Blog 8- CATW Essay

The authors most important ideas in the passage are invasion of privacy, a young man committed suicide, students feel their dorm should be their private space, and online bullies. On Sept. 28 police arrested two students, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, on invasion of privacy charges. Ravi activated a web cam in the dorm room he shared with Tyler Clementi. Ravi, using his twitter account tweeted he saw his roommate, Tyler Clementi making out with another man using the web cam he set up in the room. The images of Clementi and the other man was posted live on the Internet and Clementi found out. Three days later, Clementi posted a farewell message on Facebook, then jumped off the George Washington bridge. Ravi and Wei could face prison time if found guilty. Students are upset. they expect their dorm to be private space, no one should invade that privacy. The Internet can encourage bullying. Professor John Suler put in his free 1996 online, book “The psychology of cyberspace” “people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face- to -face world”. New Jersey’s privacy law makes it a crime to send out or look at nude images or sex acts of somebody with out that persons approval. Dharun Ravi and molly Wei did a very cruel thing. They could be sentenced up to five years in prison. Anne collier, co-director of ConnectSafetly said that this story “ is not the machines responsible for Clementis death its the humans. Clementi didn't want to face anyone after he has been humiliated on the Internet. He killed himself, some people can turn to one side of the situation better than others. Being bullied can change a persons life for the worst. Online bullies never know how much suffering they are doing because they don't see the victims suffering.