Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
I’m torn on this.
1) that is sort of what you get for adding people you don’t know on facebook.
2) that is what you get for posting pictures of yourself drinking.
3) that is what you get for calling a number from a mysterious person and then going in to the police station after you find out it is the cops.
4) how fucking fascist can you get. The cops have gone out of their way to get underage drinkers way after the fact. way to go, police.
5) “you can just tell” is now states evidence
6) There is no punishment for the kids that were tagged and contacted but just didn’t respond? where is the justice in that? they were just as “guilty.”
7) what harm was done? they didn’t die. no one was injured. these are kids in college. college for pete’s sake. isn’t it just assumed that people drink in college? these aren’t hardened criminals. go find those. surely those officers that managed to make it to college drank when they were there.
8) “Law enforcement has to evolve with technology. … It is a necessity.” — this is true for people like Chris Hansen. People that use the Internet, and forge an identity to capture actual criminals. People that are after your children. Not 20 year olds drinking at an Oktoberfest event.
9) Where were the parents in this? If my mother and father got a phone call from the police saying they had me in custody for underage drinking, and that they are basing this charge off of pictures they saw on Facebook, we’d be in court fighting it. it wouldn’t hold water. prove that there was beer in those cans. prove that i was actually drinking it and not pantomiming drinking for a goof.
10) the blatant EULA agreement violation on the police’s part is the funniest part. Facebook is for communication purposes. The broke those terms by creating a fake account to ensnare and ensorcele young offenders. (thanks comment section)
Honestly, this is why no one respects the police. They are supposed to protect and serve. What service was brought here? Who were they protecting? The overly used and tired argument about how someone can die for their country, but can’t drink in it may have lost it’s ring from over use, but it is still applicable. I don’t understand the purpose of some of these laws.
