I disagree with your last paragraph, though. These weren't "anonymous" people, they were liars (often using their real identities and definitely using their real faces). There have been con artists for decades.
These people aren't trying to steal money and sneak off into the darkness. They're trying to brute force their way into their version of success, where their actual real identities are attached.
It’s about time for some actual ‘experience and responsibility matter’ to come back - but it will have to get worse before it gets better, and hopefully we don’t get stuck in the ‘scam zone’
I'd flip that sideways a bit and say that it's normalized the achievement of success (that is, the end rewards) to consumers / viewers, while omitting the effort to get there, to such a degree that no one thinks to look for or ask "How?"
Everything in the BBC article was pretty trivially verifiable. But most people didn't. That feels wrong.
I'm shocked that apparently no one looked up the supposed Madbird office (edit: except for Gemma, who had been working there already for two weeks!). Has covid really made people so comfortable working at home to the point where they don't care to know where their employer's physical office is? Especially for the people who were "hired" abroad. In my mind, I would be extra careful to audit a potential employer if they're based in a different country than where I live.
90k Instagram followers is all the verification most people need.
> The tribunal order was made against the company, not against Ali Ayad as an individual. So if Madbird was insolvent, like Ali said, there was no way the tribunal could force it to pay any of the owed wages.
Even if you are a Delaware corporation for stock purposes, there is some paperwork that grants you reciprocity in California and allows you to operate there. As part of that, you are subject to certain California laws.
There's already movement to remove this [0], whether or not it's approved by the public, and whether or not it's deemed to actually be helpful at all by the experts in the field.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/28/coali...
they learned a valuable lesson.
I'm not sure if we need to put safety guards on every possible bad thing that can happen in the world
Uh, it's literally the job of government to protect people from themselves.
Taking that a step further, I do wonder if crimes like this will get public sentiment behind removing anonymity from the Internet. There's plenty of reasons to keep people's privacy. But society will only tolerate so much criminal behavior before handing over their freedom for order.