tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post7365492345802549151..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: How to prevent murder?RevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-70341322872067601352014-11-26T22:02:45.367+00:002014-11-26T22:02:45.367+00:00The level of incompetence is staggering. But anoth...The level of incompetence is staggering. But another angle:<br /><br />Imagine for a moment that every ISP &/or Social Media Platform was forced and bound by law to report every crime. (Imagine there was a special hashtag all criminals were forced to use - they're muggers and rapists, they'd not skip labelling their confessions, surely?)<br /><br />Anyway, think for one second how many death threats, rape threats and worse are fitted off over Twitter alone every single day. A look at the single hashtag for GamerGate revealed hundreds of 'threats of crime' & worse. <br /><br />That firehose steam of abuse, Sent to even the FBI would mask the (at the upper end) 1 in a thousand real actual events that happened in the physical world! <br /><br />It would be a DDOS attack on crime fighting the likes of which has never been seen. <br /><br />So imagine that covered everything, everywhere online. And using the extremely loose definition of 'terrorism' used when it suits, that would be an unmanageable stream. <br /><br />I suspect that if MI5 simply tried to watch every 'terrorist video' on YouTube, they would run out of manpower. Nigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570349252948836345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-70670154144568343032014-11-26T10:28:39.254+00:002014-11-26T10:28:39.254+00:00I agree, but if someone reported it to Facebook, w...I agree, but if someone reported it to Facebook, why didn't that someone also report it to the police? I certainly would, having taken plenty of screenshots.<br /><br />Where I have a problem is when legislation compels a private individual or business to monitor the general public's communications for evidence of conspiracy. <br /><br />What if this conversation had happened in a pub: would we now be demanding that landlords eavesdrop on all conversations? Of course not, but we would expect anyone in the pub that overheard such an exchange to do the right thing (including the landlord).DougMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242392819960202688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-63084673183999558572014-11-26T09:44:29.314+00:002014-11-26T09:44:29.314+00:00I was reading this morning that facebook had close...I was reading this morning that facebook had closed the account for discussion of terrorist related activity after it had been reported to them. <br /><br />Indiscriminate monitoring of posts makes me mad, but if this is the case then it's perhaps not so unreasonable to have expected them to report something that they've been made aware of and taken their own action on? it's not quite the same thing.John Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156658352563482506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-7007028700487009092014-11-25T17:30:20.347+00:002014-11-25T17:30:20.347+00:00The comment from Keith Vaz is gold:
"We can&...The comment from Keith Vaz is gold:<br /><br />"We can't expect the government to sit there and be monitoring this all the time," he told BBC News. "The best people to do this are the providers themselves."DougMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242392819960202688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-27599425266089276022014-11-25T15:52:11.210+00:002014-11-25T15:52:11.210+00:00The sooner the internet kills off newspapers compl...The sooner the internet kills off newspapers completely the better, given the low standard of journalism in them.Owen Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890951742186614705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-88984414355147163962014-11-25T12:24:59.631+00:002014-11-25T12:24:59.631+00:00Some of the way in which the newspapers and big me...Some of the way in which the newspapers and big media empires have explained and categorised issues surrounding both this and the related Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill is utterly ridiculous. The way they write it.. my blood boils.MarkJ_ISPreview.co.ukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06715455223843436247noreply@blogger.com