What happens to your dental practice when the Internet finds out you illegally killed a beloved lion?
And so we see the saga of dentist Walter Palmer of Bloomington, Minnesota -- an avid hunter whose (now invisible or removed) Facebook page used to be festooned with images of him proudly displaying the dead corpses of beautiful animals he killed. Unfortunately for Palmer, his latest kill was illegal, of a famous, beloved, and GPS-collared lion in Zimbabwe named Cecil, lured out of a preserve to his death (reports are that attempts were made to destroy the collar after the fact). Palmer of course claims he thought the hunt was legal. But he has a little problem there -- a previous felony conviction for lying about a previous illegal hunt. So his credibility is something less than zero. Needless to say, his Yelp ratings have taken, uh, a bit of a downward turn: http://www.yelp.com/biz/palmer-walter-j-dntst-minneapolis If you were planning to have your teeth worked on by this guy anytime in the next 20 years, you might want to consider making other arrangements. He's probably planning a move to Europe now so he can try file a Right To Be Forgotten request. Good luck with that, Palmer. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
