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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?
#60–Disbelief==you shouldn’t anticipate readers reaction to your post, no matter how accurate it may be.
Of course Parents should be held liable for their minor kiddies actions. Does that mean that bad kiddies won’t act out?==No. Does that mean they should go to jail?==No. Silly Rabbit.
You have some very incorrect equations floating around in that brain of yours. Straighten them out and post again what your legitimate thoughts might be????
sorry bobbo, I disagree. I’ve raised 2 children to adulthood. Adolescents have to be held accoutable for their own actions. Now, if it can be shown that the parents are demonstrably negligent in their parenting duties (which does not appear to be the case here), then they may have some responsibility.
When you say ‘minor kiddies’ it sounds like you’re talking about 5-year-olds. I would hardly call a 17-year-old a minor kiddie. They are adolescents, something quite different from kiddies.
If a 16-year-old kills someone, I would not agree that the parents are automatically responsible and should go to jail. The adolescent committed the crime; the adolescent has to pay for it. The parents will be paying in their own way in any case. This assumes, of course, that the parent(s) did not encourage or otherwise provoke the teenager to kill.
#62–Disbelief==you are waffling around so much, its hard to tell what you think. What you post is gibberish.
I said the law holds parents responsible for their minor kiddies. You say “they may have some responsibility.” Of course, the parents have to be negligent for liability to apply ((or is there strict liability for economic damages?? I could make a case for that too, but will hold at common negligence. So, as far as I can see, for some perverted reason, you want to say you disagree with me, and you do that by agreeing with me. What do you really think???
I would call a 17 year old a minor kiddie. Their brains are not fully formed. But “kiddie” may indeed miss your funny bone. Strike it and go with minor.
I said the parents were not criminally liable. Again, perverted reading on your part. Just too caught up in wanting to think you are right and everyone else is wrong, when in fact, everyone is agreeing.
So, with this measure of conflicting self-aggrandizement going on, I don’t really know what you think.
Not to torture anyone, but what evidence do you rely on that the parents don’t appear to be civilly liable for the actions herein?? Are you thinking no evidence reported is evidence of no responsibility? The general state of affairs is that parents are responsible, so I’m just wondering.
Just to go off on a tangent. She still seems to be able to hear and see at the end of that video. So either there is a lot more to that vid, or they are way over blowing the incident in order to make some money on the law suit.
Yea, i’d have to say that what teenagers do doesn’t have much to do with their parents, if you could convict someones parents instead of them, what would stop them? in some extreme cases, yes the parent is somewhat at fault, but even then, a person makes their own choice. And im no parent, teen myself, i’d have to say my parents dont really get to choose what i do, or have much of an effect, i do what i do because i believe it is whats right.
There is something from these kinda fights that i cannot stand for. It is the fact that you cannot treat another human decently, and give them the respect that you would anybody else. In my mind, that takes away my respect and views on them. These girls and the boys, are not even human to me, if i were to seen them beaten like they had the girl in the video, i could care less, they dont deserve any respect because they dont understand what it is. I dont think there really even needs to be a trial, they should just go rot in jail, or better, hell.
Secondly, Youtube and Myspace have nothing to do with this, there just scapegoats on what the real issue is.
I dont see anything on Youtube or Myspace promoting this violence, and if you haven’t realized it, People upload the videos onto youtube and myspace, the websites just store data and hold it openly for whoever wants to view it, they dont post the videos themselves, and the only way for them to delete it is for other viewers to report it, or they happen to stumble upon it from filtering, in which case there are numerous videos being uploaded by the second.
Youtube and Myspace aren’t the source of the problem at all. mypace is meant to be a ‘social network’ it does not say ‘use this site to destroy your friends’. Just because some people dont understand what these sites are meant for doesn’t mean nobody else should be able to use it. Same with youtube, millions of people visit the site daily, just because a few hundred people dont know what the purpose of it is meant for, doesn’t mean the other millions shouldn’t be able to use it. its not really worth it if you look at it, the ratio of a bad video to a good video is like a mil to one.
