If you use Skype in an unconventional fashion, Bruno Giussani needs you:
I’m putting out a call for stories and anecdotes: please read on and if you can, do contribute. I’m intrigued by the imaginative ways in which people are using Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, iChat and the other free Internet telephony and videotelephony services. As with most technologies, they’re being used in ways that the engineers never intended and the marketeers never foresaw. Orthodox and unorthodox ways, hi-tech and low-tech. So I’m starting a collection of stories and anecdotes.
And y’all, don’t go over to his site with some freaky “ish,” please?:-)
Well, at least tell me all about it first and *then* go over there.
From The First Post: Honey trap leaves justice in a sticky mess
Miss America has used her charms in a ‘honey trap’ to catch internet paedophiles in a stunt for a ‘reality TV’ show.
This breathtaking confluence of some of America’s nastiest social trends - the artifice of the beauty pageant, the public humiliations of ‘reality’ shows, internet sexual prurience and police entrapment schemes that are illegal in Britain - airs on Saturday on Fox TV’s America’s Most Wanted.
First, Charles Laurence is off the mark when he asks later in the article: “Would these fools have been child-molesters if they had not been lured by pictures of the beauty queen as a teenager?”
That’s going in the direction of “she was wearing a short skirt so she deserved it” territory.
Other than that, the article brings out some good points. Is this not entrapment? Obviously, I in no way condone the acts of the perpetrators, but in my laywoman point of view, the legalities of this seem suspect.