Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20180804233042/@comment-10502460-20180807040623

For this wiki, I agree you shound't include it. This wiki could potentially even get in trouble with Fandom global staff for hosting such content.

Outside this wiki....eh, I gotta say I'm conflicted on the matter myself and I think it's ultimately up to each author's conscience to decide. There's a certain movie made a few years after the Columbine shooting about a school shooting roughly resembling Columbine that is found-footage style of the two shooters filming their planning of the massacre. One of the segments shows in detail how to make pipe bombs. This segment was banned from the UK version, along with another segment where the two shooters make a powerpoint giving tips for how to plan and execute your own school shooting.

You could argue that such a film is dangerous, but my honest belief is that the news media were much more irresponsible when they chose to blow Columbine up into an international sensation (previous school shootings during the 1990s were treated more as local crime stories that happened to get some national coverage) than the director of the film was in making this film that not many people have ever seen to this day. And it's not like it's hard to find the information to make pipe bombs outside of that movie.

If anything I think true crime shows are more ethically dubious than fictional murder stories. My suspicion is that most violent criminals get their inspiration and ideas from actual crimes rather than fiction, and while a movie like "Zero Day" can have redeeming value in the insights it gives to events such as mass shootings, I really don't think most true crime shows have any redeeming value.