Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Blog 8 The Net Is The Real World

      According to the authors Jake Simms and Larry Magrid an incident not just with humans but with technology has lead to a crime from the criminals and a suicide from the victim. It happened at Rutgers University with young adult students. Their names are Dharun Ravi, Molly Wei, the criminals, and Tyler Clementi, the student who commited suicide. These inhuman students especially Ravi turned on the webcam where Clementi also were roommates. After that he went to Molly's room with the intention to invade Clementi's privacy by using the webcam he was in with Molly.
       What happens next would be cyberbullying and invasion of privacy where Ravi streams Clementi kissing another guy to the world on Twitter. As a result according to the passage Clementi commits one of the rarest desperate acts which is to take his own life by jumping off the Washington Bridge. As a result Ravi and the conspirator Molly will pay the consequences thanks to New Jersey's privacy law which makes this selfish crime illegal. Hopefully, also they will get booted from Rutgers University.
        Due to this unfortunately as stated in the passage like it or not, the net now is reality for the overwhelming majority of children and adults in the developed world and the rest of it. This is significantly changing attitudes or moods like what happened to Clementi and some others. This is the most dangerous of them all because we are hearing different kinds of stories in the news all yeasr and it can wreck your life for a long time. This is why parents should stop the excuses of them being at work all day and not buy them webcams and moniter who they talk to.
       As for the situation within these students Clementi should have been stronger. This might be just the beginning of all of this. It almost reminded  me of the movie from the 70s where only machines moniter humans. People are just becoming obsessed with this by letting kids do this and it has resulted in many suicides by teens.

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