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#1 Consumer Comment
Ever crossed your mind?
AUTHOR: Gunner - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, July 24POSTED: Tuesday, July 24
Maybe the reason you don't get the results you want is because they aren't breaking any law? If they were breaking the law then many dozens of other publications would be in the same boat as well. The truth of the matter is you've got a weak personal agenda. You got arrested and the mugshot is on the site. Don't like it? Try and change the U. S constitution.
Www.mugshots.com. A Socially Dangerous Network. Impersonating Law Enforcement
Dear Sir/Madam,
1) It has crossed my mind, that In the minds of the Predatory mugshot Websites, they think they are doing nothing wrong. They are justifying their Miss Use of "facts/Truth", for their financial gain as not having any legal wrong doing. It has not not sat well with me, that these websites are acting in collusion with vendors that are from Canada and other States, (I do wonder about how they are reporting the revenue is being exchanged (for My calling Canada and paying to take my name down "off" the internet costs alot of money. It has crossed my mind that the general public does not know what their rights are (Business law and personal law and the internet). If these mugshot websites (www.mugshots.com0 were not breaking the law, why do they not have the business transparency, that a legal honest business would have? It has crossed my mind to find out and learn how these sites are legally operating. It has crossed my mind that,: www.mugshots.com is profiling, making fun of people, requesting comments from the public, uses deceptive internet trade practices, Lacks their own transparency. Threatens people to Pay or be Terrorized by www.mugshots.com Internet/website. Many other things have crossed my mind.
2) If I did not have an interesting 4 hours, I might not even know about these sites. I would never had learned about Botnets, I would never have thought twice about the predators that exist on the internet and justify their behavors and compromised morals under "Freedom of Speech and "Freedom of Information". I would never have thought that there could be such a Perversion of the use of "Facts and Truth".in America, the people behind these sites are getting away with something that, in other countries their fingers could get cut off for.
The Internet is a different "Publication" than the paper publications. Paper publications have registared business identification numbers, do these internet blogs have that? These websites move "Publication" to a new level. This is not journalism. Dozens of paper publications are in a different boat. These webhosted, webmaster bloggs are a different means of communication. These sites are not news, these sites are deceptively parading like they are associated with Law Enforcement. These sites are engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices on the interent, via wire, via use of creditcard transactions, illegal Post Office boxes (speak to post master general). Hiding behind "Safe Harbor Act" and First Amendment. If these sites are "doing nothing wrong", why don't they give their real business information? Why to they lack the transparency that legal business and organizations have? Business that are legal have no problem producing their DBA, the states they are registared in. Legal business, even if they make people angry, don't hide their identities. Do these websites fear retaliation from many people that do not like their business practice? I guess the courts would get the opportunity to figure that one out.
3) These sites are placing persons that have been arrested, in the position of duress to use "their authorized vendors" "or else", their pictures and information will remain at the hands of who ever is running the site. These sites are putting people into odd positions to figure out who is running these websites. I don't have a weak agenda. I am an American Citizen, with Rights. These websites have a weak agenda, that over then next 24 months will change. Www.mugshots.com et al., exist to make money from hacking and scrapping secure sites, these sites do racial profiling, entertainment venues. These sites play unfair optimizing games to an arrestee's name, after expungments. These websites would like to make themselves appear "as if" they have any Journalistic worthyness. These sites bring real journalism to a whole other level. Unfortunattely, these sites also taint the meaning of Julian Assange. The people that run these "mugshot" websites are cowards, that hide. Cowards that are just holding on to booking photos, until they get paid, victimizing a person that has been booked, expunged and even forgiven by "A State". These sites are behaving like criminals, that think they are not going to get caught. These sites are putting people that have nothing to do with them in danger, because their names are published in connection with other sites.
4) Everyone that reads these reports needs to know that they have rights to report the miss use of booking information to their state officials, the officials of the state they were booked, the FTC (877-382-4357), Senator Rockerfeller; 531 Hart Building, Washington, DC 20510, Att: Complaints Office, Internet/websites. If incident was in Florida, report sites to BBBFL (727-535-5522), Pam Bondi's office (561-837-5000) (850-414-3990), Florida Department of Agriculture and consumer service (850-488-2221). File complaints and request copies of complaints and reports from these agencies.
My agenda of informing the public of their rights and getting a balance to fair honest, current real freedom of speech and information;
may be a bit more worhty than defending a "For profit" blog/website that is rouge in hiding and miss placing it's agenda.
Imposters to Law Enforcement, Deceptive, Dangerous, Defaming, Profiling, Harassing, Terrorizing. Places people under duress. Threatens to keep booking photos up online on internet next to perosn's name, unless they are paid. Use of third party vendors, to hide their financial gains and disclosures of their physical location.
5) Has it crossed your mind that any of the people that are posting booking phots: are just bloggers trying to pretend that they are journalists..
Http://mugshots.com/Blog/Curated-Journalism. 7115698.html
Thus, if a fair balancing of the risks associated with journalism were to be undertaken, it would be clear that anyone who disseminates information that is within the public domain or that is of a newsworthy nature should be presumptively entitled to invoke a qualified reporters privilege, regardless of whether the claim of privilege is based on the First Amendment, federal common law or state shield laws. The only question that would be left to a legal analysis in a rebuttal is the scope of the asserted privilege itself.
The risks associated with news disseminated by citizen journalists are real. The interconnectedness of the Internet means that unchecked false reports can be quickly fed into online media and picked up by many more websites within minutes for circulation throughout the world. These organizations have substantially eroded their own credibility...
It has also crossed my mind, why someone that had real news worthy information, would have to hide who they were as owner / operators, and reporters.
The balance of "Doing No Evil "and "Doing Evil" has crossed my mind. Has it crossed yours?
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