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Videotaped Florida Teen Beating Prompts Calls To Block Violent Content — Video — InformationWeek — What is the logic of blocking violent content if it gets these idiots busted?
The parents of a Florida teen who has lost her hearing and sight after she was attacked by other teens want video-enhanced Web sites like MySpace and YouTube to stop allowing users to post videos of such beatings.
Six other teens reportedly beat 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay on March 30, recorded it, and threatened to post the video on the two top visited sites. The local sheriff is also calling on the Web sites to stop allowing users to upload videos of beatings.
The teen has not fully recovered her hearing and sight one week after the videotaped beating, according to reports in The Ledger, in Lakeland, Fla.
What is wrong with these people? Where are the parents?
#29 I was just wondering how long it would take for someone to blame Bush.
I think you right, when Bush is gone, the violence will stop, just like BJs and smoking cigars did after Clinton was impeached.
#31 – You’re right. I haven’t had a good blow job or cigar since Billy-Bob left office. Coincidence, I think not.
#32–Monster==I do assume you misplaced your adjective.
Does 31 know that 29 was being sarcastic?
Hey, these kids didn’t invent this. There’ve always been kids like this. So what’s the story? Now we get to watch. This is a good thing, those of you acting surprised and outraged are probrably just forgetting. I’d say most have been victims or victimizers. If you’re forgetting, you were probrably a victimizer. I’m certain none of the girls involved will forget this. Good, it’s about time! Before the internet that poor kid would’ve got a beating and nobody would’ve been able to do a thing. Now these victimizers will get shamed for this, and perhaps face legal consequences. Blocking violent content would only protect the guilty.
#35 Would be great if the sentencing phase of the trial were put on the web. Great object lesson.
Nice, this video has *hit* Dutch semi-news programs. Quite shocking. This shit is a global issue. Not just in our country or just in the US do you see these things.
Maybe this is an issue that has been there for longer then we’d like to know and realize. It’s just now in the YouTube public being viewed everywhere.
I hope it shocked sufficient people to fix there mental issues differently.
Of course Bushit has nothing to do with this. #29 just said that to see the response by Ah_yeah types that think liberals blame everything on Bush. His upbringing may have resulted in some of his violent behavior and maybe that is shared by these kids’ upbringing but that just speculation at best.
Nope. This type of thing is an interesting social phenomena. There should be some limit on what can be showed but imposing such limits is very, very difficult and is a slippery slope at best. That’s why we (use to have?) an amendment to allow free speech in all its varied forms. Add to that posting such a video allows people to be more easily caught and you have one good argument for allowing people to post these things.
But you also have mentally disturbed copycats out there too. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was either put up as a “me too” or inspires the same. But I can’t justify censoring these just because there are crazies out there who may copy it. You see, (it’s suppose to be that) you have to commit a crime in this society before you’re tried for it. However, there is more than anecdotal evidence that showing such things on mass media again and again (and I would venture on non-interactive media such as television) does encourage more to imitate or at least “glorify” the behavior. Responsible media would show this very, very few times, if any. That IS what some who commit these crimes want – their “fifteen megabytes of fame” as someone above put it. So, I’d blame the yellow journalists on television for bad behavior in these matters much more than YouTube, who apparently didn’t have this up for long if at all anyway.
Can the parents even discipline the kids? Will Family Services step in and punish the parents for smacking the juvie bitches up side the head? Are the teachers able/willing to keep discipline in class?
Personality — Totally agree. Teen age girls and young women are more violent.
yeah, blocking any violent “content” on tv, internet, in the press, and lets remove it from books as well – it will certainly stop all the violence…
You people are fools.
Violence and agression is the part of human nature.
Perhaps if you spent more your time teaching your children how to control it, how to contain it, and first of all – how to defend themselves – videos like this wouldn’t have show completely defenseless inane girl being beaten up by some bully twice the size of her.
What is disturbing in this video is a complete lack of any defensive action. Assuming the beaten-up girl isn’t a masochist and wasn “innocent” of whatever the bullies accused her of, it is hard to understand why she even didn’t try to escape the room.
I was hoping the girl would grab that broom stick and stick it right up that girls ass. Or knock over the glass cabinet right onto the young bitch. I had this happen to me once. I was sucker punched just skateboarding down the street. Now I have a nice Glock and if some one tries to ever hurt me ever again its the last thing they will ever do. Refuse to be a victim.
This is great stuff. Our youth is preparing for the violence of fighting overseas. These gals will born great soldiers for the USA. Don’t keep them in jail too long.
Blame the parents! They’re the ones that taught them to do drugs, fight, and screw everything. Put the parents in prison for what they’ve done. If more parents go to prison our youth will be much better off. It’s their fault! Dammed old people.
Just know that there are about 5 kids that were NOT BEATEN today because of that video.
Not showing it, not making it available would make the humiliation she went through worthless.
There’s a BIG set of lessons here:
1. Don’t be an idiot (Learned by all)
2. Don’t go to an ex-friend’s house especially if they send boys to take you.
3. Don’t film felonies.
If we pretended that this didn’t exist none of these lessons would have been truly learned.
