NekNominate: should Facebook ban the controversial drinking game?

14:00 | 12.02.2014
NekNominate: should Facebook ban the controversial drinking game?

NekNominate: should Facebook ban the controversial drinking game?

The NekNominate drinking game, thought to have originated in Australia, involves participants filming themselves completing dares and "necking" alcohol and other potentially harmful substances. The film ends with the participant nominating a friend, and then posting the video on Facebook with the hashtag 'neknominate'.

A Northern Ireland-based NekNominate webpage was shut down after complaints from the family of Jonny Byrne from Co Carlow in Ireland, who died after jumping into the river Barrow in Carlow after allegedly taking part. The deaths of Isaac Richardson, Stephen Brooks and Ross Cummins have all been allegedly linked to the NekNominate game.The game has seen people drink blood from the severed artery of a deer; alcohol mixed with dog food, olives and soy sauce; a live goldfish; and large mixes of spirits. Dares have included riding into a supermarket on a horse, stripping naked in public and jumping naked into snow.Facebook said it was reviewing videos linked to the craze but said that the posting of such material is not a breach of its rules or community standards. Its in-house rules define harmful content as organising world violence, theft, property destruction or something that directly inflicts emotional distress. A number of NekNominate pages are still active.Facebook said: "We do not tolerate content which is directly harmful, for example bullying, but controversial or offensive behaviour is not necessarily against our rules. We encourage people to report things to us which they feel break our rules so we can review and take action on a case by case basis. We also give people the ability to remove themselves from an uncomfortable conversation through tools such as untagging and blocking."(theguardian.com)ANN.Az

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