I just clicked on a video that a friend had posted on their Facebook. I thought I was clicking on a funny video, but it turns out it was a video captured by apparently a traffic monitor that shows a motorcycle rider being rear ended by an 18-wheeler. The video was very gruesome and showed the last seconds of a human being’s life.

I never understood why people like to distribute these videos. I think they carry a certain amount of disrespect for the people whose tragic deaths appear in them and to their families.

I guess if it weren’t for this kind of technology, this particular incident wouldn’t have been used by sick individuals (and I’m not referring to my friend here coz a lot of people repost videos they receive without even watching them).

I just don’t get it. I wonder if these people who upload these videos, and especially those who leak them out, ever ask themselves how they’d feel if the tragic death of someone they cared about was distributed widely on the internet on web sites the main purpose of which is to provide entertainment!

There is recent data suggesting that CCTV cameras do reduce crime in areas covered by them, but crime rates increase proportionally in adjacent areas. So it’s a net wash. Except that they give some people the creeps.

Didn’t anyone else notice what I did? Citing the notoriously inaccurate Wikipedia as your source. . .oh, that is low.

“Big Brother” didn’t just watch people in the streets. He watched and listened to them in their homes too, and that was the invasion of privacy.

If Jordanian police and intelligence officers are going to drag “suspicious looking people” into dungeons to be interrogated, then they are probably already doing that without the need to see them on camera.

Our government and joke of a constitution can’t establish clear guidance about what is against the law and what is the punishment AND citizens have no guarantee for legal fair due process. How will this work in Jordan? you look suspicious and you are caught on tape then you are dragged into a dungeon somewhere to be interrogated. you have no rights and no way out!! They are already doing that without watching people lasho el ba3zaga of 2.6 million?

What are they going to watch and what are they gonna do about it? All the screw ups that happen under the government’s nose go unnoticed, unrectified and unpunished. The government never has to have evidence or reason to prosecute non suspecting civilians so what is the point of this?

The CCTV captured images are planned to be used to recreate a Jordan in Second Life. It seems we have bought an island on SL and we are recreating the country, starting with the capital of course, trying to make it as physically realistic as possible, so that when citizens log on with their avatars, they feel at home. The objective is for every citizen to recreate a virtual/upgraded/improved version of him/herself. And to simulate the Jordan we aspire for in SL since we don’t seem to be getting the real one right at all.

How cool is that?

If only the king and queen knew about advanced spying techniques used to monitor their citizens…
they would immediately launch an initiative to stop it…
and then host an international conference
about the importance of freedom of speech and movement