But the two young men pictured were not the bombers. At one point, Reddit sleuths even set their sights on a student from Brown University, about 60 miles away in Providence, R.I., who was missing. He had nothing to do with the bombing; he had committed suicide.
I think it's really important to note that people can really interfere with police investigations and cause chaos in the lives of the people they point the finger at.
“People went berserk,” Ms. Coleman said. “That, to me, was this interesting turning point where it showed the general public would be willing to jump into the fray.”
I think when people are angry, that makes them willing to commit more extreme acts than they might otherwise not do.
The problem, of course, was that she was telling a story about two people who had no idea they’d been cast as leads in a riveting story for thousands of strangers.
If you don't take precautions in protecting people's identity, then you can inadvertently turn them into celebrities. This is not fair to the people involved.
This is the problem with ex post facto consent being used to justify these sorts of invasions. What if it’s not given? The world floods into your life anyway. What had been private is now uncontrollably crowdsourced. Your consent becomes a trifling detail in a story about you that suddenly belongs to everyone else.
I think that many people on the web don't consider privacy, because what're taking pictures or videos of is so interesting. If these people were to think about privacy first, that could change things.
Over the years, the ACLU has represented or defended individuals engaged in some truly offensive speech. We have defended the speech rights of communists, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, accused terrorists, pornographers, anti-LGBT activists, and flag burners. That’s because the defense of freedom of speech is most necessary when the message is one most people find repulsive. Constitutional rights must apply to even the most unpopular groups if they’re going to be preserved for everyone.
This is similar to what Chomsky said, and I believe it's an important point.
the Noam Chomsky award for adhering openly to the principle that free speech protects ideas that others find unpleasant even loathsome.
I've never heard it described in quite this way, but it makes sense.
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This is sad and shocking, but not really.
Go up to the “omnibar” Strip off everything after the domain name, type wikipedia and press enter This generates a Google search for that URL with the Wikipedia page at the top Click that link, then check in the sidebar that the URL matches. Forty-nine out of fifty times it will. The fiftieth time you may have some work to do.
This is a useful tip. Wikipedia is a very trustworthy website. I use alexa.com to check out websites.
Cultural theory is a way of breaking down a culture by looking at institutions. Critical race theory is a set of ideas that we use to explain the institution of race. While race is not real — meaning it does not occur naturally in our society — it has real implications.
From Medium