Morbid Daily

Morbid Daily as I've written about already in this blog is a concept for a mobile app that would be dedicated to rehashing pasted atrocities that have occurred during human history. Along with the history it would also cover ongoing events throughout the world. It would serve as a platform for remembering the past and aiding the present. Throughout my research I have been looking at Noam Chomsky and his work of Media manipulating the masses this was major inspiration. This app would be dedication to conveying unaltered information.  Many inhuman acts have been overlooked or over all forgotten over the course of human history this app would hope to change that.

The app would look like any other news feed with events that had occurred that day. Users would then have the option of clicking on said events and opening a more detailed view. There would be several tabs including one with the historical account, one where victims or relatives of victims could retell their story, a comments section where discussions could take place. New material would be user contributed but would be moderated first a team of historians then as time progresses trusted user moderation. The app would start with a pool of stories nearly each day of the year and would later be user contributed but would be moderated before upload. 

As well as past events there would be a part of the app dedicated to ongoing events called Morbid Now which would be a part of Morbid Daily. The app would work as a source of information and a place discussion. Morbid Now would be a member unique feature that would also serve as a method of recording and documenting ongoing events. Morbid Now would have the ability to record and automatically send the video to the users account and in certain circumstances when enabled to Morbid's database for review by a dedicated team. In areas where internet access is unreliable of nonexistent users can upload an video via MMS with message subject their specific account number. Though it wouldn’t be as streamlined because the inability to instantly upload when the video finishes recording but still an feature I see being used. If the video entailed evidence of wrong doing would be uploaded onto the ongoing event site and the relative authorities for further evaluation. The ability to do so in a world were increasingly people have access to smartphones and mobile internet in my opinion will be very useful to fight attempted sensor ship. The ability to almost instantly upload a video after recording in order to ensure to tampering or destruction of evidence is key in a modern world. I predict that this app with mostly be used by lowkey jpurnalists to get their story accross Because not always the story they want to say is published but rather put out of context or ccensored by the interests of the publisher. 

    


   Examples

East Timor

East Timor was then invaded by Indonesia shortly after Portugal abruptly left, in 1975. This was the day after U.S. President Ford's visit to Indonesia, with what people have suspected as being a "green light" to invade. At that time, Indonesia had military, economic and political support from countries such as UK, USA and Australia, for various reasons including the oil and gas reserves, a strategic location, various trade and cheap labor related interests. 200,000 people are said to have been killed since 1975 one third of the entire East Timorese population.

                                                  

Soviet Union and Chechens 

On February 23, 1944, the entire population of Chechens and Ingush were ordered to local party buildings where they were informed they were being deported for helping the Germans. Anyone who could not be transported for some reason was to be shot immediately. In one such instance, 700 people were locked in a barn that was burned to the ground. Experts believe up to 50 percent of the Chechen population died during what is commonly referred to as “Operation Lentil.”

Nigeria 1960

One of the largest groups in the area, the Igbo, decided to secede from Nigeria and form the Republic of Biafra. The Nigerian government immediately launched a campaign to retake the oil-rich breakaway region. From 1967, when the Republic of Biafra was formed, to late 1968, a vicious civil war raged. The Nigerian government did everything they could to crush the fledgling nation. They even blocked food and water from getting into Biafra, contributing to the nearly 3 million lives lost in the civil war. Almost 5,000 died each day, most of them of Igbo descent.