Exclusive: BBC incites offences under the Protection of Children Act?
Delicious!
I have taken the precaution of some screen shots, perchance the BBC should realise what they have done before you read this.
It all started so innocently. Leo Kelion, one of their technology ‘experts’ discovered that feeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any web user to access live footage without needing a password. Nice story.
He illustrated it with some of the comments he found on internet sites such as:
“Someone caught a guy in Denmark (traced to ip) getting naked in the bathroom.”
OK so far, but then:
One user wrote “Baby Spotted,” causing another to comment “I feel like a pedophile watching this”.
‘Some screenshots have also been uploaded’ pants our Leo….and then adds:
Send your pictures and videos to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or text them to 61124 (UK) or +44 7624 800 100 (International). If you have a large file you can upload here.
Would it be a kindness to advise Leo of the provisions of the Protection of Children Act, specifically the incitement to transmit such photographs, or shall we just let him stew in his own juice until the law catches up with him?
Feel free to retweet this to any BBC contacts you have. I shall have more fun monitoring the court case…some hefty prison sentences have been handed out recently for this sort of thing!
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February 7, 2012 at 12:55 -
‘I have taken the precaution of some screen shots, perchance the BBC should realise what they have done before you read this.’
Wise.
That way they can then say it didn’t happen, or if it did it didn’t matter, or if it does it was simply a story evolution and no stealth editing had happened.
BBC Complaints can be tinkers, you see, for guardians of most trusted national treasures.
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February 7, 2012 at 13:11 -
Instead of screenshots (or maybe as well as,) have you considered sites like http://webcitation.org/ which snapshot websites for you? Bit like archive.org, but you dictate when it happens.
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February 7, 2012 at 19:38 -
I’ve no idea why (I have but don’t want to get involved in a war) but to a lot of people being able to say “I did something really kewl with technology” seems to absolves them from any moral responsibility. We should not be too hard on this sad little BBC droid when we have high tech hearoes like Zuckerberg declaring that privacy is obsolete or Google’s Page and Brin and their former CEO saying “Google policy is to go as close to creepy as possible without crosing the line.
As a matter of fact they had crossed they line and gone past creepy and all the way to bunny boilerism long before they said that.
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February 7, 2012 at 22:13 -
you all have become a weird lot
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February 7, 2012 at 22:43 -
You do realise that the “send your pictures” bit is boilerplate added to a lot of BBC articles? Ok it is rubbish in itself as it smacks of them wanting free sources to base articles on but trying to twist that to make it sound like the BBC are promoting kiddy porn? Add to that imagining the writer to be panting at the thought of screenshots equals me thinking I’ll back out of this site slowly!!!
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February 8, 2012 at 05:45 -
Bob, we all realise that!
This is the BBC caught on their moralising petard, and it’s just delicious! Why can’t we enjoy it?
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February 8, 2012 at 06:59 -
What’s the betting that “Bob” will be firmly on the side of the authorities when they’re harassing a father for photographing his own children at the local swimming pool?
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