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Monitoring Cyberspace Can Help Prevent Mass School Shootings
theglobeandmail.com — Alone in his bedroom, week after week, the young killer-in-waiting stares into his computer screen, plotting the worst and telling the world. But his plans to shoot up his high school or university campus never materialize. Instead, there's an early-morning door knock from police who've been stealthily tracking his online activities.
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- Wiwoz, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Well-intentioned but sinister, a distressing combination.
- wrxpert, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Better yet. We should put collars on everyone that monitor there thoughts through brainwaves. When there thoughts turn to violence a signal can be sent to make them walk them self to the local police department for incarceration
- booyaman1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Ahh yes, those "thorny privacy issues" again. If only we could all get over these archaic, irrelevant concepts of "privacy" and "freedom" and allow government and law enforcement to track and monitor everything we do, not just on the web, but in the physical world as well, we could end all "bad" things for "good"! The only real concern I have is whether or not my new iMind implantable chip will be able to play MP3s.
- EatingPie, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1Within about the last 6 months, I believe there were two potential school shootings stopped because of myspace postings by the potential perpetrators. In at least one case, it was a student who saw the postings and reported them.
In terms of privacy, it doesn't even look like that's an issue. We're talking public postings, accessible to anybody. So I really don't see there's any violation of privacy at all. A public post is a public post, whether it's a hot girl or a cop looking at it.
Obviously, if they implement the "military style" monitoring suggesting in the article -- not necessarily IMHO -- THAT would be a privacy issue.
-Pie- EatingPie, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1Oops, bad typo:
Obviously, if they implement the "military style" monitoring suggesting in the article -- not *NECESSARY* IMHO -- THAT would be a privacy issue.
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- EatingPie, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1Oops, bad typo:
- ViRaZ, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Whatever happened to being a good parent and spending time with your children. Whats that? Being a parent is too hard? Nothing in life is easy.
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