AIBU to hate online naming and shaming?

[LaDaronne]

There's a "name and shame" picture doing the rounds on my FB of a big game hunter with the giraffe she's just shot. Now I certainly think enjoying big game hunting makes you a massive twat, but the fact is it's legal (if you have the right permits of course). AIBU to think that using social media to name and shame people going about lawful activity is pretty twattish in its own right?

No I disagree. If you want to kill peaceful animals like a Giraffe and are prepared to pose for a photograph with its dead body like the twat you are, you deserve all the grief that results from the disgusting act.

She's a wanker.

In that case, no massive twat.

But the social media naming and shaming of a poorly shot video of someone having a disagreement with a shop worker or bus driver really gets on my nerves.

They didn't follow her around to get the photos. She posted them online; to boast about it. She deserves the response to their to be honest and draw attention to the damage thar she's doing; instead of hundreds of likes.

If she wanted to do it privately, she could have done so. She wanted the attention. She has no right to demand positive attention only.

Plus, to be honest, this is the best chance we have of this type of thing being made illegal.

she deserves all the abuse she gets, she's disgusting.
sometimes naming and shaming isn't appropriate and sometimes it is

Hmmm. Technically I agree, however, trophy hunting is so, so awful and as there's not really a risk of mistaken identity (as they proudly pose for photos) I can't really get too worked up about them being named and shamed.

There was a story that went viral recently about a girl who posted a photo of her and a 'holiday friend' as children on Twitter and asked the site to track her down her, which people did (I think within hours). I thought it was scary that despite me not using social media, I could become viral and have millions of people tracking me down and sharing information about me. Scary.

I'm sure the number of female trophy hunters is tiny - funny that there the ones to get so much naming and shaming.

If she wanted to do it privately, she could have done so. She wanted the attention. She has no right to demand positive attention only.

^this!

I don't personally share them but can see why some people do.
There are lots of genuine hunters out there who do it for population control (very much needed with Scottish deer for example) who don't pose with their kill, thrilled with their slaughter.

What I really, really cannot stand though is shared pictures for likes (and more shares) of things like a so-called abused child or beaten dog.
Many of these are fakes. One that sticks in my mind is a photo of a "beaten" child covered in cuts. The caption said she was abused. The comments were full of thousands of people calling for the child vile abusive parent's heads.

The photo was actually taken from a news story about a 2yo who was bitten and hurt by another 2yo at nursery and the situation was dealt with.

If that were my child being shared around the internet as a poster child against child abuse I would be furious.

Snopes.com is your friend, people.

She posted the pictures; she suffers the backlash.
Seems fair enough.

Nope, I hope her life is made hell.

Anyone who kills these beautiful animals for pleasure deserves to be named and shamed. Perhaps she shouldn't have been a smart arse posing and pouting for the camera.
No sympathy sorry. I'll save that for the poor innocent creature.

No sympathy for her or any of her kind at all.

No, she is a piece of scum, lots of people don’t know about trophy hunting, same as lots of people near me aren’t aware that our local trail hunters regularly hound a fox to death. That’s all apparently legal too if it’s an ‘accident’.

I hate naming and shaming and “deserving everything she gets” is just immature bullying. The internet has made too many people think they’re god

I look at it like this, you're unlikely to be named and shamed if you don't do stuff in camera view - you know, like EVERYWHERE - that you can be named and shamed for. In this case I'd say this woman who posed for and posted the picture was fair game - pun intentional.

I'm sure the number of female trophy hunters is tiny - funny that there the ones to get so much naming and shaming

I don’t see it as a feminist issue at all, there are far more (proportionally) male hunters shared on social media, particularly from
SA.

Someone has to be a voice for defenceless animals and I have no problem with it at all.

What I feel very uncomfortable with is the self publicising of peadaphile hunters which leads to targeting and violence towards the alleged perpetrators. That should not be done by any civilian.

She obviously doesn't feel any shame in what she has done, given her online boasting. Everyone with half a brain cell these days knows that things you put on social media go a lot further than you may have intended, particularly if they are about a particularly incendiary topic.

So she can take all she gets coming to her. I bet she has a hell of a lot more chance to survive it than her 'prey' did.

I'm sure the giraffe thinks yabvu!