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YouTube blamed for kid’s bullying

Posted on 10.04.2008 at 12:42 in Tech News by Martin

The parents of a teen who suffered a horrific beating from six other teens are blaming websites like MySpace and YouTube for allowing videos of such attacks to be broadcast on their sites. Six other teens beat up 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay on March 30, recorded it, and threatened to post the video on the two top visited sites. Lindsay has still not fully recovered her hearing and sight a week after the videotaped beating after telling coppers that the girls threatened to post the video of the beating on MySpace and YouTube.

The Plod have found the video and it did show Lindsay being severely beaten, unable to escape. Ironically the video never made it to YouTube, but it was run by the Orlando Sentinel’s Web site as part of its ‘legitimate’ news coverage. YouTube pointed out that once a video was complained about it was taken down. Unfortunately it does not know what is in the video when the user uploads it. That would require mind reading skills. The terms and conditions of the site forbid such content being uploaded. MySpace has a dedicated content review team that examines every video and image before they are posted to ensure that users do not violate the terms of use, the employee said.

Source: Inquirer 

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  1. nayab9
    April 10th, 2008 | 20:58

    ignore my above post #100, i just read an article that explained the whole story

  2. damn
    April 10th, 2008 | 21:23

    that fat pig in pink deserves massive assraping in jail :-(

  3. hellojohn
    April 10th, 2008 | 21:36

    PEOPLE beat people, not websites…And bad parents raise beater people…not websites.

  4. noone
    April 10th, 2008 | 21:39

    the link
    http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/04/08/myspace_beating/index.html
    explains it well, they even left her unconscious…

    people wont forget their faces and names soon, and sooner or later they’ll receive a similar treatment… and unfortunately i don’t feel sorry for them…

  5. TexasTycoon
    April 10th, 2008 | 21:47

    Ok somebody got beat up and taped and suddenly the whole world is going to hell. Are you serious. Yes the parents should have been there and the guys outside the door should have stoped it but come on. Kids fight,Grown people fight, Elderly people fight. Get the hell over it and stop blaming it on video games,internet,technology,eminem. Get a life people can start to say things about a beatings when they remove TNA,WWE,UFC,Pride, etc. from cabel television. Until then get over it, if you don’t like the idea of fighting thats fine. But, dont say that the world is going to hell because of violence. Violence is how we got the world we live in the first place. If you want to bring up the argument of what happend to a civilized society look at it this way you and your parents neithier have the intelligence nor are the a supreme being that can tell what is uncivilized or not appropriate that is what we have laws for.

  6. m0
    April 10th, 2008 | 22:16

    Well we caught up with S. Korea. there were stories like this years ago, with MUD’s, etc. causing beatings, and yes, even killings.

    We as a society are experiencing an effect of the information age, and I believe its about time for a midlife crisis around 2020, but these are nothing but growing pains. People usually will invent/create new ways to interact (be it beatings or whatever) with each other in new and exciting (or disturbing) ways! Yay for humans! Boo to caring what pre/teenage girls are doing/thinking/singing(can anyone say Hannah Montana?)

    I think Bill Hicks said it best when he asked the question “Why is that while having the greatest thinkers in our history at our fingertips, and yet we seem to be infatuated by whats going on in a pre-pubescent American girl’s mind?? What is it that she has to contribute to society? Whats her next hit song..’mommy why am i bleeding’ ?? LOL greatest comedian ever RIP

  7. BloodWatch
    April 10th, 2008 | 22:17

    People beat people like someone said.

    People CHOOSE to attack others, they arnt ‘influenced’ by games or films or stuff like that.

    Me personally have played all the GTAs, ALOT of FPS games, ive played Manhunt ffs! and what do i do with me life? i dont beat people! i bloody work!

    Parents dont discipline their children enough. if i did something wrong when i was younger – i got smacked. and it brought me up the right way. never been in trouble with the police, dont have a criminal record. i wish we could do to people what they do to others in situations like this. i would love to show them how it feels to be on the recieving end of a brutal attack for no reason.

