On the tragedy of Tyler Clementi and what you can do to turn it into a better Internet for us all.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant The words come easily about a thoughtless incident engineered by unthinking adolescents appalling egregious selfish stupid malicious. The facts have flashed around the world. A freshman at Rutgers University, Tyler Clementi, literally just days into his first term, had an encounter with another student, a male student. His peeping tom roommates, one male, one female, had the bright idea of posting live feed of the tryst on the net for the titillation and second-hand jollies of a world that can't seem to get enough of the intrusive and lascivious, no matter how invasive the source. All this was bad enough, thoroughly, unequivocally wrong. But worse was quick to come. A young man in a new, strange environment learning what had been done, faced in his mind a future replete with embarrassing confessions at home, taunts from bigoted classmates, ridicule ...