Some people would have us believe it's all YouTube's fault.
After all, the kids who assaulted that poor girl in Florida were spurred on by the desire to video tape the beat down, post it on YouTube and become infamous and/or popular. If only YouTube would, they argue, exercise better screening and censorship this sort of thing wouldn't happen.
To which I reply: are you freakin' NUTS?!
Think about this for a moment, please: you have a population segment willing to commit felony assault against others AND THEY ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO MAKE VIDEO EVIDENCE OF THEIR CRIMES and then put copies of that evidence ON A PUBLIC FORUM where people like police and prosecutors can see it. The only way this gets any better is if they drive themselves to the police station to save our law enforcement servants some gas money.
People like those teens in Florida are willing to commit violence because they learned at an early age that violence is acceptable. We can sit here all day and debate in circled about "Who is responsible?"-- the parents, YouTube, the kids themselves, etc. and get nowhere. But I think everyone knows and must agree that violence like this predates video Internet services like YouTube. Remember the wilding in Central Park? Before YouTube. Remember Kitty Genovese? BYT.
I just hope that violent creeps like that continue to post videos of their misdeeds on YouTube, so that police can get them off the streets and put them where they belong-- like the Jerry Spri-- I mean, jail. ;)
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