Cellphone Vigilantes: How Mexicans Are Shaming the Country's 'Royalty' on Social Media Rafa Fernandez De Castro - Fusion
go to original February 25, 2016

Exasperated by the entitlement of the rich and well-connected, Mexicans are starting to take justice into their own hands — with their cellphones.

It’s a new digital form of vigilante justice, where people use their phones to record whoever is behaving like an ass in public, and then bring it before the court of public opinion by uploading it to social media.

In a country where many Mexicans feel they have no access to real justice, the cellphone vigilantism has become an important tool to fight back against entitlement, abuse and impunity among society’s untouchable elite.

And the Mexican internet is rewarding their efforts by making the videos and hashtags go viral.

Here’s a notorious Mexican affluenza case of a drunk driver who screams that his daddy is the president:



...The social media vigilante videos are unlikely to stop, because they’ve tapped into the people’s frustrations with two problems that have run amock in Mexico: classism and entitlement. Read the rest at Fusion

Related: Mexico City Officials Are Shaming Litterbugs and Parking Hogs on Periscope, and People Love It (Quartz)

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