The "Dog Poop Girl" story, the talk of blogs for several weeks as an example of how citizen journalists and the internet are changing the rules on privacy, hit the Washington Post on Thursday with a piece titled "Subway Fracas Escalates Into Test Of the Internet's Power to Shame."
This article -- about the girl on the South Korea subway whose photo was plastered online after she refused to clean up after her pooch -- says:
In discussions with dozens of people about this story, and in reading comments on blogs, I found an intriguing common thread. The instinct of most was to accept using the Internet as a new social-enforcement tool, but to search for that point on the continuum where enough was too much.
Putting Dog Poop Girl's picture on the Web was OK, some said, but not the clamoring for more information that followed. Others said the woman's face and other identifying features should have been obscured more. Still others said she was entitled to no privacy at all.
Columbia Journalism Review also joined in with "The Tale of Dog Poop Girl Is Not So Funny After All."
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