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By jumping off a bridge after getting outed.

Yes, some laws are stupid. This is not one of them. Video taping two people having sex against their consent and distributing it? It's not stupid to have a law about that. I'm not sure what world you live in where that should be ok.

If they didn't know how he would react they just shouldn't have done it in the first place. There was no reason for doing what they did. They had only been in school, as roommates for about a month. That's definitely not a lot of time to get to know people. He was apparently a polite guy for asking for some privacy which he obviously didn't receive. You could almost say it was an anti-gay act. Obviously we don't know the entire story behind Tyler and his roommates relationship but it's pretty obvious his roommate knew he was gay and went ahead with it.



I understand the article in the OP wasn't the best article. Which is why I posted a couple others. Though you can still go out and find them all over anyways.

I'm sure in the near future there will be laws put into place that will allow offenders to be charged with more serious offenses that will put them away for a lot longer. There always has to be consequences for your actions. Take the MySpace hoax incident with the girl. They didn't know she would commit suicide either. But in the end they were pretty much the reason she lost her life. I don't know what the final outcome of that case was. I don't know if she was ever charged with anything or not. But there has to be some sort of consequence for the action you take.

So, yes I believe in the future they will implement laws that will allow you to be charged with some form of murder and they are right to do so.

Oh, yes, filming people having sex and putting it up on the internet is just a school boy prank, totally fucking harmless. And they're "roomies", of course - what a lovely little diminutive - so everything's candy hearts and fluffy bunnies, right? It's all just a little joke that some headcase took way too seriously, right? It's his fault he's dead, really.

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Edited, Sep 30th 2010 6:43pm by Vlorsutes

I dunno; I've always liked Bruce Springsteen.

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Maybe. Complete imbecility is no excuse before the law; it doesn't matter.

Now's the time for another episode of good idea/bad idea.

Your roommate asks for the room for a few hours.

1. Good idea: Talk to your RA about being sexiled.
2. Bad idea: Secretly tape him and stream it online.

No, let's rename this "Good idea, illegal and idiotic idea."

Shadow, I can see where you're coming from. 99+% of the time pranks are harmless. Hazing doesn't always lead to terrible consequences. But everyone knows that it can turn horrific. It's like playing binge drinking, drunk driving, or bullying. The vast majority of the time it ends up ok and no one gets hurt... at least not seriously. But there are laws and rules in place because it's been shown that people can and eventually will get hurt for these things.

At my alma-mater, hazing was banned by the school. People who hazed others would be suspended, or expelled for repeat offenses. Frats would be kicked off campus. it was taken VERY seriously. Any official group activity needed approval. A sorority friend of mine noted that they couldn't do a scavenger hunt because once upon a time someone claimed it was hazing. It can be over the top, but it's because it can go very wrong. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Someone got hurt here, and the people who set it up deserve punishment.



And yet none of this changes the fact that the two students broke the law. They should still be charged.

Which is why I think it should not be a hate crime. They should without a doubt still be charged.

I believe it could be considered a hate crime. The roommate filmed Tyler on 2 separate occasions, one being kissing another male the other must have involved sex. After the first video taping and seeing that Tyler is indeed kissing another man you could easily come to the conclusion that Tyler is either curious or gay. Then doing it again knowing full well what is going to happen is going beyond a little prank. Which is where I think it could be considered a hate crime, because at the second taping the roommate had must have had a guess about Tyler's sexuality.

Now I know the 2 won't be charged with any of that and I'm not saying they should be. I'm just saying how one could consider it a hate crime.

I vehemently oppose the idea of hate crimes, but that doesn't make Shadow any less of an idiot.



Oh my god...I think he's Alma.

Edited, Sep 30th 2010 7:06pm by Eske

Are you totally fucked in the head?

Yes, there's a difference between concrete evidence and rumour and speculation, but that's not the issue here; the issue is that someone video taped someone else having sex and uploaded it to the internet. No, it's not clear it was the outing that led to his suicide, what on earth makes you think so? Even if it is true, how does it make any less of a crime to violate someone else's privacy in such a way? You're not some kind of intellectual, you're not the voice of reason crying out in the wilderness. We're not all clouded by our emotions, you're just a sociopath with no idea how people work and what is and isn't acceptable behaviour.

There's no niche here for your particular brand of idiocy - there are plenty of own-brand retards here that think they're fucking geniuses. Go back to you incestuous clusterfuck of a forum and stay there.

Explain how this law is unconstitutional? If someone is filming me without my consent then I believe it is totally within my rights to tell them to stop or take action against them. They can concede the tape to me and if they don't they I have every right to press charges against them. In this case it couldn't go down like that it was straight up posted on the internet for all to see. So I don't see how this can come off as unconstitutional.

There could also be some action taken against the roommate or the iChat service he used to stream the video for explicit content. Though I don't know anything about the sevice used or it's Terms of Use which it could have that all covered in there.

I don't know how this works in the USA, but over here it is perfectly legal to photograph or record people in a public place. The issues start with publishing the material, the possible damage done to you and how recognizable you are.
Once you enter a private place it is no longer legal for me to even record anything without your consent and depending on where you record the conset of the owner of the property.

But if I choose to film you walking down the street you could yell at me for the tape/memory card all you want, you can **** right off and you have no right at anything.