A Chat With Zavilia, a Tool For Identifying Rioters 102
HansonMB writes with an interview in Motherboard.tv. From the article: "Social media isn't just great for starting 'social unrest,' it's proving to be quite helpful for quashing it too. Not long after the bricks began to fly in London's latest kerfuffle, locals angry over raging mobs scrambled to assist the police in their attempt to identify street-fighters and free-for-all hooligans ... Now with more than 1,000 people charged over the chaos, a few citizen groups continue to provide web-based rioter identification platforms, in hopes of being good subjects, maintaining the country's pursuit of order, and keeping their neighborhoods safe."
Doesn't understand IP (Score:2, Interesting)
The Zavilla instigator clearly doesn't understand IP law, and more specifically, copyright law. References to copyright protection in the original article were positively cringeworthy. I also struggle to see how this will scale if each photo has to be hand annotated, it needs google-style auto face-detection.
What a useless website (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Freedom of speech (Score:2, Interesting)
Just like Communism "really means" an "egalitarian stateless society" and not "what the rest of us think" ("single-party centrally-planned dictatorship").
In the meantime, the rest of us will keep thinking of political ideologies based on their practical manifestations, rather than pie-in-the-sky theories.