The Cartoon from bLaugh draws a picture that seems quite amusing at first, but when you take a little step backwards and really get the whole picture, and put it in a new context, it suddenly ain't that amusing anymore. I resently read that some guy taped a scene of Star Wars, alone at his school, (with himself as the only caracter) which included some lightswordfighting. His only mistake was that he forgot the tape in the camera, and unfortunately for him some other found it and posted it on the Internet. The take (known as 'The Star Wars kid') became very popular and has, as I resently read in ITavisen, now been downloaded and watched over 900 million times. Talk about being marked for life. This poor kid, maybe a bit naive, made one mistake and the mistake is now widespread over the net. It's nothing he can do about it but hope it will blow over (though, i may take awhile).
That's one episode. Another is this poor kid who picked his nose and then ate it, while being recorded. Same here, posted on the net.
Can anyone feel safe? Can it happen to anyone? In the right circumstances, yeah, sure, but i have a little feeling that this might happen more often to those who normally are victims of mobs. Those who can not stand up for themselves, and those who ends up being outsiders in our community. Now they might have even less chance to be included.
The number of tools and ways you can record anything with and the methods you the can post it onto the net are great. The greater the number, the greater the chance for being recorded yourself are increased. We see it all the time. Sometimes it reveales something to the purpose of goodness for the rest of us, but other times it reveales something that can really hurt the innocent part, which also might be the victim. There is a line between those two, which I feel resently has been whiped out, and this is not good. There aught to be shed some light into this matter, and some regulations has to be made to bring back this line so that the number of victims, such as i've decribed here, can be limited to a minimum.
Anyway, this is my opinion.
