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by emodendroket 3120 days ago
What effect will that even have on them if police departments don't care?
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It's definitely not much, but having the first google result for someones name point to a dossier with ideally:

* Name, DoB

* Some decent photos for easy identification

* Footage of them murdering someone, pages like this without solid evidence don't seem like a good thing.

* Collection of news articles, court documents

* Contact information (social media, home address(es), phone numbers)

* Employers contact information

it's not nothing.

Hopefully it'll at least hurt their future employment prospects a little, maybe make it harder for them to find a place to rent. At the very least it'll be easier for their neighbors to find out that they're living next to a killer.

Best case scenario they'll waste a lot of their time and money trying to get the site taken down via legal means. From experience I would expect many of these folks to drive themselves crazy trying to do that, generating further source material and drawing even more attention to their past.

The somewhat unlikely worst case scenario is that it simply doesn't bother them at all.

> The somewhat unlikely worst case scenario is that it simply doesn't bother them at all.

People ask George Zimmerman for his autograph.

People try to shoot George Zimmerman in the head.