Local social media networks, long places for recipe swaps and restaurant tips, are rapidly becoming sites where neighbours police neighbours during the global coronavirus pandemic. Shaming is really one of the only tools we have," says Dr Emily Laidlaw, an associate professor at the University of Calgary who studies privacy law and online shaming. Public shaming is against community guidelines and comments deemed as falling into the category will be removed, according to the app. 'PLEASE STOP BEING SO JUDGMENTAL'"There's definitely social shaming. Laidlaw said policing and shaming were already on their way to being normalized online before the pandemic, noting that "shaming sites are not new, nor are neighbourhood watch/surveillance sites".

Source: Daily Nation April 16, 2020 03:45 UTC