Michael Geist notes the double-edged sword of the emerging gargoye culture:

While there are some obvious benefits that arise from the transparency and potential accountability that can come from video evidence of controversial events, the emergence of an always-on video society raises some difficult questions about the appropriate privacy-transparency balance, the ethics of posting private moments to a global audience, and the responsibility of websites that facilitate Internet video distribution.

(For the gargoyle reference, see: google: gargoyle+stephenson