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From the article: > She set up a Facebook page called "Chapa tu choro", or "Catch your thief", calling on others to follow her lead, and her campaign has had a
by luso_brazilian 11y ago
From the article:
> She set up a Facebook page called "Chapa tu choro", or "Catch your thief", calling on others to follow her lead, and her campaign has had a dramatic effect. More than a hundred similar pages have cropped up in rapid succession, and more are being created all the time. Many have far more brutal names than the original, adding phrases like "leave him paralysed", "cut off his hands" and "castrate him" into the title.
Next step: crowdsourced (mis)identification (a la Reddit's Boston Bombing debacle [1]) of suspects followed by the old as dirt lynching mob.
Not a good way to bring justice, technology only increases the chance of slacktivism to become deadly on those parts of the world (or any other by that matter).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/1iv343/the_boston_bombing_debacle/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/1iv343/the_...
- alwaysdoit 11y agoThere's a difference between crowdsourcing identification/discovery/information processing and crowdsourcing punishment. The former has be done for a long time through things like wanted posters, and even the police in this article support it. Turning the information over to the police and not taking the punishment into your own hands is key though. This includes harassing the person or their friends and families.
- scrollaway 11y agoMany have far more brutal names than the original, adding phrases like "leave him paralysed", "cut off his hands" and "castrate him" into the title. Does this scream punishment or identification to you?
- alwaysdoit 11y agoSorry if I was not clear. I consider threats harassment which I tried to explain are a kind of punishment that should not be taken into our own hands.