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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
At what point does a public shaming via the world wide web become internet bullying though?
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When the actions become bullying. Shame is just being aware of the disapproval of others, shaming is just disapproving (it doesn't even have to be voiced).
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
There have been several times in recent history that someone has done something they are ashamed of and it gets spread through social media to a point that it is harmful.
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I can think of examples on this forum where I think it's crossed that line. But the solution isn't to turn off the forum, or restrict the ability to take photos in public or to share photos taken in public to the public.
If someone gets bullied then the problem is the bully, not the exposure of the person being bullied.
The ONLY thing I can say is that by posting the photo to Facebook etc then it increases exposure to a much larger audience of potential bullies, but again I don't think the solution to that is to ban social media, or restrict social media to be only cases of 100% unambiguously positive content that has no risk of being harmful (so cat videos).
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
If you could guarantee that everyone who saw her picture would just move on like you would, that would be different. The truth is, there are many psychopaths (just look at internet communities like 4chan) who will take retribution too far based on one person's interpretation of a photo.
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That sounds a little too much like saying because there's rapists women should have to dress as not to provoke the rapists.
You can't shut down social media and outlaw public photography just because our social responses are evolved for groups of 50 instead of millions. Society has to adapt, we can't put the social media djinn back in the bottle.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I also don't see how anyone can attest to her lack of empathy based on photo and the comments from one witness, the character of whom cannot be known.
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I did say disapproval was provisional based on the actual details of the story. It's ok to form a provisional opinion and change it if new information comes to light. I wouldn't act on this provisional opinion of course.