In the case of Byron, Coldplay Concert Infamy, are there several articles asking “Who is his wife?” And speculating on his family. As 404 media writingThe accident is “emblematic of our current private surveillance and Hellscape social media”, in which Tiktok commentators use facial recognition tools to identify random people online.
“I think shame is the extension of the algorithmic flow towards extremism,” says Cohen. “Internet normalizes the content as it progresses, which means that anything extreme must continue to become more extreme … We also live through a period of perceived illegality and real investigations on crime and shame seem justice, albeit amateur, vigilante justice”.
Writing on Reddit in 2023, Electronic_gur_843 user Appeal for advice After being “publicly skipped on the internet” for a “error”.
“It was a traumatic experience that led me to be demolished by hundreds of thousands of people. It was for me for making the mistake, but it was also blown in proportion. I don’t want to reveal too much, but I can assure you that it was nothing illegal or quite bad to consider myself a bad person.
They say that their google results present “pages of articles” on them, adding that the whole experience has left them “seriously depressed”.
According to the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases, 17 % of teenagers were cyberbulied and 9.5 percent of teenagers made a serious suicide attempt, starting from 2023, which means that putting the activities of a stranger on Main can have real and sometimes devastating consequences.
“The goal of sharing public is to consider people responsible for their behavior that operates outside of social norms or that it is considered offensive,” says Fox Hamilton, adding that this is usually done with the aim of creating a society in which everyone moves away the line. But this mentality also means if something bad happens to someone – how to be surprised to cheat online and to be a family message from strangers accordingly – we are more likely due to the victim’s fault, because we see them how to deserve it.
Ironically, Fox Hamilton says that “people who have that belief in a right world are often more likely to be ashamed publicly or jump on the cart like this, because they think” you did a negative thing, it’s your fault and I am not responsible for something bad that happens here. “”
There is also a slippery slope when we begin to supervise people based on our morals and the assumptions. In response to the scandal of the Coldplay concert, the right -wing influencer Matt Walsh wrote on X: “One of my less popular (but still correct) opinions is that adultery should be a criminal crime punishable by serious time in prison for both parties involved”. It is not difficult to imagine how the logic can be used to apply to a woman trapped in a violent wedding or people who do not enroll in monogamy.
When the goal is a public figure, like a CEO, the public can feel even more justified in the attack.
“At the moment there are so many problems in the world with large technological companies, and I think that some people Andy Byron represents him symbolicly,” says Fox Hamilton.
Whether they are publishing a video that tells a case or by publishing active surveillance, the Pi interviewed by Wired claim to be attentive to dark faces and any identifiable reference points to protect the identities and positions of both accused and accusers. In the case of Stephanie, sometimes he takes a further step forward, recalling cases for videos, a step to ensure his client’s confidentiality. None of their customers or customer partners was Doxed online.
Allen-Stell agrees that the public can bring things too far away, describing the Coldplay show as a “witches hunt”.
“What has started how to keep responsible is transformed into the sport of public humiliation,” he says. “It is reckless. Internet is not a courtroom and random users are not investigators.”