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People need to take their leads to the police... Sure the police could have an app for that, but just because you have extra energy is not a excuse to destroy
by bargl 14y ago
People need to take their leads to the police... Sure the police could have an app for that, but just because you have extra energy is not a excuse to destroy peoples lives by falsely accusing them of this sort of crime.
- ck2 14y agoI do wonder though how different this thread would be if "the internet" actually found the right person. Anyway, for now places like reddit and 4chan have far less influence than say CNN or Daily News so any damage they cause is far less. A good crowdsourcing app would maybe have one-way data to "authorities" and not allow people to "gang up" on any individual.
- tking8924 14y agoTo be honest, it may be a good thing that the internet didn't find the right person in this case, because I think the reaction would have been different and may have ended up reinforcing this behaviour in the future. As it is, we have been able to take this a lesson on the power of such internet outlets with hopefully far fewer "casualties" than there could have been.
- bargl 14y agoAgreed, some of the major pages in reddit get a lot of traffic, but that sort of subreddit doesn't get the viewership. I too am glad that they didn't get the right guy, that would have gave some justification to this kind of behavior. I do like the one-way data idea. That would be awesome.