http://www.futureconscience.com/tweetivism-social-justice-or-internet-lynch-mob/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tweetivism-social-justice-or-internet-lynch-mob Futurist Blog: What do we want to be? Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.futureconscience.com/tweetivism-social-justice-or-internet-lynch-mob/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Nalliah Thayabharan Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:37:00 +0000 http://www.futureconscience.com/?p=1059#comment-325 In a society where a reference check begins with an online search, the internet justice has given many people a life sentence since the viral forms of social justice are completely uncontrollable. Internet justice, unlike the government justice system, is swift and severe—and not necessarily right or fair.  There is a reason, however slow and unwieldy, that the administration of justice has been delegated to the government.  Welcome to the new digitally connected world.  In a society where a reference check begins with an online search, the internet justice has given many people a life sentence since the viral forms of social justice are completely uncontrollable. Internet justice, unlike the government justice system, is swift and severe—and not necessarily right or fair. 
There is a reason, however slow and unwieldy, that the administration of justice has been delegated to the government. 
Welcome to the new digitally connected world. 

]]> http://www.futureconscience.com/tweetivism-social-justice-or-internet-lynch-mob/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Planner Reads » Blog Archive » Washington Post Google Maps Tracking Rapist Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:20:46 +0000 http://www.futureconscience.com/?p=1059#comment-140 [...] Many of Google’s tools are already being used by police and citizens alike to solve crimes–most notably Earth, Street View, and Maps–and they’re certainly a staple of online news sources. However, the WaPo stopped short of allowing its readers to add their own input to the maps and urged anyone with additional information to contact the relevant police forces, wary, perhaps, of how the Internet can be policed by vigilantes–right or wrong. [...] [...] Many of Google’s tools are already being used by police and citizens alike to solve crimes–most notably Earth, Street View, and Maps–and they’re certainly a staple of online news sources. However, the WaPo stopped short of allowing its readers to add their own input to the maps and urged anyone with additional information to contact the relevant police forces, wary, perhaps, of how the Internet can be policed by vigilantes–right or wrong. [...]

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