Monday, July 11, 2011
Vancouver rioters outed via social media - MarketWatch
If a security camera doesn't get you, one of your friends cameras may.
It might be time to invest in companies that make masks and disguises...
It might be time to invest in companies that make masks and disguises...
Bill Mann writes about the issue at MarketWatch.com:
"Thousands of other riot pictures have shown the impressive power of social and digital media — good and bad — in tracking down the drunk knuckleheads (and probably a few G20-type anarchists) who trashed the lovely city’s downtown after the Vancouver Canucks lost their climactic hockey game. The riot aftermath is also proving what one caller on Vancouver talk-radio station CKNW caller said last week: 'The Internet is forever.'
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If you’ve been identified, rightly or wrongly, as one of the rioters in the hundreds of pictures posted online by outraged Vancouverites since the June 15 ugliness 'you could apply for a job in 20 years and all the employer has to do is Google your name. If you’re in one of those photos, you’re out of luck,' noted the Vancouver caller. Current employers of alleged and confessed rioters are also feeling the public’s wrath. (More on this"
