Peter Williams: The internet has compromised justice

Ted8367 · 2018-12-14T23:57:14+00:00

Yes, the death of Grace Millane is truly shocking. We have a young woman, in the year of the MeToo movement, being killed. But why the outpouring of grief for her and not for Rima Sikei, a 21-year-old who died in Mt Albert on Friday night. Where was the Prime Minister's sympathy for him?

Or for Frank Tyson, whose decapitated body had been found in Lower Hutt the same weekend that Grace went missing?

I wonder what the difference could possibly be.

headingtoshore · 2018-12-15T00:29:49+00:00

In the sentence "The internet has compromised justice" , if you read the story, and keep in mind wider context, the word 'internet' means 'social media'. So to be a little more clear 'Social media has compromised justice' would be the sentance - i speculate the writer may have considdered using the phrase 'social media' but decided that the 'social media has compromised justice' story is not even a story, everyone knows that and no one wants to read it again.

But i can dig this rabbit hole a bit deeper, because 'social media' is a euphemism, a marketing phrase, and what it refers to is 'gossip', social media is gossip, social media platforms are gossip platforms.

So i would have recommended to the writer, had he asked, to skip the internet rhetoric and just say what he means - 'we fools are allowing gossip to compromise justice'

Title	Peter Williams: The internet has compromised justice
Author	Ted8367
Upvotes	26
Comments	2
Date	December 14, 2018 11:55 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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