I'm not sure if this is manipulative, scary, brilliant, hilarious, or all three. A brand new PC game called "Internet Eyes" will allow players to view thousands of CCTV cameras around the United Kingdom and essentially act as a snitch, reporting any crimes they discover. The most successful rat will win £1,000.
Every time a player finds something suspicious, they click their mouse. The camera operator will then receive an SMS message along with a snapshot of the naughty activity.
"I wanted to combine the serious business of stopping crime with the incentive of winning money," said Internet Eyes mastermind Tony Morgan. "We've had a lot of interest from local businesses and hope to roll it out nationwide and then worldwide."
The Web-based "game" will launch next month in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, with a site that also includes a criminal Hall-of-Fame. The "snooper's paradise" will rent cameras to businesses around the country for £20 a week, meaning that not only will the police force have ordinary citizens doing their job for them, they'll make a bit of cash on the side. It's quite a genius scheme, really.
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3:00 PM on 10.06.2009
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God bless you internet.
And in tomorrow's news: The premiere of Death Race UK. Except this one's real.
Hookers ply their trade - right there in the open, and it's not at all unusual to see drug deals.
People should realize that there are cameras everywhere.
Except without the spaceships and other cool stuff. Sadface.
"No way, there might actually be somebody behind that camera!"
Combine troops have entered the base! Combine troops have entered the ----!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
All four?
Can you elaborate as to why you think this is so bad? I'm not saying it is or isn't, I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from. I see problems with the system but not because it will "condition people to become snitches".
SNITCHES DIE QUICK.
Nuff Said.
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Justice can't exist without the testimony of witnesses, kids.
No, but now my sides hurt from laughing.
A screen from Mickeys new game perhaps?
Any excuse to clamp down on what little liberty we have left in England.
I go with all four, this is genius.
I'd kinda like to buy drugs in peace, thanks.
not good.
not good at all.
1) Find a proxy. Any proxy will do.
2) Boot up "Internet Eyes".
3) *click*
4) *click*
5) *click*
6) Repeat steps 3-5 as fast as possible for as long as possible
7) Imagine looks on the cops' faces as their phones beep -constantly-
But I do like the Idea - yes I do like the police and I really, really hate criminals. The fact of the matter is that the UK is getting out of hand - kids stabbing each other, children as young as 10 trying to murder each other, kids getting pregnant at 13 - I know that's not the whole picture and that the media do exaggerate things, but crime has increased, and young people these days (I'm 22 myself) have no sense of decency or respect or honour. I used to live in a nice country (Australia) - but now we have people my age getting drunk and bashing each other in the streets, gangs of youths roughing up the elderly to steal money for drugs, jackasses who think its funny to play their music REALLY LOUDLY on the bus and not give a damn about their fellow passengers - sometimes I want a police officer to take a riot stick to the heads of these youths.
If you get drunk, vandalize, rob, spit or hurt other people, then I don't care what the police do to you or to any other criminal.
And you know why I support the police? BECAUSE I FOLLOW THE LAW TO THE LETTER. Laws enable society to function.