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[–] [email protected] 178 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is chilling how thenwhole internet is fed up a story of a man before his sentence. If this guy is innocent his whole life is already exposed forever just for memes and a penny. We are the big brother and we suck.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The "we did it reddit!" phrase comes from redditors trying to track down suspects of the boston bombing. Redditors found a guy they strongly suspected, then found personal info on them and began harrassing him and family, including death threats.

It was the wrong person.

Imagine being that person accused! One day just living life, the next experiencing a horrible bombing, the next being tracked down by a misguided internet randos on a manhunt.

This is why having some basic privacy is important before you need it

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it wasnt the internet that exposed him to the media, it was the police and feds who sold him out to the media. There is no "we did it" here. "They" did it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Fair, this situation is different in a lot of ways

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, but just one detail from what I'm seeing on the linked article - "that person" committed suicide a month before any of that went down. I don't think it invalidates the point, even though being alive and present to be interrogated might've changed things, but it comes off comical when talking about how horrible the experience must've been.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

You're right! I should have said "those people accused" because there were multiple suspects. The one I linked was the most prominent of them. Sorry!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Still horrible for his family...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

im big skeptical of the photos and videos they've been circulating. everything about this investigation is sus.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah the real guy is gone, the cops are finding someone to blame it on because they are afraid of continuing to totally fumble the bag.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Luigi just now said the NYPD planted evidence.