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[Ashtoreth]

Freedom of speech? As in, freedom to post other people's corpses online for entertainment purposes?
C'mon now.

Again:
- It wasn't against the forum rules.
- No one forced you to watch it; no one interfered with your freedom.

As Bridge already pointed out, things like the videos and images that were posted in the Disturbingness Collection thread can be seen in news broadcasts and news websites around the world on a daily basis. I've seen videos of corpses on news websites such as CNN and CBS, for example.
A "viewer discretion advised" warning is always shown beforehand, so if the viewers decide to watch the content anyway and then feel extremely shocked and offended, well, it's their own fault.

And since you seem to assume that people only watch potentially disturbing content such as corpses for "entertainment purposes", I would like to explain the reasons behind my interest in this kind of content.

Since I was a teenager I've always been interested in the study of death and its causes - thanatology, forensic pathology, etc. In fact, in 2004 I even started a degree programme to become a pathologist assistant, but I had to drop out due to personal reasons.
So, seeing videos of autopsies and pictures of dead bodies became a completely natural thing to me, no matter what the condition of the cadavers is, and even when they're babies or children. I tend to look at it from an analytical point of view, not out of morbid curiosity or because it's "entertaining".
I've also had my share of dead bodies in real life: my grandmother and my aunt died in my house, and I actually witnessed my aunt die in front of me.

So please understand that, for some of us, death is not entertaining or disturbing; it's just reality, as cold as it might sound. All living things eventually die, and to me seeing images of human corpses is not any more "disturbing" than seeing images of animal carcasses on a National Geographic documentary.