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NJ student's suicide illustrates Internet dangers

Full story: LA Daily News

This June 2010 photo provided by the Ridgewood Patch shows Tyler Clementi, left, hugging a fellow student during his 2010 graduation from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, N.J. The death of Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman stirred outrage and remorse on campus from classmates who wished they could have stopped the teen from jumping off a ...

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Do you Question Me

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Sep 30, 2010
 
The internet is now becoming a fertile ground for bullies to lash out on others instead of the playground to spew their hate.
solipsism

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Oct 1, 2010
 
If you come out things get better.
JOJO

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Oct 3, 2010
 
Tyler made most of the choices here. But people are looking for scapegoats. Personal responsibility and
character are overlooked.
Susan

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Oct 4, 2010
 
JOJO wrote:
Tyler made most of the choices here. But people are looking for scapegoats. Personal responsibility and
character are overlooked.
What about the "personal responsibility" and "character" of the CRIMINALS who-not once but TWICE-went out their way and CHOSE to violate this young man's privacy--all the while pretending to be his friend!!?? We have truly hit a MORAL LOW (!) when we cannot EMPATHIZE with a CRIME VICTIM regardless of his personal "preferences"! The particular nature of this crime--the Internet-- is permanent and long reaching. For all this young man knew every single one of his professors and classmates saw him naked. Is this suppossed to be ok? Was he supposed to simply pretend this violation didn't happen?? GAY OR STARIGHT, IS THIS NOT SEVERLY DAMAGING???
RALPH NADER

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Oct 5, 2010
 
Susan wrote:
<quoted text>What about the "personal responsibility" and "character" of the CRIMINALS who-not once but TWICE-went out their way and CHOSE to violate this young man's privacy--all the while pretending to be his friend!!?? We have truly hit a MORAL LOW (!) when we cannot EMPATHIZE with a CRIME VICTIM regardless of his personal "preferences"! The particular nature of this crime--the Internet-- is permanent and long reaching. For all this young man knew every single one of his professors and classmates saw him naked. Is this suppossed to be ok? Was he supposed to simply pretend this violation didn't happen?? GAY OR STARIGHT, IS THIS NOT SEVERLY DAMAGING???
there are no bullying laws in schools but the police dont do much they come around later like the case in conetticut that was in people magazine where they student was harrased ubtil she comitted suicide.

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