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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: ABX on August 15, 2016, 03:42:41 pm

Title: There's A Public Shaming Industry (and it holds people hostage)
Post by: ABX on August 15, 2016, 03:42:41 pm

If you get arrested and your mugshot winds up online, prepare to fork over some major cash to super-sleazy people to (maybe) have it taken down. (From Cracked but actually an interesting article).

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Take a moment to remember the absolute lowest point of your life. Now imagine that A) multiple photos were taken of it, and B) those photos so thoroughly saturate the internet that a search of your name turns up almost nothing but that. No, you're not a celebrity who went on a racist tirade at the Oscars; you're a random nobody who happened to get a mugshot taken.

Thanks to a thriving online mugshot publication industry, the worst day (and hair) of your life can live forever, even if it was all a big misunderstanding and the charges were later dropped. Trying to get rid of those pictures is a nightmarish -- and expensive -- task which requires dealing with some truly sleazy people....

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2366-shady-people-put-my-mugshot-online-extorted-me-money.html