    ~BW

  8. Just an Aussie
    April 10th, 2008 | 22:41

    Reality TV is to blame, everyone wants to be famous.

    You all thought Idol was an innocent endeavor but look what it’s produced.

    Youtube helps pander to those that want to be seen by everyone but there’s so much noise on there now you have to do something different to be noticed. So people resort to videotaping violent acts and let’s face it, it works.

    Now everyone has noticed them and they have their fame.

    So I say let’s ban all Reality TV and bring back reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard.

  9. Neuromancer
    April 10th, 2008 | 22:55

    YouTube is now pulling the videos on this subject.

  10. simply disgusted
    April 10th, 2008 | 23:02

    Has anyone actually tried calling any of the numbers listed above?

  11. Vondor
    April 10th, 2008 | 23:13

    god i finally figured out the riddle. 3+6 = 9

    i hope

  12. Irony
    April 10th, 2008 | 23:44

    HAHA.. the news media made it worse by blasting this all over TV. It would have been much less embarrassing if it had just been on youtube.

  13. memnoch
    April 11th, 2008 | 00:58

    just saw the movie with audio. from what i understood the girl that gave the beating got cheated on by her botfriend or something with the girl that got beaten. don’t missunderstand. i totally dissaprove of the beating. i think psychological damage is worse that phisical. didn’t thing she wou;d get so banged up from those punches, didn’t seem so hard. still, no hearing or seeing is ***** up.

  14. memnoch
    April 11th, 2008 | 00:59

    sry ab. the post. while i was writing it, 30 more appeared & explained it all :) )

  15. memnoch
    April 11th, 2008 | 01:00

    actually no, i just didn’t see the second page. i’ll stop here.

  16. rayc
    April 11th, 2008 | 01:10

    for the ones who think this was a one one one fight, try imaging been in a place where 8+ people are holding you against your will, and everything you head for the door they beat the crap out of you.

  17. noob
    April 11th, 2008 | 01:16

    Fcking scum all i say!

  18. PIČKINdim
    April 11th, 2008 | 01:22

    FUK!N STUP!D B!TCHES

  19. mixeeplikstick
    April 11th, 2008 | 01:47

    youtube has nothing to do with this for sure, maybe inorder for this kids to get more hit rate from the viewers of youtube fueled the idea of severely beating someone inorder to become popular. this kids might have planned this act a long time ago, the victim might also have provoked the suspects which had lead them to beat her up. or maybe she was unknowingly lured to the lions den all along and got assualted for no reason. or probobly the whole act was some sort of a gang hazing.

    but after watching the video, its for sure that the victim did something very wrong to provoke the other girls. the video was both disturbing and funny. its disturbing because the victim was very helpless, she got beaten up and got unconscious and when she got her senses back they beat her up on the couch and then got beaten up some more, i can see that she’s very scared and she’s isolated too in a house where she’s trapped, i find it funny because one of the girls is very much concerned not to hurt or damage the furnitures than the girl who’s getting mobbed.

    the girls are also profoundly stupid, they even provided proof and evidence for the cops when they started to film the whole thing… they are definitely going to regret this for the rest of their lives, they have mug shoots everywhere and their actions will stay attached to their names in search engines like Google and Yahoo for decades, and behold their masterpiece that will get them banned from certain universities and job employments as well….

  20. silverfox
    April 11th, 2008 | 02:29

    @11 your post m8 is spot on..

