What's nice about Facebook Live (and Periscope) is that in tense situations, the authorities could confiscate the phone but the video has already been sent server side, so there's no way to suppress the footage. With the recent streamed shooting in Minnesota, transparency into such events has just been opened up a little more for all of us.

While a lot of the HN crowd hates on Facebook, the Minnesota shooting and Dallas shooting have been eye opening and it's easy to see streaming video as the next great equalizer.

Obviously Facebook could start suppressing contentious video, but so far they've seemed to be pretty liberal and that's probably a separate issue. At least the technology is in place so that people can open up to the possibilities and other parallel platforms can be built if Facebook drops the ball on content policy.