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© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Facebook rape stirs questions about witnessing crimes online
By MICHAEL TARM CHICAGO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Ron Barnes
jail all the watchers as accompanists they are very easy found through their computers program's registration eg windows
lostrune2
Depends if there's legal ground on their locality - if there's a law requiring them to help, even as mere bystanders who just happenstance on a crime
If they somehow aided and abetted, that's another story
theFu
Online viewers might think this was a stunt - some sort of viral marketing. How would anyone watching know that a real crime is being committed? Commercials with bad taste are shown all the time.
Reporting a false crime is also a criminal offense across the USA.
katsu78
As a general principle, what happens online should not be treated as different from what happens offline. The Internet is a tool for extending our ability to communicate - it's not some kind of secret fluffy alternate dimension where evil behavior somehow doesn't count.
WA4TKG
Welcome to Chicago. Did you bring your Level IV Plates ?
Peter Payne
Does no one know that Kitty Genovese is largely revealed to be an after-the-fact error that became legendary, so everyone believed it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
toshiko
Crime of encouraging porno and embarrass them in public by revealing their identities on national news ?