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Brady Campaign unveils app to scrub mass killers' names from media sites
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Apr 27, 2016 11:37am EDT
Brady Campaign unveils app to scrub mass killers' names from media sites
U.S. anti-gun-violence activists on Wednesday introduced a phone app designed to strip notorious mass shooters' names and photos from news stories, saying that keeping their images out of the public eye could help avert future mass killings.
The Brady Campaign said the software, called "Zero Minutes of Fame" is intended to address research that shows gunmen who carried out attacks in recent years at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, had researched and possibly drawn inspiration from prior mass shootings.
The software, a plug-in for Google's Chrome operating system, replaces the names of killers including Adam Lanza and James Holmes with the phrase "
name withheld out of respect for the victims)" and replaces their photos with an image from a Brady Campaign ad on major news outlets' websites and in Google searchers.
"Instead of rewarding killers and inspiring copycats, we should be lifting up the stories and the lives of victims, heroes, and survivors," said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign. The group is named for James Brady, who was wounded in the 1981 attempt to assassinate then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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Brady Campaign unveils app to scrub mass killers' names from media sites
U.S. anti-gun-violence activists on Wednesday introduced a phone app designed to strip notorious mass shooters' names and photos from news stories, saying that keeping their images out of the public eye could help avert future mass killings.
The Brady Campaign said the software, called "Zero Minutes of Fame" is intended to address research that shows gunmen who carried out attacks in recent years at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, had researched and possibly drawn inspiration from prior mass shootings.
The software, a plug-in for Google's Chrome operating system, replaces the names of killers including Adam Lanza and James Holmes with the phrase "
name withheld out of respect for the victims)" and replaces their photos with an image from a Brady Campaign ad on major news outlets' websites and in Google searchers.
"Instead of rewarding killers and inspiring copycats, we should be lifting up the stories and the lives of victims, heroes, and survivors," said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign. The group is named for James Brady, who was wounded in the 1981 attempt to assassinate then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guncontrol-idUSKCN0XO1XU