Apparently, Mexican drug gangs are using YouTube to distribute threats to their enemies. Add this to the Stop Snitchin’ video, which threatened the lives of drug informants in the U.S. and made the rounds in inner cities a few years ago, and we see a somewhat disturbing (though not wholly unexpected) trend of criminals using new technology not just for operations, but for marketing. These days, it seems, everyone’s an advertiser.

Jeremy Kahn, by the way, had a sharp piece on witness intimidation in last month’s Atlantic.