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The rise of the ‘digilantes’

12 pointsby fraqedover 9 years ago

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username223over 9 years ago
&gt; But digilantes are not operating in small communities, where they might have accountability to their neighbors. They are usually policing strangers, sometimes a world away, and because they are acting on a global scale, their punishments can go viral, moving far beyond the borders of the community in which the wrongdoing occurred.<p>&gt; “If I out the wrong person, I destroy his life.”<p>Humans haven&#x27;t evolved in an environment where the things they say and do are remembered forever, and are visible to every other human. However unworkable the &quot;right to be forgotten&quot; may be, it points to a very real problem.