I agree, the videos should be allowed to be shown. People need to see this crap in order to get angry enough to do something about it and prevent it from happening to others.
I feel bad for that girl but she should have gone ‘wolverine’ and just attacked everyone within reach. Those bitches deserve a good ass-whooping.
“What is wrong with these people?”
They’re Americans, the stupidest people to have ever existed on this planet, that”s what’s wrong with them.
#46–JPV==tosh, tosh. At most, we can only be in Second Place. Don’t forget the Royal Court of the Sun King, Louis XVIV.
While I’m all for these idiots being tried as adults for their crimes, I think the line of (criminal) liability should (and is, actually) drawn with the parents. (Although, thinking on it, there could be some kind of criminal negligence, as these are minors presumably in the care of whomever owned the house.) Should they face civil liability, certainly, and videos like this guarantee as much restitution as humanly and legally possible because it exposes the truth to the world.
The tape being shown over and over again in the media, however, is the real problem. It’s needless sensationalism. There is no need to show the video to tell the story – especially the scenes with actual beatings.
It is Florida people. Has anyone ever been there?
The whole motivation for this was to video it and put it up on the web. To me, that’s enough reason to ban it. The trouble is, if this beating would’ve occurred anyway, the police wouldn’t have it documented so well.
Maybe that crazy guy in Demolition Man didn’t have such a bad idea, having everyone be ultra polite.
I find this violence much more offensive than Janet Jackson’s nipple or seeing someone’s butt on TV.
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To all those who blame the parents.
These kids were 14 to 17. They imitated life on TV, books, YouTube, and popular culture. This happens every day, usually several times a day in America. Only, two things truly separate this from the most of the others. The victim ended up in the hospital and it was taped.
So why weren’t these girls doing something like playing adult supervised basketball instead? Probably because those blaming the parents are complaining about paying taxes for someone to supervise their kids.
Well, why aren’t the parents at home to watch their kids? Because someone has to work to pay for the Medicare that you anal shut ins receive.
Geeze, even June Cleaver had problems with Beaver getting in trouble. Even though Opie had a great role model in Andy, he occasionally messed up. And if anyone ever noticed, even Bill Cosby’s TV family has two professionals for parents who weren’t home all the time.
#52 “Well, why aren’t the parents at home to watch their kids? Because someone has to work to pay for the Medicare that you anal shut ins receive.”
Spot on.
$52-#53==it appears the perfect solution then would be for the kids to get a job? They would be out of the house and the parents could sit back and relax relying on the largess of their appropriately respectful and honoring offspring.
Are there any jobs a teenager can get that a business owner would rather pay the same amount of money to a Mexican to do, much more, pay less money to?
This is what a society looks like as the death spiral nears the tipping point==though with the momentum in place, we probably can’t avoid a total rip in the space/time continuum.
Totally disgusted.
The only justice here is 20 years behind bars for every one of them and have their families pay restitution.
I doubt it. These future delinquents will just get released back to wild for their next act.
Wow. I dare say that is just sad =/ Usually, in a time like this I say f*** cheerleaders just to get them mad. I mean, they want to go to the beach after dong this? I bet the myspace post wasn’t even 1-1000000 as bas as what these girls did to that one. And FTW was up with the one girl saying “make these 17 seconds good?!” *sigh* This world is going down the pits by the day. -.-+
#54, bobbo,
I disagree.
This is what being exposed to violence all your life does for you. It desensitizes you to the ugly reality that it hurts.
How many TV killings will a kid see before they are 16? Thousands? How many of them emphasize that a bullet hurts? One or two? How many show they leave a lot of blood, guts, and other damage on the ground? Any?
How many fistfights where someone is knocked out will they see? Thousands? How many of them come with a concussion, broken nose / jaw / cheekbone, lost teeth, injured eye, or fractured skull? How about a broken hand?
The best solution would be to rate violence stronger than they rate “sexual content”.
If they can sue YouTube for posting stuff that’s copywrighted, they can sue them for posting stuff like this.
This is the sad fact of life. I see this kind of thing all the time people get pissed off with a particular person and take it out on that person, or find out that someone is cheating on someone else and then all hell breaks loose. People need to stop dramatizing their lives so much. Parents play a huge role in this. I have always been brought up to never use violence. The worrying thing is, for a lot of people, violence is the answer. It used to be mainly guys, but now women are taking that attitude more and more.
It also doesn’t help that society seems to glorify violence, yet when Janet Jackson accidently shows a nipple on TV, shock horror. We as a society need to get our priorities right, and violence has become pretty much accepted. Then a video like this comes out and makes people aware of it again. The sad thing is after the publicity of this dies down, everyone will forget about it and nothing will be changed.
To everyone who says the parents should be responsible, get real. I virtually guarantee all of them have never raised a child to adulthood. Teenagers do things like this. It’s not right. It can’t go unpunished. But, it’s virtually impossible to stop. The only way to stop it would be to regiment and control the kids’ lives so much they wouldn’t be able to develop into balanced adults.
To the idiot who compared dogs to teenagers and said the principle is the same: it’s not. It’s not even close. Teenagers are not dogs, and to compare the situations is ludicrous.