Comment – Marco Simoncelli (1987 – 2011)

Brilliant comment!
I totally concur with your thought’s on the video’s being put up by sad media groups who will do anything to sell their comic’s! It’s inconsiderate to Paolo, Rosella, and Kate his partner. and all of Marco’s family.
To know that your son, or partners death is being replayed over and over for some sicko’s makes me feel ill.
R.I.P Super Sic. We will miss you,

Mike, In keeping our video site (SkiddPlayer) up to date, we browse through YouTube in case anything has slipped by our main content discovery algorithm. In the first few days after Malaysia, the top 60 most watched videos (worldwide) included nearly ’50′ videos of the same clip showing the crash. It was a feeding frenzy and one of the worst illustrations of what a moral vacuum YouTube has become.

How sick do you have to be to try and exploit a tragedy like this? It’s bad enough that people feel the need to watch the accident, but they were downloading the same video and uploading it to their profiles, just to earn the ‘kudos’ for running it on their own channel.

I was watching the race live when it happened, and I will never watch that moment again. What really brought the loss of Marco home to me, was seeing photos of him (pre-Afro), as a teenager having fun with his friends – he really did seem to be a genuinely lovely bloke.

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