    The day will come when we will go & sort this out..Not the law..
    Our country (uk) is full of Do Gooders…

  21. Pirate
    April 11th, 2008 | 05:31

    what kind of country did the poor girl live in? people are only interested in debating the moralities of web site content, and NOT A SINGLE WORD was mentioned about bringing those 6 monsters to justice. Teen Monsters grow up to be Adult Monsters, and dare I say they’re by no means “abnormal” in their country. Yes, her country shouts Freedom to the world and uses that slogan to commit all kinds of atrocities overseas, but the average citizens don’t even have the right to be free from demonic violence in their own country

  22. ross the snitch
    April 11th, 2008 | 07:22

    if six girls get their hands on a video camera, the only thing I want to see is some serious rug munching, put that on youtube suckers, for now I’ll keep watching chocolate rain

  23. Tiredtrying
    April 11th, 2008 | 09:42

    I have watched this video a few times now to try and hear where people are claiming that the girl did something sooo wrong to ALL these girls as to warrent what i see them doing to her on the tape… all i hear is some sh1t about “myspace”?

  24. XKCD
    April 11th, 2008 | 11:15

    How come those two lists of phone numbers list completely different numbers? One of them might be somebody setting other people up for pranks…

  25. bizzzo
    April 11th, 2008 | 13:59

    No offense but every day I discover that US is more and more unsafe. I wonder how people can even live there? Quite often I’m glad not to live anywhere near US.
    —
    As I said, this is not an offense, or a bad-mouthing US, only an observation… If I’m wrong please correct me. :-)

  26. davy
    April 11th, 2008 | 14:18

    it is a mad world….

  27. DeerDance
    April 11th, 2008 | 17:32

    to Redgirl@55

    calm down “momy on march”
    the kid got beaten big whoooo, she is not cripled nor dead. And why she got beaten? so the other bit*esh can post video on web….
    If this is not childish behavior then what is?

    I would realy rather see in jail people who attack and beat people for racial reasons then this…. its just stupid girls and stupid media buble…

    you would realy like to see thouse girls in jail for lets say 5 years? what would become of them?

    and one thing i never get, is USA idiotics “trialled as adults”!!!!
    WTF!!! it is reason why there are non adults and adults, how can someone say that here and now he is not 16 but older so we all can feel good and enemy of the freedom is in jail for several years… ye they had it coming…

    and i wanna see you all explain ruined life when someone spent some time in jail and it break or totaly change personality….

    wtf people just watch “shawshank redemption”

  28. M|ke
    April 12th, 2008 | 06:05

    I bet the only reason they are blaming youtube is because they see an opportunity to sue youtube for some big money :)

    As for those girls and the 2 guys, they deserve a beating themselves. Give the victim and her parents a baseball bat each and let them be the judge, jury and executioners

  29. kloudykat
    April 12th, 2008 | 06:31

    now now #96, there ain’t nuffin’ wrong wit crack, and we all know it…..something THIS stupid had to happen straight sober

  30. daimos
    April 12th, 2008 | 08:49

    what the h*ll was that? “you’re crying like a little girl!” – of course she is you sick f*ck, there are 6 of you who are ganging up on her! it’s so easy to act tough when you’ve got at least 2 “accomplices” with you, no? and that other b*tch recording the video…everytime one of them beats that girl, she says, “oh yeah…” like she was having an orgasm. what is wrong with these kids? i really hope they get jail time for this. they don’t only deserve to get imprisoned, they deserve to die!!! someone kill them, PLEASE!

  31. daimos
    April 12th, 2008 | 09:03

    “he cheated on you with me, and then when you ran away from school…”

    “fight back!! fight back!!” (”i don’t want to!”) “why?!” (me: “duh! coz there are six of you? if you want a fair fight, let the other 5 out and let’s see who’s more bad@ss you crazy b*tch!”)

  32. Zaki
    April 12th, 2008 | 19:04

    I bet they thought they wer cool wen they did thyat.
    Cowardly too. Thank God they dint deal any permanent damage to the poor girl. She has the last laugh now.

  33. sober
    April 13th, 2008 | 05:58

    If I have any children, they’re learning some sort of self-defense, and they will learn to keep it to themselves through self-control. And if they’re attacked, then the attacker(s) will get quite a surprise.

  34. tomtom
    April 15th, 2008 | 17:58

    video here:
    http://www.wrzuta.pl/film/iq3G7nwOrz

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