International Law

Cewebrities and other internet people

As I was writing my piece for The Courier Mail on cewebrity over the weekend, I couldn't get this song out of head:

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On a related note, Techdirt's Mike Masnick was impressed that the Associated Press wasn't blaming YouTube for the Florida bashing:

Last week, there was plenty of news about a group of eight Florida teenagers who purposely lured another teen into someone's home and then beat her while filming the attack -- which they specifically planned to put on YouTube in an attempt to "get famous." While there have been some attempts to point a finger of blame at YouTube and MySpace, it looks like the press isn't jumping on that bandwagon as quickly as you might expect. Rose M. Welch writes in to point to an Associated Press article that quotes a bunch of people pointing out that YouTube is not to blame and has nothing to do with this attack. Some point out that those sites gave us a record of the attack to make it easier to capture and prosecute those responsible -- while others point out that "the public" is equally as responsible for wanting to watch that kind of attack in the first place. Either way, it's nice to see the AP quickly come out with a clear defense of why YouTube isn't the problem here.

Read it here.

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).