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>a comment with a picture of some random (again, person of color...) walking down the street from a Nest cam asking, "Did you see anyone like this? My bike was
by bilbo0s 8y ago
>a comment with a picture of some random (again, person of color...) walking down the street from a Nest cam asking, "Did you see anyone like this? My bike was stolen too."...
This is a real problem. People are having their lives impacted in a materially negative fashion because of actions like this. Not just minorities either. Recently a female police officer walked into the home of a random black guy and blew him away for no reason. (Well, no good reason.) Not 24 hours later a picture of a white female, who had nothing to do with the shooting mind you, was being circulated around the world as being the shooter. The woman had done nothing more than go to work at a place where the unfortunate victim also worked.
Seneca said that a lie can travel the world before the truth can even get its shoes on. So this proclivity towards making much ado about nothing has been going on for a long long time if it's something that Seneca spent time observing. Given that reality, it has to be conceded that it's not necessarily because of these companies that your average drama king or queen is out pointing a finger at some random black guy minding his own business. But as far as low life corporate ethics go, these companies probably rank right up there with other pond scum of the internet age, like location "information brokers" and such.
- wallace_f 8y ago>Seneca said that a lie can travel the world before the truth can even get its shoes on [...] not necessarily because of these companies that your average drama king or queen is out pointing a finger That's a good comment. I agree with you. People have been toxic and irrational since forever, but perhaps our ability to reflect on these behaviors at arm's length on the internet is actually a good thing.