And lastly, i’d like to laugh at those girls, beating a girl for what they said on myspace, where is the logic in that. ‘im not a bad person, and to prove it, i’ll beat the living shit outa someone, that proves im a goood person!’ yea, that is the most pathetic logic i’ve ever seen in my life. And the mother who claimed that their daughter is innocent because the 16 year old provoked her. Insulting someone on Myspace is provoking? you basically gave bush the right to kill anybody he wanted if that were true.
Last note, the funny thing is, they thought people wouldn’t like them because of the myspace post, thats at most a few hundred people. Now they get the whole nation, and possibly more, not just disliking them, but hating. Yes, their logic is great.
Last note, the funny thing is, they thought people wouldn’t like them because of the myspace post, thats at most a few hundred people. Now they get the whole nation, and possibly more, not just disliking them, but hating. Yes, their logic is great.
(the race for #69 continues!)
#67–Yod==here’s your set up, GO FOR IT==BUT pretend you are not posting on MySpace.
#69 – I WIN
#70 – Oh wait… I misread that…
#70–OFTLO==what happened? I thought I was at 68? You know, the few times I try to do someone a solid, and I screw it up.
Hey Yod–keep posting and OFTLO and I will do our best to get you that coveted position.
I hear 83 is fun too.
Just a sidenote to those who blame Youtube and Myspace for this, maybe we should take away guns too. Also, cars should be taken away, the cause more damage than myspace and youtube, you might also want to include planes, cigarettes, alchohal, and factories. If everything were to be looked at from the wrongs, these things would be the first to go. The problems of Myspace and Youtube are not from the website or company, it is the people using it, take it away or not, the things will still happen. And the incidents on myspace and youtube are nowhere nearly as terrible as carbombings, killings, cancer, alchohal abuse, and lastly global warming. You cant blame Myspace or Youtube at all, the only claim you can make is taht it is where it started, but the truth is, Myspace is not what posted up the words, it was the person who wrote them and it was obviously meant for the other person, so either way the person would have recieved it, whether it be a note or a posting on myspace. And youtube has nothing to do with the video, it was a poblicity stunt, and youtube was just the victim, even if youtube were to be taken away, they would have mostlikely still gone around town showing it to friends, or bragging. Is it not obvious enough that the fight was about much more than just a video on youtube?
ok, bad video..but, let me ask you this everyone…
How would you feel if it was all men on one bloke? I bet you’d all laugh your tit’s off.
It’s annoys me the way people see things very badly when women are involved, yet it’s different when it’s a man.
A bit like, how a woman can get away with beating the shit out of her boyfriend or husband, but if the husband or boyfriend tries to defend himself from the kicks and punches he can then be tried for assault.
This video ain’t fucked up at all, society on the other hand IS very fucked up.
To me, it is the laws that are fucked up, one law for women and something VERY different for men. man gets raped, he gets laughed at…..woman gets raped she gets a bunch of flowers and a damn good hug and get to she her rapist sent to jail <—- now thats fucked up!
Anyway, I’m going off topic here, send all abusive email and comments to ironroses at hotmail dot com
ok, bad video..but, let me ask you this everyone…
How would you feel if it was all men on one bloke? I bet you’d all laugh your tit’s off.
It’s annoys me the way people see things very badly when women are involved, yet it’s different when it’s a man.
A bit like, how a woman can get away with beating the shit out of her boyfriend or husband, but if the husband or boyfriend tries to defend himself from the kicks and punches he can then be tried for assault.
This video ain’t fucked up at all, society on the other hand IS very fucked up.
To me, it is the laws that are fucked up, one law for women and something VERY different for men. man gets raped, he gets laughed at…..woman gets raped she gets a bunch of flowers and a damn good hug and get to she her rapist sent to jail <—- now thats fucked up!
Anyway, I’m going off topic here, send all abusive email and comments to ironroses at gmail dot com