Oh God, there’s this one Black Mirror episode, Shut Up And Dance, and you just made me imagine Lisa being in charge of a similar scheme.
*looks up the synopsis on Wikipedia*
Huh. Well, that’s something, alright. Maybe I’d have to actually watch it to really appreciate it, but from the synopsis alone, it’s unclear which message is supposed to have most weight. Don’t watch child porn? Be careful what you install? It’s fun to pit bad people against each other with blackmail? Are the hackers supposed to be seen as the goodguys of the episode?
Also, did the bank robbery have anything to do with anything? Was that just to make the police arrest Kenny, when they could have him arrested just for the child porn in the first place, which is what I assumed was happening until right before starting this sentence (not to mention the murder of the guy in the forest)? Or were the hackers using that to make their victims believe the hackers’ motives were monetary?
I should probably stop criticizing the narrative of an episode I haven’t seen of a show I haven’t seen (but have discussed and seen other episode synopses of).
But yeah, that sort of shenanigan seems like something Tattletale might enjoy doing, though I don’t think she’d make it a legit battle to the death sort of deal. She might make them think they had to battle to the death, but arrange for both to be arrested before they could do any real damage.
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