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Public shaming for God and country | By Mark Morford
That limp hacker imp who swiped all those female celebrity photos from private iCloud accounts, then gloated about it all over the Net and, in so doing, promoted a particularly insidious type of ideological rape of women?
I’d be OK if that guy were publicly shamed. I’d be fine with hearing that, after a bit of jail time, his (or their) photo was plastered all over Facebook, a red circle of “do not date” slashed across his face, a portion of his personal appendages compared, unfavorably, to raisins.
Does that sound cruel? Inhumane? I’m not so sure.
How about the scolds? The trolls? The savage bullies and malicious homophobes who stalk and threaten writers, gays, women all over the Net, now more than ever? Would public shaming of the nastiest and most potentially violent among them do any good?
I’d be OK if that guy were publicly shamed. I’d be fine with hearing that, after a bit of jail time, his (or their) photo was plastered all over Facebook, a red circle of “do not date” slashed across his face, a portion of his personal appendages compared, unfavorably, to raisins.
Does that sound cruel? Inhumane? I’m not so sure.
How about the scolds? The trolls? The savage bullies and malicious homophobes who stalk and threaten writers, gays, women all over the Net, now more than ever? Would public shaming of the nastiest and most potentially violent among them do any good?
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/09/09/public-shaming-for-god-and-country/
