Ironically in an earlier post I mentioned my disagreement with a quote by Cameron Diaz based on the ground that she's was basically slapping in the face the basic constitutional rights that even allow her to make such a statement. Well in this post I'm going to be a little hypocritical while I do the same thing. I read about this story in the paper yesterday morning where a Finland student went on a shooting spree, killed 8 then himself and previously posted a video on YouTube announcing the attack and calling for others to start a revolution. This video was reported to have been removed.
As a person who frequents and very much enjoys the web phenomenon that is YouTube.com I find this use of the website disturbing. There is something to be said for the power of autonomy and ability to voice your opinion on the internet, but when its used as a means of self empowering people to do bad things it makes you wonder if having access to a massive library of cat videos on the internet is actually worth it.
This is, as I previously stated, hypocritical opinion for someone who is currently maintaining a blog to discuss his own political views. However, it would be nice if, in a perfect world there could exist some sort of fast, automatic and precise means of censorship for this kind of content. In a world where we can send rockets out in random directions and know that it will eventually collide with a body of mass that is currently not there, unfortunately, it still seems that the most complicated thing for us to be able to predict are the people who are numerous to study, but impossible to find trends in.
Granted, the universal access people have to the internet is not what is to blame. It is currently a mostly uncensored and limitless media thats has probably saved countless lives. Furthermore, anyone could certainly see that with or without the invention of stream video, this was a disturbed individual. Yet the internet's potential for destructive self-empowerment is great, and correction for such a thing is both intrusive and difficult. Ultimately I know there is no solution and no one to blame other than perhaps the child's own parents, friends and foremost, himself.
So I end with a video of funny cats video, courtesy of YouTube.
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It took me a while, Bablefish eventually came through.
The translation was pretty poor, but this is what I think I understood: You are affiliated with an internet provider in Brazil that also seems to have a news section and you would like to link to this post. You also asked that I link to that site in my post and I'd be happy to do that. You also asked that I add you to my blog roll and apparently I don't know enough about Blogging or possibly just Blogspot to know what that means.
So if that is the case, yes I would have no problem with you linking to this post. If you explain what a Blogroll is I'll certainly consider doing this as well.
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