General Lighting
24-02-2008, 02:31 PM
OK its fun to share photos and memories and banter about what happened at parties but if you live in the same ends you can get together in real life and do that
if you are separated by distance theres such things as telephones that the feds can't listen to unless they do bare paperwork (the hardest warrant to get is to monitor voice traffic from the telephone network)
But so many people still upload party videos to youtube and other places complete with rig names :you_crazy There are the obvious local problems of the cops finding them and taking action. OK in many cases its nothing more than what cops already know about from their own CCTV in cars, and may not be enough to get individuals or even crews immediately nicked but it does count towards evidence against them, especially for ASBO cases.
it also has a wider impact than your region too because of the way social networks/web2.0 work. It costs a lot of money to put video online because of bandwidth. people don't just give away stuff for free, so there are ads on youtube and other sites.
To make it worthwhile, the reach (people who could view the video) has to be as wide as possible. if you google for these rig names (I won't show examples because it adds to the problem) you will even find the same videos but with all text in Chinese and other foreign languages (automatic translations from youtube).
i.e (loads of Chinese characters) (baithead illegal party, little snoring, 2006-07-08) (more chinese stuff)
OK on one level its cool that Chinese people can watch the party video (assuming youtube isn't blocked, it isn't always in HK, Singapore and Malaysia) and they like their hard dance too but it also has a wider knock on effect.
these videos now represent Britain to foreign people as much as BBC or ITV etc.. to us its proper fun, but to others it is a blatant depiction of youths getting away with a myriad of crime especially drugs use
Now consider what sort of other publicity East Anglia has had recently and how it has been linked in with the drugs/nightlife culture... it can result in stuff like Mr Cheng and his rich businessmen friends in Kuala Lumpur and Kowloon saying
"no, we are not sending our little princesses to study at UEA or UCS because they will get into bad company, go on drugs and may even end up on the game and being strangled by evil nonce monsters from Norfolk"
OK it may be a level of exaggeration but there is a lot of competition for investment from rich Asian countries and East Anglia (with traditional trade ties to this part of the world) desperately wants that money and doesn't want anything to stand in the way of this business. the image of an area being "safe/crime free" is a big attractor to investment...
what you do online today can affect how you are viewed by others not just in your region but halfway across the world and affects how those in power choose to enforce the laws..
if you are separated by distance theres such things as telephones that the feds can't listen to unless they do bare paperwork (the hardest warrant to get is to monitor voice traffic from the telephone network)
But so many people still upload party videos to youtube and other places complete with rig names :you_crazy There are the obvious local problems of the cops finding them and taking action. OK in many cases its nothing more than what cops already know about from their own CCTV in cars, and may not be enough to get individuals or even crews immediately nicked but it does count towards evidence against them, especially for ASBO cases.
it also has a wider impact than your region too because of the way social networks/web2.0 work. It costs a lot of money to put video online because of bandwidth. people don't just give away stuff for free, so there are ads on youtube and other sites.
To make it worthwhile, the reach (people who could view the video) has to be as wide as possible. if you google for these rig names (I won't show examples because it adds to the problem) you will even find the same videos but with all text in Chinese and other foreign languages (automatic translations from youtube).
i.e (loads of Chinese characters) (baithead illegal party, little snoring, 2006-07-08) (more chinese stuff)
OK on one level its cool that Chinese people can watch the party video (assuming youtube isn't blocked, it isn't always in HK, Singapore and Malaysia) and they like their hard dance too but it also has a wider knock on effect.
these videos now represent Britain to foreign people as much as BBC or ITV etc.. to us its proper fun, but to others it is a blatant depiction of youths getting away with a myriad of crime especially drugs use
Now consider what sort of other publicity East Anglia has had recently and how it has been linked in with the drugs/nightlife culture... it can result in stuff like Mr Cheng and his rich businessmen friends in Kuala Lumpur and Kowloon saying
"no, we are not sending our little princesses to study at UEA or UCS because they will get into bad company, go on drugs and may even end up on the game and being strangled by evil nonce monsters from Norfolk"
OK it may be a level of exaggeration but there is a lot of competition for investment from rich Asian countries and East Anglia (with traditional trade ties to this part of the world) desperately wants that money and doesn't want anything to stand in the way of this business. the image of an area being "safe/crime free" is a big attractor to investment...
what you do online today can affect how you are viewed by others not just in your region but halfway across the world and affects how those in power choose to enforce the laws..