8 Awesome Cases of Internet Vigilantism
Internet Vigilantism
By Ian Fortey March 23, 2009
Yet another unintended side effect of the web has been the birth of the Internet lynch mob. Now, everything from child abuse to bad customer service can get the online masses whipped into a frenzy of Old Testament-style vengeance.
Whether this is good, bad, or downright terrifying, we’ll let you be the judge.
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These lynch mobs can destroy a persons life, but unlike Gang Stalking, these campaigns are usually very swift and very overt, the two should not be mistaken, but if you don’t believe that strangers would stalk a complete stranger, then you are not familiar with these mobs. They happen in many places.
China= Human Flesh Search Engine
Korea= Cyber Violence
America= Internet Vigilantism
It’s all the same thing, and it’s where society has come, but to be honest society has always been like this. You can go back in history and see that these types of frenzied behavior are nothing new.
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gangstalking Reply:
October 4th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
@gangstalking,
http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/politics/search-and-destroy-engines
It has been suggested that this recent rise in online vigilantism was unique to China, partially because so many involved are educated but underemployed. For thousands of years, China was the source of social innovations, and with the world’s biggest crowds and a new focus on crowdsourcing “justice”; China may again have generated a civilization-wide advance in governance. It is becoming apparent that the idea virus has scaled the Chinese Wall to move, pitchforks and torches held aloft, across the oceans to infect other netizens, including those in the United States.
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Just wait ’til someone turns an Internet lynch mob on an innocent person as a prank.
For example, in that kitten crushing video. They found out the identity of someone who’d bought shoes just like that on eBay, and there was identifying information in the background of the video confirming her location.
Suppose that woman had bought the shoes for real, and was a Targeted Individual. Then a perp decided to set her up by obtaining the exact same shoes, filming herself crushing the kitten, with stuff in the background identifying her apartment as that woman’s apartment. Perps online could draw attention to the video and orchestrate the campaign of terror.
That sort of thing would be incredibly easy to set up (by gang stalking standards), the anonymous online mob would do most of the dirty work, and it’s definitely in the moral range of perps to crush a kitten to frame someone.
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gangstalking Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
You are fully correct. That or try to set them up in other ways. It’s Cointelpro tactics all over again. Good points.
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