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Topic History of: Scorned fling girl is jailed over rape lies
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veritas |
I'm a bit hesitant about this idea Jim.
The internet is an odd place. You can set up a stream of information and an opposer can do likewise which either cancels out your claims or draws attention when not wanted.
Don't know the answer though.
Which is odd for me.  |
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Jim |
Greetings to all,
It's been a while since anyone posted to this thread. If you recall I think we were talking about an online database of false rape allegations. I'm ashamed to say I still haven't done a thing (not a jot) on this proposal, but I did warn you I'm lazy.
In the meantime, however, while following the Egyptian situation, I notice they've done something like what I had in mind in order to collate a record of their dead. Some board contributors appeared confused about what I was suggesting. Perhaps their example will help to clarify.
It's here: spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlikD1W...U&hl=en_GB#gid=0
Note it doesn't use a web front end, just a basic spreadsheet that everyone can read online. Maybe that's good enough. Seems like it would be a pretty good model for us.
Anyway, I'm off to lazyville again. Sorry. I'm pretty much obsessed with what's going on in Egypt.
Best Wishes,
Jim |
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Locked Out |
And if all of that was too much to read {and I wouldn't blame you if you thought that way} I'm sorry. I'll precis it with this afterthought:
We are not the judges.
We are not the jury.
And we sure as hell shouldn't be the executioners. |
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Locked Out |
Ouch. You really think that setting up Facebook pages... Wikipedia pages...whatever pages... is any way to go forward here? It sounds horribly like the kind of internet vigilante action we often condemn on these very pages when it pertains to other groups. Sorry. But if it's wrong for one set of people to do it it's equally wrong for another group of people to do it. We may {as men} be aggrieved to be on the receiving end of a false accusation. But don't you think we're being just a tad like those ghastly people who shriek "what if it was your daughter {or whatever}..." before losing all grip on reason and setting up something like "Noncewatch"?
We have a legal framework to deal with injustices. We may be dissatisfied with it. It might not work terribly well in its current form. But a naming and shaming culture is not an indicator mark of a civilised society and it looks awfully like vicarious revenge. It smacks of taking the law into one's own hands {whether you agree with the law is always open to your own rather objective viewpoints, but the law IS the law, and I seriously feel it should be left to professionals rather than laymen to interpret and/or implement it} and it's not the kind of action I would have either support or sympathy for. I just know it'll be abused, I'm sorry, but I find the very idea morally reprehensible. I also question exactly what such a campaign would achieve. It would certainly have the effect of making a genuine rape victim think twice about reporting a very serious crime. All it needs is a Not Guilty verdict {and miscarriages of justices do work the other way sometimes} for you - yes, you - to crucify her on your webpage as a false accuser. This is not the way to further any form of real justice.
I apologise, Jim, for being so openly anti. I'm sure your intentions are well founded and good. But the road to ruin...
Please shelve this crazy idea immediately. In the name of all that dares to call itself common sense. I'm not a religious man, but if I were I'd be praying that calm heads prevail and you rethink. Do you really believe that inciting people to hatred is a good thing? There's already altogether too much of that going on elsewhere already. Don't you think? |
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SJB |
Jim wrote:
Don't know whether this will make sense to non-technical readers,
It was Greek to me, sorry.
Isn't Wikipedia another place where an article could be maintained and updated? |
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