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Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video
New submitter edanto writes "A young Irish man wrongly accused of jumping from a taxi without paying the fare has secured a judgement from an Irish court ordering the video removed from the entire Internet. Experts from Google, Youtube, Facebook, and others must tell the court in two weeks if this is technically possible. The thing is, the video is accurate, it is only a comment that wrongly identified Eoin McKeogh as the fare-jumper in the video that is inaccurate. It's not clear if the judge has made any orders about the comment."
Internet vigilantism can't be nipped as long as "tough on crime" remains popular, since it's the same thing in different guise: people like letting their sadistic impulses out every now and then, and if they can pretend they're doing it for the sake of justice it's all the more enjoyable.
Liberal bullshit gets +4 Insightful on Slashdot. Maybe the people who want to be tough on crime actually are pissed off about being victims of crime? Just the other day my neighbor had something stolen from his property. If you're a thief you shouldn't be left to wander about society. Tough on crime means "lock the fuckers up", not lynch mob them.
Lock that theif up, they shouldnt be left to wander about society.
Please do, and put the kid in a social welfare program. Probably won't be doing any worse than with the losers he's with.
Especailly when they are taking money out of the hands of people who dont have enough money
Maybe if you owned a store and tried running it yourself you wouldn't be so cavalier about people stealing shit from you. Until then it's always some rich asshole who can afford to have their shit stolen. In reality, these stores are often run by local owners and barely getting by.
disrespecting the government by not appreciating what aid we give them
You don't need to steal food to get fed in this country.
Down with the Liberals trying to balance out what they claim to be a shit hole of greed and narrowmindedness!
Give up your shit to every fucker that decides he wants what somebody else has.