Anti-Racist Group Billboard Showcase Posts Made By Offenders; Ads Placed Near Their Homes!
An anti-racism billboard was put up in different locations showing Facebook posts of the suspects located near their homes.
Anti-racist group has located Facebook users' place using a geo-tagging system along with the help of social media companies. The group displayed users' racist posts on billboards for everyone in the location to see.
The Virtual Racism is a campaign first launched in Brazil to respond on racist Facebook comments about the first black weather reporter named Maria Julia Coutinho. A comment displayed on one of the billboards saying, "If she bathed, she wouldn't get dirty," according to Daily Mail.
An Anti-racist group that promotes Afro-Brazilian civil rights, Criola is responsible for posting the racist posts on billboards found from either Twitter or Facebook. The anti-racist group started in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro with purpose to encourage female Afro-Brazilian of any age to fight against racism, homophobia and sexism for a better Black population in Brazil.
Criola founder Jurema Werneck said, "Those people think they can sit in the comfort of their homes and do whatever they want on the internet," according to Telegraph.co.uk.
"We don't let that happen. They can't hide from us, we will find them," Werneck added.
Despite that the anti-racist group posted offensive posts on billboards, the have secured culprits' identity by pixelating their name and picture. A description posted on the campaign's website saying, "We just want to educate people so that in future they think about the consequences before posting racist comments," reported by Mashable.
Posting racist comments on social media is considered as a law violation in Brazil however, authorities are still criticized by the society for not strictly enforcing it.
The anti-racist group seeks to show the people in the internet that they are not free to post racial comments or posts that may cause consequences for the people involved.
