david jackson and she asked anti the package dot com amanda todd is the
fifteen year old who was found hanged in her home on october ten she's from that
vancouver canada
weeks after she uploaded a video to youtube detail and how she was being
treated horribly
and uh...
bullied extensively by cyber bullies now anonymous the internet gathering known
as anonymous as main demand it claims posted the topless pictures of the
fifteen-year-old
presumably when she was only twelve years old
and harassed her so relentlessly that she killed herself vomit up with some of
that video from anonymous four you hear i want to bear in mind you know betfair
few things in mind
number one during a memorial for amanda todd earlier this week her friend said
they were aware of a man is thirties quotes stocking their friend
for years
that being said we don't really know if this allegation from anonymous is
accurate what we do know
uh... is that it is appearing to be taken very seriously
the video has an incredible number of use online
what we have to talk about is whether this is really the right way to go about
indicating who this was here's the video from anonymous
their citizens information
we've had brought this announcement
forward so
purpose movements in
times commissioners identity
will find
bruno
commenced talks in there
wilson very useful information
okay so there it is and
we we idea this brings up a lot of questions for me and the biggest one is
let's say anonymous is right
is this type of of internet vigilante justice we're now this individual is
receiving a ton of different about threats of all kinds
and so on and so forth
is this on the whole is this productive and then the next question with that i
guess i would use to evaluate that would be what what is the alternative in other
words should anonymous simply have gone to the police and said here's the person
or is this really the way to go about this type of thing
she bullied on the internet and therefore now yet he will be bullied on
the internet
uh... i'm someone who's generally has no faith in our legal system i think uh...
i think this is how you do it
you do you think that if and when you think
of all the ideally you could say that these people
all uh... should work o with the authorities however some other tactics
are clearly illegal in which case uh... you can if they use a legal tactics
maybe when they finally find the guide a ship and everything over and maybe the
immune from prosecution but at least from that point on law enforcement will
be doing that illegal things what's a good question which is if
uh... anonymous uses uh... tactics that are against the law to obtain this
information initially
and then they simply go to the police and say this is who we believe did this
and we're not gonna tell you why would that be seen in order to protect
themselves would that be seen as a credible enough lead where the police
would still act on it presumably in a case like this police would act on any
lead because let's be honest
how many leads are they're really getting and they'd be this is a serious
enough they where they should be following up anyway
uh... it's it's an interesting question yeah you know of course
we had a run-in with this one anonymous hack the west for a baptist church live
on this show back in february of last year
and out later there was a of the individual who did that was actually
arrested not specifically because of what he did on this show but because of
a number of actions that that were taken
and why was after i was interviewed extensively about and i said listen i
don't condone or endorse anything illegal being done
that being said i'm not going to go out of my way to seek justice against
anonymous for what they did because
they took down the website of the west for a baptist church in the which is
doing a lot of harm
and frankly i'm not going to go out there and and really try to punish
anybody if the legal system needs to do that
that's their business but i'm not going to be i'm not sitting around feeling
sorry for what the west for about charges right not at all
basically the same situation here