
Exposing Racists and Getting Them Fired
The complexity of regulating the online world has left a vacuum for people to take moral policing into their own hands. Have online vigilantes gone too far?
We meet the man in Texas whose racist Facebook posts inspired a whole community to get him fired. Racists Getting Fired and Getting Racists Fired! is the name of a blog that does exactly what it says on the tin. People are encouraged to find and share incidents of racism online - from memes to tweets to quotes - and expose the apparent racists. The community are then encouraged to call, and email the racists employer until they are fired. It is online vigilantism, or digilantism, that dares to impact the real world, and it is not the first.
The complexity of regulating the online world has left a vacuum for people to take moral policing into their own hands. But if just one comment on a public platform can result in harassment and losing your job, have digilantes gone too far? We speak to Chris Rincon, who lost his job when his Facebook status was aired on the blog. We also hear from the man behind the retweeting moral policing machine @YesYoureRacist.
(Photo: An office worker gets fired by his senior manager. Credit to: Shutterstock)
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- Mon 19 Jan 2015 16:20GMT成人快手 World Service Online