Lets not forget Colin Stagg - a man whose only crime was to be 'a bit of a weird loner' - whose life was utterly ruined based on nothing more than the suspicion of coppers and a few neighbours
Lets not forget Colin Stagg - a man whose only crime was to be 'a bit of a weird loner' - whose life was utterly ruined based on nothing more than the suspicion of coppers and a few neighbours
and the guy (I found his name, but would rather not repeat it), in the Ipswich serial killers case who was arrested, and eventually released. he had his name and social media pics and details splashed all over the internet
from what i can gather they tried bombing MIT last night but were disturbed by a college policeman who they subsequently killed and fled. Crazy stuff coming out of boston.
Can't be sure it's him in the first place but he hadn't tweeted since December, then retweets someone 20 minutes ago. His past tweets are being deleted too. Been hacked by the looks of it, by someone trying to be funny.
Whats going on at the moment? I'm listening to the Boston PD radio.. Something about an army Humvee being stood down, one of the robots (EOD?) not being required anymore and so on. Sounds like they've just carried out a controlled explosion or something "it's just splinters.. the rest of it is just splinters".
Oh lol, their escorting a 'sandwich truck' 'down to the location'.
Yeah, "EOD command" is now talking. Given confirmation it's safe to approach the device... What device? The news makes it sounds like nothing is going on!
I only wanted to find out if they had caught the guy yet. I'll take that as a no. Pretty surprising that there's nothing on Sky/BBC News about the current developments - seems like they may have him pretty soon.
How anyone who can honestly think it is fine to post pictures of innocent people and say they are suspects in any crime is ok is wrong and needs to step back evaluate and accept their error
How anyone who can honestly think it is fine to post pictures of innocent people and say they are suspects in any crime is ok is wrong and needs to step back evaluate and accept their error
Wow.. Been away for the last few hours. Just got back in. So many lame arguments and sanctimonious requests for me to 'step back and evaluate'.
Comparing social media's efforts to identify the terrorist's who killed and maimed people with the Mccann case and other cases going back over the last 10 years is just silly. And those types of 'witch hunts' have been going on in those types of situations long before the advent of social media.
I saw the picture of the boy who turned out to be an innocent Morrocan student. I saw other pictures where the person looked very similar to one of the suspects the police have eventually identified. What if someone working in a hardware store saw some of these pictures and recognised a person as someone he sold a pressure cooker to in the last month or so? If the pictures had just been sent to the police that person would never see the picture unless the police publish every single photo they receive.
The Moroccan student is an innocent victim. All the people who had their picture posted on the internet bacause they were carrying a black rucksack are innocent victims. Their lives will very quickly get back to normal (just like the lives of many innocent muslims living in New York after 9/11). If there are reports that they become victims of vigilente groups or the police come out and explain how the publishing of the pictures on the internet hindered their hunt for the suspects I would reconsider my view on the power and proper use of social media in the fight against terrorism.
In the meantime I give thanks that I don't live in China or North Korea and feel safer in the knowledge that the internet and social media makes it that much harder for forces of evil to move freely amongst us undetected.
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Utter scumbags
Can't be sure it's him in the first place but he hadn't tweeted since December, then retweets someone 20 minutes ago. His past tweets are being deleted too. Been hacked by the looks of it, by someone trying to be funny.
a ghost town
This is just bizarre, it really feels like you're watching a telly programme.
Oh lol, their escorting a 'sandwich truck' 'down to the location'.
I only wanted to find out if they had caught the guy yet. I'll take that as a no. Pretty surprising that there's nothing on Sky/BBC News about the current developments - seems like they may have him pretty soon.
He could see him when he done it
Comparing social media's efforts to identify the terrorist's who killed and maimed people with the Mccann case and other cases going back over the last 10 years is just silly. And those types of 'witch hunts' have been going on in those types of situations long before the advent of social media.
I saw the picture of the boy who turned out to be an innocent Morrocan student. I saw other pictures where the person looked very similar to one of the suspects the police have eventually identified. What if someone working in a hardware store saw some of these pictures and recognised a person as someone he sold a pressure cooker to in the last month or so? If the pictures had just been sent to the police that person would never see the picture unless the police publish every single photo they receive.
The Moroccan student is an innocent victim. All the people who had their picture posted on the internet bacause they were carrying a black rucksack are innocent victims. Their lives will very quickly get back to normal (just like the lives of many innocent muslims living in New York after 9/11). If there are reports that they become victims of vigilente groups or the police come out and explain how the publishing of the pictures on the internet hindered their hunt for the suspects I would reconsider my view on the power and proper use of social media in the fight against terrorism.
In the meantime I give thanks that I don't live in China or North Korea and feel safer in the knowledge that the internet and social media makes it that much harder for forces of evil to move freely amongst us undetected.
Would that be ok no it wouldn't
What if a family member full of rage saw him and beat him with in an inch
Your case is flawed it is a dangerous and stupid thing to do