Posted on 09/30/2010 5:50:53 PM PDT by Tribemike1
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet's alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.
Cruel gossip and vengeful acts once confined to the schoolyard or the dorm can now make their way around the world instantly via the Internet, along with photos and live video.
"It's just a matter of when the next suicide's going to hit, when the next attack's going to hit," said Parry Aftab, a New Jersey lawyer who runs the website WiredSafety.
Last week, Tyler Clementi, a shy, 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman and gifted violist, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and another classmate allegedly used a webcam to secretly broadcast his dorm-room sexual encounters with another man. The two classmates have been charged with invasion of privacy, with the most serious charges carrying up to five years in prison.
The suicide shocked and disturbed gay rights activists and others on campus....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Actually I was suprised that this news story was not a “gay victim of society” that ABC News/Disney is running with. This story actually was more cyber bullying which is the right approach.
The liberal media is almost using kid gloves on Ravi from India and Molly from China. If it had been kids like the boys on the Duke LaCrosse team then they would have been lynched. Ravi and molly are being treated nicer than they deserve because they are multi-cultural.
Who was the older man with the student in the video? A professor perhaps? Uploading a live video stream fro the public is a mean trick. Molly and Ravi deserve some major jail time and should be banned from any U.S. college.
It’s a very sad story. I don’t think he needed to kill himself. I hope those two bastards who did this pay dearly in life.
You should have given a warning about that one site. I clicked on the link and got way more than I bargained for... just ugh, gross, and perversion to the nth degree.
Satan destroys people in so many ways and technology is apparently making his job easier and faster than ever.
The title of this news story should read:
NJ student’s suicide illustrates the Dangers of Perversion
This does not illustrate danger of the Internet, but instead the danger of mixing homosexuals and hetrosexuals in housing.
once heard someone say, “Always remember, ‘syumpathy’ lands between ‘sh*t’ and ‘syphilis’ in the dictionary....”
I used to hear that a lot from NCOs when I was in USAF.
“You should have given a warning about that one site. I clicked on the link and got way more than I bargained for... just ugh, gross, and perversion to the nth deg”
I agree! I thought the link was to a news article, and I had to see something very disgusting. I am with you, Paved Paradise, when people post objectionable materials as links, they should give warning. You are right, Satan has found an easy way to devour.
There, fixed it for the Associated Presstitutes and those yahoos that print this crap.
Hint: “Begin PGP public key block”
Please indicate next time if the links you post contain graphic material. I thought your link was to a news article, not to a horrible picture.
I guess that is the kind of thing you trip upon while googling parts for ones rototiller?
I wonder what the coverage would have been had they been muslims....then we could ask, “ why did they hate him?” and sweep it under the rug ala the Fort Hood Massacre.
Especially horrific when you think of the left and many here, dress up anal sex in flowery civil rights language.
It is a HUGE deadly lie that kills generations of our children.
yeah, I wasn’t happy. I thought the same as you - link to news post (not gay porn site).
I totally agree. If they had been American Christian kids then they would have already burned them at the stake. American Christian kids would not have pulled this mean trick and criminal felony.
I wish I had been at Fort Hood and was armed. There would never had been a trial for Mohammed.
He should get a firing squad and it should be soon.
I totally agree. If they had been American Christian kids then they would have already burned them at the stake. American Christian kids would not have pulled this mean trick and criminal felony.
I wish I had been at Fort Hood and was armed. There would never had been a trial for Mohammed.
He should get a firing squad and it should be soon.
No one has said that dorms should not be used for sex hook ups. People will argue that they are adults. Dorms are very small. Students should not be asked by other students to stay out of the room until Midnight.
Ravi should have just told him - NO.
Call me old and Dumb or .. just dumb if you prefer but .. I still don’t have a clue.
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