I have been too concerned with civil liberties and not concerned enough with civic duty.
After all, it doesn't matter who catches the shoplifters.
In the following hypothetical situation,I would be only too supportive of a non-member (let's call them a stranger) , who might monitor these threads (I believe they can do that), to take copies of a post that strongly suggest that a certain ethnic group have brought emnity on themselves, and to report to the police alleged incitement to racial hatred. I believe that two British citizens have just been imprisoned for such a crime.
Then it wasn't 'hypothetical', was it?
I don't doubt that the police (in this hypothetical situation) might be able to track down this person from Facebook connections.
The police use all kinds of methods to trace people these days, and I have no problem with that.
Would you agree that this stranger was fulfilling their civic duty?
Hardly, given the hypothetical situation you used, and I'm surprised that two people went to jail for making such a trivial suggestion. Have you further details of it?
However, I have no problem with anyone who reports signs of potentially criminal activity.
i doubt that the guard in my store would be overly happy to act on information recieved from someone else....
Well, if that person was employed by the store, he would have no choice!
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