Justice, vigilantes, and electronic bullies, oh my!

Nothing gets my ire up more than people who don’t pick up after their dogs. I’ve watched people letting their dogs relieve themselves on my lawn with no intention of picking it up, and then get upset when I’ve confronted them about it. So when I read this story out of Korea I was quite amused.

But was what happened to her justice or was it just a case of a vigilante taking it to the electronic level? Did she deserve to have her face plastered all over the internet on a national and world wide level? Will this kind of vigilante justice start taking hold across the world? With the proliferation of camera phones I suspect we will start seeing more of this happening. I also see a lot of abuse happening to innocent people as people with no scruples trying to get back at people or just to cause mischief. As people in the UK are learning kids are being bullied by mobile phones and text messages.

Seems like age old problems are being kept alive by new technologies. As they say: the more things change the more they stay the same.