Misinformation is quite obviously not the only problem. This was a video posted asking for someone to be blamed, and someone maliciously pointed a finger at someone who was close to being on the opposite side of the world at the time. If the malicious comment is removed but the video remains, someone else will be blamed. Leaving aside the whole issue of the futility of removing an object from the internet, the judge was correct in ascertaining that the problem was indeed the video, as it was an invitation to accuse, rather than serving any real purpose of justice. Everyone has been stiffed at some point, if some cabbie wants to make sure it doesn't happen again he should just spend some time showing the video to his colleagues. But the cabbies here are all probably too busy trying to get laws passed banning foreign drivers. Couldn't find a reference, but there was recently legislation here to affirm your right to skip taxis in a queue to find one that is to your liking, obviously because of cleanliness standards, or because you're a snob who insists on a Merc. Nothing to do with the fact the first guy in the queue was from Uganda, no sir, nothing like that at all.

Thats a bit unfair really. A lot of older people will have no idea about recent memes on the internet, despite being quite knowledgeable about computers. I know people who have worked in IT since they started out repairing mechanical counting machines, and if I ever need help with a tits-up RS-6000 I'll go straight to them for help. I doubt they'd know what the Streisand effect refers to. Why should a judge?

Sshhhhh. Go away with your common sense, the trolls want to burn the old man judge who doesn't understand the internet.

Aww guys, who voted this down. This deserves a +5 funny.

Wrong. The carbon in CO2 you breath out does come from the food you eat.

irony adjective Like goldy, or silvery, except made out of iron.

Yes, well New York is an engineering marvel. My dad worked in construction on the underground water supply system there, and the photos I saw of it were incredible. I live in a city that is officially 115 square km in size, probably 2000 when you include all the suburbs and outlying dormitory towns, all coming to a grand total of about 1.5 million people, and our rush-hour traffic isn't great. Manhattan has 15 million people commuting into an area under 90 square km every day. Building that density of infrastructure across an area the size of Texas would frankly be a waste if you were starting from scratch. Better off spending it on offworld colonisation.

Say that several times over really fast :D

You may have missed the point of the person you are replying to. I read it as referring to people who would want to attack the army, not those in it.

116ms on ADSL, Dublin.

Awww, c'mon, the man got -1 Insightful. He deserves an award of some sort.

I agree with that wholeheartedly. The counterpoint however, is that in America you can get tied up in the courts to the point of bankruptcy very easily against your will with no wrongdoing on your part. Don't assume that everything about your system is better. (Neither UK nor US here)

From the article:

The little article about Jimmy Saville appended to the bottom of the page was a particularly disgusting piece of work. The clear intention was to portray the teacher as a child abuser.

Not so important for you Americans I guess. Try living in Europe, or if u wanna stay over there, Alaska or Canada. Here in Ireland, in midwinter, even with daylight saving time, it gets bright (after some dawn twilight) soon after 9 am. It's dark again by 17:00. You go to work and come home from work in the dark. When mid-summer comes around, it starts getting too dark to see at about at 23:30 and gets bright again at 03:00. It's even more drastic in much of Europe. So, we'll be keeping daylight saving time, thankyou very much.