No one appears to have caught or understood the “I dare you to ...” put forth by this Ravi person, who also reportedly attempted to secretly record sexual activity in another recent, separate instance.
He appears to have been a budding porn website entrepreneur, building a following, flogging his illicit, secret sexual video recordings. This means that Tyler Clementi was nothing but fodder, a young, naive, sexually confused kid who got not just a predator for a roomate, but a predator with a profit motive.
In other words, this wasn’t a prank. It was a calculated business decision. “I dare you to ...” im’ed to 150 people. Family attorneys should subpoena all records of his iChat account, and those of every follower he had, and the story will take on a different character, imho.
I’m so sorry for the family. I’ve tried to tamp it down in my own way, without success. The public uproar seems destined only to mushroom. Such a painful loss, and to be taunted on and on by total strangers and boors on the internet. The world seems alien to me sometimes.
My understanding is that Ravi didn’t even know Tyler was gay, and he expected him to be with a girl.
So it kind of blows away any attempt to turn this into another “Matthew Shepard.”
Many schools have what are termed "quiet" dorms..which can requested by the more serious students..no booze, parties, loud music, late nights, and no sexual encounters in the rooms...the students sign a pledge to that effect..
If this Ravi guy is a budding pornographer..that's one thing..but let's assume for the moment that he wasn't comfortable with his roomie's homosexuality..so he acted stupidly in posting the video, with tragically unintended consequences..so, any similarities to DADT in the military...?hmmm?
It's a classic college prank, in which the perps, while knowingly doing wrong, had no idea what the consequence would be.
It was a calculated business decision. “I dare you to ...” im’ed to 150 people.
150 followers on Twitter does not a business make.
Family attorneys should subpoena all records of his iChat account, and those of every follower he had, and the story will take on a different character, imho.
So they should. And defense attorneys should google for cit2mo. LOL! Let the jury have the last laugh!