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Technology captures sex pests
Female New Yorkers are capturing sex pests in the act by snapping them with mobile phone cameras and posting their identities on the internet.
The growing trend of so-called .cyber vigilantism. started in the City last week, when one woman in her mid-twenties used her smartphone to film a man masturbating on the subway.
Since then, she has been compared to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, after an upload of the candid camera shot led to the man’s conviction for public lewdness.
Inspired by her actions, Lauren Spees and six other women launched hollabacknyc.com . a vibrant portal dedicated to shaming male admirers who won.t take no for an answer.
Under the slogan, .if you can.t slap .em, snap .em,. the website is expected to spawn similar portals to showcase the bad behaviour of men in London and other European cities.
Already, the NY site features fly-on-the-wall-type images of men who reportedly overstepped the mark between innocent chat and sexual harassment.
One entry shows a mobile camera clip of two men standing on a stairwell, one of whom is facing the lens as he unzips his trousers to expose himself.
.Right outside my third story window.this is SO annoying,. said Shana posting on the website, which reportedly receives an average of 1,500 hits a day.
Speaking to The Observer, the site.s founder said the aim is to capture men who have no interest in striking up a genuine conversation.
.The guys who harass with sexual comments are not interested in a date.It.s not an attempt to connect,. Spees said.
Her comments refer to recent online entries, including one group of males who were quizzing women with .fine asses,. if they .like porn..
Another victim recalls how one man approached her to say he admired her trousers, before telling her, .I want to get between them and your thighs..
More serious online entries include the exposure of one man, photographed aerially, who is said to physically obstruct the entrances of apartment blocks inhabited by women.
.You have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of some turd’s fantasy,. Holla Back NY says online.
.So stop walkin’ on and Holla Back: Send us pics of street harassers!.
Emily Mary, the website.s co-founder, reportedly denied women are putting themselves in danger by snapping hostile males with mobile phone cameras.
.We encourage women to be safer rather than sorry, which could mean doing it in daylight or if they.re with someone,. she said.
May 2, 2006
If anyone has pictures of people robbing, mugging or generally being cunts at parties, I’ll happily host them publicly…
I saw this site the other day. Interesting.
I think its great that technology is so free and easy to use these days that this sort of thing is possible. The rise of YouTube / Video Google etc.. aswell has helped this. Basically anyone can publish almost anything. More and more people have cameras on their phones etc… Its a good thing i think…
I think its great that technology is so free and easy to use these days that this sort of thing is possible. The rise of YouTube / Video Google etc.. aswell has helped this. Basically anyone can publish almost anything. More and more people have cameras on their phones etc… Its a good thing i think…
And the authorities have proven random pictures can be used as evidence…
this was talked about years ago on SJ and DC – a few pics were posted up but AFAIK nothing happened to stop the problems.
Although women being harrased have the moral high ground (particularly as many often are themselves covertly photographed for certain “adult” sites or even by their own friends “larking around”) and their site would be supported by many – it may not be that easy to use these tactics for something like an unilcensed rave party in a legal grey area.
There are gigabytes of videos and photos of cops acting out of order on our site, and no one outside the rave community and a rag-tag band of progressive activists seems to come out in support on our side. Most of the rest of society still wholly support more robust actions against unlicensed raves.
Worse still, if we hosted such photos cops themselves even if they nick the scum will say “well that proves that unlicensed parties are dangerous – there are clearly crimes in progress – we had better shut them all down for everyones safety”.
Many crimes are commited in full view of CCTV cameras, by people who remain unrepentant for every day of their prison time. Some even consider it a trophy or badge of honour to have been caught doing crime on CCTV.
There are serious dangers here – all photographers who attend raves will be targeted as potential “grasses”, also those who use this board and attend raves will be targeted.
investigative reporters and cops’ evidence gathering teams have professional security backup;your average person with a camera normally does not. Even if their partners or friends can look after themselves, they are still being put at risk.
Other gangs and would be vigilantés may also use “rogue gallery” photos as an excuse to take matters into their own hands and run a nice little protection racket.
And one day, someone who is photographed ,be they at a party or on a street, is going to respond to a camera with a fist, a knife or even a bullet.
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