As if the world needed more trouble. An alarming eye-opening article via Wired News discusses the repercussions of the mushrooming video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google, MySpace, etc.
Consider this recent example: In a four-minute video that was said to be meant as a spoof, a young Marine sings about how he fell in love with an Iraqi woman but then gunned down her family after they confronted him with automatic weapons. The video of his performance, posted anonymously on YouTube, sparked an outcry and was removed.
But the Marine has since been cleared by a military review. Now the song is slated to be aired on a satellite radio show and released for commercial downloads.
It’s getting harder to protect children from exposure to inappropriate concepts both online and offline. It makes one wonder if it is fair at all to reproduce, really.
<p>I think Internet can’t be contained (restricted), may be we have to take care of our children then let them choose, I think we can’t protect them by preventing from exposure anymore, they can breathe it like air now.</p>
Reproducing was never fair!!
You Tube? You Tube is great! I’d much rather have somebody shut down sites where you can download beheading videos and such. People have been talking about resricting the internet for over 15 years. I doubt it’s ever going to happen. People have to take responsibilty for waht they give their own children access to. Or not. It’s interesting that video of a song by a Marine who got lured into an trap by an Iraqi girl (if you listen to the words, the girl and her sister were killed by their own family members when they got cuaght in teh crossfire) sparked so much outcry, when video of actual people people being killed in real life in Iraq goes without mention, no?
You hit the nail on the head with your last comment. I have been (and still am) consumed by thoughts of how to protect my own children-to-be from the inappropriateness and outrageousness that have become the norm in the world we live in. How do I make sure they’re normal, functional, responsible, tolerant, well-informed but not too well-informed human beings? I guess all I can do is my best..