WI Crippler
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I was reading on MSNBC about the hacker group going after a Marine who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Iraq, and in the article they also went after the Boston PD after some alleged police brutality at a Occupy protest.
So I thought it would be interesting to see how people felt about this particular sort of internet vigilantism, and how they might feel it differs from someone on the street taking "justice" into their own hands.
In both cases people feel they aren't properly responded to, or the system has let someone off the hook, and they take matters into their own hands. I think its interesting that there are probably many here who would think its ok for Anon to do what they do, but would chastise someone for taking justice into their own hands by beating a pedophile into the dirt, and conversely people who would think that anonymous is in the wrong here, but if you see a person double park you have the right as a citizen to pound their face into the pavement.
Just want to see what peoples thoughts are on this cyber version of vigilantism.
So I thought it would be interesting to see how people felt about this particular sort of internet vigilantism, and how they might feel it differs from someone on the street taking "justice" into their own hands.
In both cases people feel they aren't properly responded to, or the system has let someone off the hook, and they take matters into their own hands. I think its interesting that there are probably many here who would think its ok for Anon to do what they do, but would chastise someone for taking justice into their own hands by beating a pedophile into the dirt, and conversely people who would think that anonymous is in the wrong here, but if you see a person double park you have the right as a citizen to pound their face into the pavement.
Just want to see what peoples thoughts are on this cyber version of vigilantism.