Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice"

destinyland writes "The Chinese credit the 'human flesh search engine' for successfully locating 'the kitten killer of Hangzhou' from clues in her online video. But in February, the same force identified a teenage cat-abuser in Oklahoma — within 24 hours of his video's appearance on YouTube. 'Netizens are the new Jack Bauer,' argues one science writer, and with three billion potential detectives, 'attempts to hide will only add thrill to the chase.' But China's vigilantes ultimately turned their attention to China's Internet Propaganda Office, bypassing censorship of a director's personal information using social networks, including Twitter. The author suggests there's a new principle emerging in the online world: 'The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.'"

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Ahh the PC, everyone is a pretty rainbow side!

[S7urm]

Everything that you hold dear, be it your (obviously higher than mine) morality, or your ideology, or what have you, was given to you, fought for in your absense, and kept safe by, people that....and I know it isn't "okay" anymore to say this, FOUGHT for that right. You can argue details until you turn blue in the face, but bare bones logical thought at ANY level has ALWAYS been "I think that is bad enough to stop, I will attempt to reason with the provocatur of said bad event, and if, through diplomacy I can affect a positive outcome than great!, but if something BAD happens, and continues to be bad, and worse, and horrible, then I will stop it by force if words are of no avail"

So go ahead, trasport yourself back to the 30's and be a pacifist, and think that through your slanted PC ideology you in some way impact anyone's beleif that it is sometimes OK to fight for what you hold dear, than know I pity you.

You're a coward, and I would find myself at a loss (though it would thankfully never happen) to know you, because if you wouldn't defend yourself, or your family, or your friends, than you are truly a sad pathetic......

wait I'm on Slashdot

carry on.