Should the U.S. follow New Zealands example of blurring a mass shooters face whenever he’s in court?

I think so. We publicize mass murderers too damn much by showing their face on camera and posting it everywhere. It makes copycats eager to seek that level of attention as well.

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Faust76 · 46-50, M

It's more about privacy of a "suspect" who hasn't been found guilty yet, I believe. Besides of that, his face has been plastered everywhere, I think the blurring in this case is just adding notoriety; it's not like people seeing his *face* would change anything, everybody knows WHO he is now.

If he cared he would've put his face on the live feed of his shooting, but he purposefully kept himself out of it and made it first-person so that people so inclined can have fantasies of THEMSELVES in his place. The blurring of his face in court only completes that fantasy.