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 ...
All this says is that the kid apparently knew about the spying (webcam). Where do you get the porn movie or the argument with lover?
Look, I realize that there is a lot of stuff that we don’t know about this case (situation), but I don’t think it’s right to make up stuff and maybe you did not but where did you get the info that made you make the movie and argument comments?
I did.
The first one is a news article that is posted on FR.
The second is from the news article, I labeled it NSFW.
The suicide victim’s own college homosexual porn site that he performed on...with feedback, ie, he knew the world was watching and communicated with the viewers afterwards.
I've also been wondering the same thing. I looked for articles about their backgrounds, but I didn't see anything.
PGP stands for “Pretty Good Privacy”, a publicly available encryption protocol. The big block of “gibberish” is his public key, which you could use with your own private key to send him encrypted emails.
“The second is from the news article, I labeled it NSFW.”
What does NSFW mean?
Yes, it was horrible, and I looked on Google news to find articles about the backgrounds of these two degenerates. I found nothing so far.
The danger wasn’t the internet. The dangers were many and NONE were the internet.
A University that encourages homosexuality. A college culture that encourages casual hook ups. No moral codes, only codes of perversion, for loose sexuality is norm and perverted sexuality in a college town like Rutgers is celebrated.
There are many suicides at such colleges. Many involve the fall out of such lack of morality, for it is a trap to the young.
This is not new with internet, it has nothing to do with the internet.
Well, I can’t look (and I don’t want to look either), but still where is the info about him wanting to be a porn star coming from? I’m not sure I buy that.
Thank You Boogieman.
Why? There can be no conceivable defense against the techology that is coming, no matter who or where you are. Read David Brin’s “The Transparent Society”
The link to Clementi's posted porn has been posted on here and removed because it was a direct link to a porn site.
It is he who is sitting in front of his computer...performing sex acts to the camera, then typing responses to his viewers.
Btw, his viewers are now writing in RIPs to his site.
Does that clear it up?
Electricity is dangerous. Stairs are dangerous. Swimming pools are dangerous. Bathtubs can be dangerous. Pillows can be dangerous.
Yet, somehow, we survive without any of these being regulated by the federal government.
Odd that Yahoo would take this tack, promoting regulation. Until you realize that big corporations prefer a regulated environment. It locks in their share of market...and keeps the riff-raff of competition out.
Big business and big labor will always favor big government. And vice-versa...
I view homosexuality as a mental disorder, I also view liberalism as a mental disorder
It’s the textual representation of one of my PGP public encryption keys. Google PGP and asymetric key cipher systems.
I have no idea why the kid killed himself.....if you’re gay, you’re gay....in this day and age it is no big deal but suicide lasts a long long time. “It is a very sad story and those that broadcast it should be given the maximum sentence.....pathetic people
Not suitable/safe for work (NSFW), not work-suitable/safe (NWS), or not school-suitable (NSS) is Internet slang or shorthand. Typically, the NSFW tag is used in E-mail, movies (such as on Youtube) and on interactive discussion areas (such as Internet forums, blogs and community websites) to mark URLs or hyperlinks which may be sexually explicit or include audio containing profanity, helping the reader avoid potentially objectionable content. For example, one may tag a URL as unsafe:
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