Saturday, December 5, 2009

9. An Online Tragedy


Voyeurism is one of the methods of attracking attention, even if it has horrible results, and sometimes we can describe that kind of voyeurism as a serious psychological illness, like a 19-year-old boy from Florida has. The mentioned boy keeps on saying she will commit suicide but noone thinks he is serious till that day. First he writes a suicide note and then he commits suicide while 1500 people's online watching.


According to the article I read about this case, the ceo of the mentioned website, Michael Seibel tells that they have absolute rules about these kinds of cases and they have removed the video immediately, but here comes to mind if it is possible any of the charged people like an admin not to realize such a big occasion happenning, or could not they prevent him to do it online on their website after his suicide note?




1 comment:

  1. This is a very interesting case...can you include the name of the web site and create a hyperlink to the article you mentioned? Several other students brought up this case in class, so they may be interested in reading more...

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