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On the one hand, this is a beautiful (but depressing) story about humans standing up for each other. On the other hand, this is clearly propaganda from the BBC
by gnarlouse 8mo ago
On the one hand, this is a beautiful (but depressing) story about humans standing up for each other.
On the other hand, this is clearly propaganda from the BBC to push police state functionality on the UK population by pre-justifying it. "See what happens? Never mind the part about it taking six years. Let us see everything in your fucking lives, you twats."
- tr888 8mo agoI have literally no idea how you've ended up at that conclusion from the article!
- butlike 8mo agoSame. In a world where police agents are committing atrocities, a world where ICE agents are running amok, it's nice to hear about some actual good that comes from the police force
- tqi 8mo agoPlus a chance to dunk on their biggest competitor for ad revenue and clicks (Facebook)
- lambdaone 8mo agoNone of this required a police state. Just people working together to cross-correlate information in the way that you would expect to be able to do in an open society. What wrong do you think was done here? What would you prefer to be different?
- NoGravitas 8mo agoNothing wrong was done by the police here -- it's all good old-fashioned detective work. But they wanted to have Facebook use facial recognition to find the victim among all the photographs on Facebook. And that actually would have gotten them results faster, because finding the identity of the victim was enough to break the case, in the end. But it also would have been a very bad precedent in terms of surveillance.
- gnarlouse 8mo agoThat is fair, I’m out of line.
- bazmattaz 8mo agoI found it quite depressing to read. This guy spent so much time to put just one offender behind bars but the are likely hundreds of thousands out there. So sad