“For instance, one front-page story on Slashdot in December 2007 was that of the convicted rapist who was murdered by a neighbor who had found his name by searching the ‘Megan’s Law’ database of sex offenders and said that he killed the man to protect his child from being molested…This story is of particular interest to Slashdot users because of the questions of privacy that are raised when we can access increasing amounts of information about individuals online.’ (104-105)
Walker Rettberg, Jill. Blogging: Digital Media and Society Series. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008.
I’d personally like to jump in at this point seeing as I feel that this is somewhat ridiculous. How can a person just go and kill his next door neighbor all of sudden? I’ll admit the neighbor was indeed a convicted rapist but I really don’t think that’s ample reason to just go and take away his life. The man killed the rapist in order to protect his daughter when in fact the rapist had never even done anything towards children as he was an adult rapist. It just bothers me how the rapist hadn’t done anything to his neighbor or his children and the guy decides to kill him. It really doesn’t seem like he has a sensible reason for taking away another man’s life. Also, the fact that the information was readily available online is also a topic of discussion. I find it rather interesting that you can just go online and find a person’s criminal record out of the blue. Sure the guy was a convicted rapist but something of that privacy level should at least be found via another method such as on television or radio, not floating around on the internet. I can’t completely side with the man defending his daughter strictly because he didn’t have a true reason in my opinion. He assumed his daughter would be inappropriately touched and thus acted on an assumption based on misleading information.
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