http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/28/michigan.justice.blog/index.html?npt=NP1
Given the amount of media attention that the recent suicide of the Rutgers University student, Tyler Clementi, is receiving, I felt compelled to share with you all the following article I received in my RSS feed for CNN. Let's just get past the fact that the story is about an Assistant Attorney General for University of Michigan who created a blog to the detriment of a gay student assembly president of the student government organization at University of Michigan. The fact that there is such a focus on the 'cyber-bullying', I felt it necessary and even compelled to highlight the radical behavior of this public official towards a student of a university based on that student's sexual orientation. The method of bullying is the internet, namely a blog named after the student "Chris Armstrong Watch" and with such blog posts that have computer altered photos of the student with superimposed gay pride flags bearing the swastika, and other such 'photo shop' reproductions attacking the student's character, calling him a "radical homosexual activist, racists, elitist, and liar"; however, I think that the use of this sort of public attack on a student using widely, and immediately circulated and available media is how the use of technology has negatively affected our society, at even the highest of levels.
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