Internet Justice

This stems from my last post about bowling alone, and how online communities can get together to work on a common goal.

The term internet justice is something that is popping up more and more. Basically it deals with an online community deciding to take actions in their own hands and trying to solve a problem(or sometimes right what they consider an injustice) Very recently an example of this came to light when someone posted a blog entry of how his house got broken into and his xbox was stolen, with the thief later on logging into his online with xbox and taunting him. In a matter of days people had found the thief's identity, his myspace page, his girfriend's page, and his home number. Some even called him and posted the recordings up on youtube.

While the guy did end up getting back his xbox in a way this type of example is slightly terrifying. The idea that people on the internet can find all your information and then go ahead and post that for others to see can be reason alone to keep of the internet.

The whole idea of internet justice ties into two things that we have been discussing. The idea of the spectacle, in which everything becomes bigger and more important, and also of the environment.