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Sunil Tripathi (or his parents) would do well to take legal action against Reddit for facilitating this garbage, if the final legal reports support the assessment that Sunil was not involved.
Didn't Reddit make a big show of banning doxxing a while back? Super effective. There should be multiple lawsuits here.
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It's nothing to do with the free internet. Accusing someone of murder with absolutely no proof could be considered libel. Edi: I wasn't accusing Reddit of libel. It's just a platform. The individuals who posted the comments would be the ones committing libel.
It might be libel in the U.K., but the standard for such is a bit higher in the U.S. Which is probably a good thing, on the whole, as otherwise we'd have had to destroy the Internet ten years ago based on its usage as a libel-launching platform.
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To be fair though, 90% of reddit is the "reddit hivemind".
Yes, this seems to be the nature of communities both online and offline. A community becomes known for something like hipsters in Brooklyn, cat memes in Reddit, or motherhood paraphernalia in Pinterest. More people of the demographic with the same mindset join and stay, whereas everyone else feel unwelcome and gradually leave.
The problem is that redditors are your average everyday people. Some people don't understand that "possible suspect" doesn't mean "this guy is a terrorist, get him". This mentality is not just reddit. It exist in our country already. Each time a suspect is pictured on TV, they already guilty in the minds of many viewers. It seems that most people don't understand our "innocent until proven guilty" justice system.
I thought 'Racist Where's Waldo' is a very good 3 word summary
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I'm honestly surprised to see this opinion on HN, the defender of the free Internet. Should the family also take legal action against the ISPs of the Reddit users involved, simply for "facilitating" this garbage?
It's nothing to do with the free internet. Accusing someone of murder with absolutely no proof could be considered libel. Edi: I wasn't accusing Reddit of libel. It's just a platform. The individuals who posted the comments would be the ones committing libel.
Making that distinction may be hard for fossilized media and politicians, but it should come natural to anybody on HN.
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I'm honestly surprised to see this opinion on HN, the defender of the free Internet. Should the family also take legal action against the ISPs of the Reddit users involved, simply for "facilitating" this garbage?
It's nothing to do with the free internet. Accusing someone of murder with absolutely no proof could be considered libel. Edi: I wasn't accusing Reddit of libel. It's just a platform. The individuals who posted the comments would be the ones committing libel.
Sunil Tripathi (or his parents) would do well to take legal action against Reddit for facilitating this garbage, if the final legal reports support the assessment that Sunil was not involved.
Didn't Reddit make a big show of banning doxxing a while back? Super effective. There should be multiple lawsuits here.
I have a hard time finding the collective responsibility of "the internet" materially different from "the media".