Sydney’s homeless are no joke, believe me. They rattle around unobtrusively, but you can see the debris, sometimes, around the inner city, and it’s staggeringly unfunny. Sydney is not pleased with Instagram right now. They’re real abuses of vulnerable people. The anger of locals was best expressed by Concrete Playground, a local site which described the Instagram account in appropriately abusive terms.
The Instagramming vermin got the message, and made the page “private.” That’s not good enough. These photos are an invasion of privacy.
More to the point, the “private” setting doesn’t work. Murdermall pics can still be searched on Google images, and many are now available on media sites.
Sick enough?
Never mind the basic ethics; this is a truly disgusting idea. This account invites photo submissions from Instagram users. “Poverty is funny,” eh? According to the Daily Mail UK, there are about 2000 followers of this Instagram account.
For those who don’t know, this sort of targeting of homeless people is part of a type of harassment of the homeless which has been going on for years in various forms. The scum doing it are typically from privileged, if evolutionarily retarded, backgrounds. It’s usually carried out by middle class trash and the plutobrat element, the “socially superior” vermin we all love so much.
Boycott Instagram? Or hit it with a class action? Or both?
Whether Instagram likes it or not, it’s now aware of these photos and can be alleged to be a party to the issues and any injuries caused.
These pictures are an invasion of privacy by any standards, taken without the subjects’ consent. Too many lines have been crossed.
How about someone educates these Instagram photographers about what real suffering feels like?
Instagram’s motto is Capture and Share the World’s Moments. Wanna capture and share a few sincere size 10 expressions of anger? I doubt it. Get this filthy crap offline, NOW, and be quick about it.
Readers — sorry for some editing issues in the original draft. So angry I didn’t look.
