Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by kenj0418 on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @04:22PM
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This isn't the police (or any other government agency) posting the pictures, its an individual. If the accused thief doesn't like that he has been accused of being a thief he can sue the blog author for defamation (libel/slander).
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I know he can sue. My point isn't that it's illegal, my point is that I don't like it. I also don't like it when newspapers do exactly the same thing, accuse people of crimes before they have been convicted.
Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by kenjackson on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @04:43PM
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It appears he just says that this guy has his MacBook, not that he stole it. He says his MacBook was stolen and this guy has it. But doesn't say that this guy stole it.
Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by rcthompson on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @08:59PM
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The caption on the photo at the bottom of the page (presumably the first picture chronologically) says "Guy driving away with my MacBook." Combined with the assertion that the laptop is stolen, it's hard to read this as anything other than an accusation of theft.
Thanks, that's a really nifty insight.