By all accounts, Cleveland’s Charles Ramsey is a fairly regular guy, a blue-collar working man, working when he can find work. There are a lot of people like that in America. They don’t attend wine tasting parties, they don’t do angel investing, they don’t have Invisalign, they don’t sound like Morgan Freeman when they’re speaking. A regular guy.
Your author, at the age of forty-one, considers himself a “digital native”, having programmed computers since the age of eight and being intimately familiar with everything from TCP/IP to cloud computing. Mr. Ramsey is my age, but his American experience has been very different. He was confused by the attention paid to his case, unsure as to why McDonald’s was “tweeting” about him or even what “tweeting” was, and he had no idea that he would immediately become the subject of “memes” the moment his face appeared on the television.
Most importantly, and this is highly relevant for his life, the lives of the children he helped save, and for the lives of people who might need help from someone like him in the future, he had no idea that he would be doxxed.