So should these people suffer the same fate last year during similar circumstance?? It's still a protest during a pandemic.
I agree with you on the BLM protest. That's the hypocrisy of the crowd, and you can still see people defend them to this day, "they had social distancing and masks on".
They were the same people who are on my side when it comes to covid and lockdown, and by no means I am against racial equality, but I do find it being hypocritical to go out to protest - for whatever reasons, while the same grouip of people have also pushed for social distancing and staying at home. Fuck mate, as if the virus will not spread just because you're anti-racism? I do think that they should be prosecuted too, not for anti-racism, but for protesting during a pandemic.
In short, fuck hypocrites.
Because of this view of mine, I believe I have a more neutral view compared to yours.
Wouldn't you be incriminating yourself by posting even without visual proof?
I could claim online that I have been to the protest today, but they will eventually find out that I didn't, because all evidence will show that I have not been there. So, no, I wouldn't be incriminating myself by posting online even without visual proof, because the action of posting is not a crime.
Well they didn't want to cover up out of principle, which makes sense albeit they leave themselves to be identified. It would be the same as nudist protesting for nudist rights but with cloths on.. would be kind of hypocritical don't you think?
Exactly the point I was making, they didn't do the things that could avoid them being easily identifiable because of their stupid principles. So, they get identified easily, and who's to blame that they want to be known for what they did? By all means, act according to their principles, boast their "bravery" all they want online, it's not the online viewers fault that they made their faces visible.
You are talking about one hell of an extreme by using a murderer as an example. I think we are talking about two different things here. I'm talking about every day events and thing we do online being policed and people turning on each other for their rights to protest. No I wouldn't sympathise with anyone causing violence, but at the same time I also can't sympathise with behaviour that has lead to terrible events that seemed innocent but escalated over time for neighbours to turn on one another. Do you sympathise with people being turned against one another??\
It was an example to explain that they will be arrested not for the fact that they have made online posts, but for the fact that they have went to the protest. It was a respond to you making it sound like they were being arrested because they were being identified from online footage.
Another example, you cheated in an exam, not knowing that there was a camera pointing at you. You left the exam hall and were later identified by the school after they checked the footage. You were booted from the school for cheating in exam. Did you get booted because you cheated, or because you were identified from the camera footage?
You are trying to spin recent events really hard to make them into the extreme scenario that you imagine them to be. They are not.
Are neighbourhood watches bad? It is turning people against each other - people might get police called on them for loitering around the local park in the middle of the night, maybe looking suspicious in the eyes of the locals. Isn't it their rights to be wherever they want whenever they want?
Are you not supposed to inform the authorities when you see suspicious bags sitting idle in an airport lounge? If you are, aren't you turning against another individual and sided with the authorities? Don't you think it's your right to leave a bag wherever you want, while you went to maybe get a burger at maccas?
You might agree with the above examples of people turning against each other because your social beliefs align with many others, but in today's case, many people do not agree with your belief. So, while you cannot justify reporting the people who attended the protest, those who have beliefs that are opposed to yours can.
Since there was no permit granted for the protest, and since gathering rules were in place, the protest was unlawful. Because of this, the authority happens to be on the side of those who are against the protest.
People are not reporting the protestors for their action of protesting.
People are reporting the protestors because - on public scale, what they did was a threat to public health and safety, and on personal scale, their actions are likely to cause wider spread of the virus and longer lockdown, which ruins the routine of many people. We can get out of lockdown faster, if everyone gets vaccinated ASAP and stop creating new patients by containing the spread while the hospitals deal with existing patients.
A few years back, some vegan protestors congested the traffic in Melbourne CBD during peak morning hours. People didn't get mad at the fact that they were vegans, or the ideology that they were pushing. People were mad at them for fucking up the lives of others by taking out the traffic during peak hours. There are people depending on keeping their jobs to survive, there are people relying on being punctual to make a living.
Today, there are people who cannot afford to be infected by the virus that the protestors regard as "mild flu", they might not have the privilege to take time out of work for being sick, or that they couldn't afford hospital bills, or that they simply cannot risk their lungs being meddled by the symptoms of the virus.