YouTube banned in Aussie state
p2pnet.net news:- A state in Australia has banned YouTube from school computers following an “outrage’ filmed and posted on the Google-owned site.
A group of schoolboys made a video of themselves, “sexually abusing and degrading a teenage girl and uploaded the video onto YouTube,” says says Agence France-Presse, continuing:
“The horrific film showed a group of 12 youths surrounding the 17-year-old girl, who has a mild mental disability, bullying her to perform sex acts, urinating on her and setting her hair alight.”
The education minister in southern Victoria state, where the attack took place, said its 1,600 public schools would block access to YouTube, adds AFP.
Also See:
Agence France-Presse – Australian state bans YouTube in schools to stop bullying, March 1, 2007
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March 1st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Wow….that was pretty stupid. Commit a crime and then upload the video for all to see. And to a mentally retarded girl too. Those 12 should be in the lockup for a long time.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
This is an isolated incident and is no reason to block YouTube. The video in question was already a violation of YouTube’s TOS, and YouTube obviously didn’t tell them to do the act, let alone post it on their site. Becides, what do the schools hope to do by blocking this site? If the answer is “to keep videos like these from being posted,” then the blocking was pointless as the kids could have just uploaded the video at home. If the answer was “to keep videos like these from being seen,” you again seem to think that the majority of the YouTube audience will hesitate reporting such a video.
I say punish the offenders, using the video as evidence of possible, and leave YouTube alone.
March 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pm
This person attempted to commit suicide by jumping off this bridge ?
Then REMOVE the bridge !!!
Thumbs up, Australia, for this piece of wisdom
March 1st, 2007 at 8:24 pm
You forgot to mention that this incident took place sometime last year, and if theyr’e so keen on protecting the poor innocent kiddies why the heck did they take so long to do this?
Because it’s just an Oz pollie trying to bri…errr ‘lobby’ the Oz voters for a few votes in the election happening later this year.
And they honestly don’t know why Oz voters don’t believe a word that any of them say. I’m serious, they can’t understand it at all.