<story><title>Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Citizen, using a new livestreaming service it had just launched called OnAir, would catch the suspect live on air, with thousands of people watching.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry, is this describing real life or an episode of Black Mirror? It&amp;#x27;s so blatantly dystopian that I&amp;#x27;m at a loss for words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deckard1</author><text>Minority Report came out in 2002. I remember people were talking about the targeted advertising going on in the movie. Two years later Facebook came out along with their pitch deck[1]. Now that movie seems quaint.&lt;p&gt;Developers and entrepreneurs are actively chasing dystopia. We&amp;#x27;ve become increasingly numb and blasé about the encroachment of the internet and smartphones into our lives. Eventually we&amp;#x27;ll have The Running Man with live streaming. The end result of our social isolation and filter&amp;#x2F;engagement bubbles due to technology is moral apathy and rot. To speak the VC speak, the past few years have validated a market for cruelty, hate, and mob justice. The only question left is, &lt;i&gt;how do I buy in today&lt;/i&gt;? Citizen seems like an early answer to this.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;app.slidebean.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;s15UZQkE7T&amp;#x2F;Facebooks-original-pitch-deck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;app.slidebean.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;s15UZQkE7T&amp;#x2F;Facebooks-original-pi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Citizen, using a new livestreaming service it had just launched called OnAir, would catch the suspect live on air, with thousands of people watching.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry, is this describing real life or an episode of Black Mirror? It&amp;#x27;s so blatantly dystopian that I&amp;#x27;m at a loss for words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a scene taken almost directly from Fahrenheit 451.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sparknotes.com&amp;#x2F;lit&amp;#x2F;451&amp;#x2F;section9&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sparknotes.com&amp;#x2F;lit&amp;#x2F;451&amp;#x2F;section9&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>