RandomName479
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I’m a few years late to the “party” but since the Dutch dude has been getting some CBC press lately (not much - I read the first article today and his trial started at the beg of June) I thought I would come here and read the thread. I didn’t follow the Amanda Todd story at the time - I did see her video and knew she had been tormented online and subsequently committed suicide. I was horrified. But thought that was the end of the story. I’m now really interested to see how “they got it wrong” bc that will most likely be part of AC’a defense.Yeah, I wondered. So within 30 seconds of digging, I found out why.
Anonymous appears to have got it wrong.
While the idea of faceless masses of vigilantes achieving what the police etc cannot is truly appealing (and I have personally cheered a couple of their campaigns on), it should be remembered that Anonymous "is legion" -- ie, comprised of a really large and eclectic bunch of people on the internet, the majority of whom do not actually know each other from soap.
And just as it is in any crowd made of loosely connected hordes of people, some are a whole lot smarter than others.
This said, outing a predator isn't a bad thing to do. If he really is one. They got that bit right, anyway.
And I hope the posters blaming Amanda’s ability to access the internet instead of the perpetrator’s actions as the cause of this give their heads a huge bleeping shake. That’s like blaming a woman for being raped bc she wore a short skirt. The blame falls solely on the person manipulating and victimizing a CHILD.