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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:10 AM Original message |
That poor kid who killed himself, Tyler Clementi? It was the Internet's fault. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. I can't help but wonder how those two students feel. I'm guessing they'll leave |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. So I don't know if they did not question themselves |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. True. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. yeah, the fact that they did what they did indicates they are the type who doesn't give a shit |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Have they been interviewed - or do you mean that's your opinion of how they |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #21 |
40. It's just my opininon |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I was just curious because I think they've been glaringly absent from the |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. the Whole country, World should know who they are and what they did |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. It is theft of privace. |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. I wish the poor kid would have gotten a motel room for his tryst.. Isn't that |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. why should he ? |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Because he probaby would still be alive!!! |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:29 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. he would be alive if his privacy wasn't invaded by scum |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Chances are if he would have gotten a motel room - he'd still be alive!!! |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:43 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. i guess you can say he would be alive if he didn't have sex, if he didn't go to rutgers |
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mkultra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #14 |
44. or if he didnt kill himself. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Alive and dealing with the trauma of having had your sex life broadcast to the world. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:56 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. "She shouldn't have dressed that way." |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:06 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Was he a politician? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
23. It's not what college students do. What he did was absolutely routine. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
24. He was paying to live there. "Back of the bus" attitudes indulge the cruelty |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 07:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. Nice way to blame the victim here. nt |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 11:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
43. It's college and everyone here knows that a lot of |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. i hope they get 5 years in prison and after that is over i hope their lives are miserable |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. OH, such bullshit. |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. It's obviously the fault of electricity, in numerous definitions of such. n/t |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
12. I couldn't disagree with you more. |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Well put. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:13 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. So, that's why the kid killed himself? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:35 AM Original message |
He killed himself because he was traumatized by what had happened to him. |
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ThomasQED (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
35. I hadn't even thought of that :-( |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
39. I'm not stalking you, but I think five years is plenty of time. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #39 |
46. Being grossed out that your roommate is gay isn't an excuse |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:35 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. delete (dupe) |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:35 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. delete (dupe) |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 08:46 AM Response to Reply #20 |
33. Hmm. I concede that I was being hyperbolic about the hosannas. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-02-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #33 |
48. And I apologize for disagreeing disrespectfully. |
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ThomasQED (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 08:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
34. a world that has blurred the line between public and private |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 07:33 AM Response to Reply #12 |
32. +1. or we can pretend there is no issue. agree with your post nt |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
36. +10 I believe technology is creating a world where people think they're always |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:26 AM Response to Original message |
22. It is TRUE that the Internet has made possible a whole new form of bullying. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 03:46 AM Response to Original message |
28. An absurd conclusion by someone who wanted to slam the internet. |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
29. Same syndicated story appeared in local paper where his parents live. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
31. use someones name, and it will always come up in a google search. that is a pretty powerful weapon |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
37. If the Internet didn't exist and his activities had been caught on |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
38. We are being conditioned to accept govt control of the Internet, slowly but surely. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
41. Dangers of "social networking/media," not the Internet in general BUT |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
45. The Internet doesn't kill people. People kill people. n/t |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
47. I didn't get that from the article |
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