Hey Lynn, always good to hear from you.

I'm not a lawyer but I to my understanding of the law (Canadian and American), the definition of a "snuff film" is a film that is created without the aid of special effects depicting a murder, made with the intention of (obviously illegal) commercial purposes. Furthermore, in the event of such, it is the original creator that is at fault. The owner of this site neither creates these films (not to mention the site has a whole bunch of other stuff) and obviously runs the site out of interest rather than commercial purposes. Once again, until this site is tried under the obscenity law, I don't think what he's doing is illegal. I don't know about the legal status of the distribution of these things but I'm quite sure he's not doing anything that's out and out illegal, although the family is well within their right to sue..

The world's a mess Lynn and you have a kind heart so I understand why a lot of this is just downright baffling. There are so many theories under various studies such as sociology and philosophy to see why people are so screwed up now days, and it seems like no one quite understands it although people recognize several obvious factors. Personally being the cynic I am, I think people have always been like this, although admittedly perhaps we're looking at a somewhat more soulless world in the modern day, and it's simply the kind of access to media we have now days that makes it more transparent. Otherwise history has shown that relatively normal people are capable of extreme cruelty and immoral acts.

Ultimately, I disagree with the actions being taken in the video but I still belief in bare minimal censorship. If we learn how to censor the bad, we face the problems of "bad" being subjective and a general censorship screw up, and wouldn't you prefer a world where people can see so much that they can recognize good and bad for themselves? We must be able to see the bad in order to understand the good, and at the end of the day knowledge is knowledge.