electro-vigilantism

[dhex]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html

Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.

[dmauro]

Scary stuff.

"If a person doesn’t do anything wrong, they won’t be human-flesh-searched."

o rly?

I guess we're lucky 4chan has only managed to rally together angry youth culture.

[dhex]

and that they're comprised of pussies and type two diabetes.