Social networks, this court without a lawyer and without procedure
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Social networks, this court without a lawyer and without procedure
In one of my lastest post, I mentioned a book called “Deadly Transparency” that brilliantly demonstrates that in our societies, transparency becomes total.
Our travels, our purchases, our tastes, our diseases, our exchanges, our conversations … Nothing escapes this transparency. The book talks about diktat transparency, but what struck a lot of listeners is the side “court Buzz“. Some kindly asked me if I was not exaggerating. Alas no.
The book “Deadly Transparency” poses at one point a question: do you know Walter Palmer? Probably not. Yet at one point he was the most famous and hated hunter on the planet. He had, it’s true, the very bad taste to post a photo of him posing next to a Zimbabwean lion he had just killed. In a few hours he was lynched on the canvas, some saying he was a waste of sperm, the others asking for his death. His phone number and passport number were disclosed on social networks, the address and photo of his dental office were published and some even added a message to the Islamic State to attack it. type. In short, even if of course this hunter is vulgar and this lion did not deserve death, the treatment inflicted on this hunter was he, too, disproportionate?
An editorial writer for the British newspaper Telegraph even wondered if the social unrest would have been so violent if it was not a lion but a Zimbabwean citizen who had been killed by this dentist? After all, Zimbabwe is one of the poorest countries on the planet and has never had such media coverage. This is the danger of social networks: a media court without a lawyer and without a procedure. And the only way to calm the crowds, tell us the authors of “Deadly Transparency” is to do a public act of contrition, as in the Middle Ages or to make a self-critical session as in Mao’s time.
What’s crazy about social media is the speed with which information spreads – an American law firm has calculated that it takes less than an hour for information published on the Internet to exceed borders of his country of origin and out of control. This is where the drama begins, because the digital crowd is naturally inclined to condemn without investigation tell us the two authors of this book devoted to this “fatal transparency“. The digital crowd lynches often without proof and without scruple – remains to be seen if it is necessary to get used to it?
