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When you subtract the technological component, these things become bad pranks. My fathers generation used to search paper bins for porn and spy on the girls loc
by solistice 14y ago
When you subtract the technological component, these things become bad pranks. My fathers generation used to search paper bins for porn and spy on the girls locker room, and these kids are scaping your laptop for porn and spy on girls through their webcams. Whilst I get that these things are slightly different, using technology as an excuse to blow an action all our of proportion is not a wise thing to do. We honestly should know that because we work with technology. See, a murder is a murder whether it was done with bare hands or with a guided rocket. Theft is theft, whether it is through snatching your wallet or hacking your bank data. So when kids do things they used to do in very similar ways the did in the past, with the only variable changing being technology, it'd be foolish to call them heinous criminals, or psychopaths with no empathy.
At least that's my stand on the issue.
- Nursie 14y agoSorry what? Did you read TFA? Recording audio and video of people in their homes and then sharing it over the net, using it as leverage to get the victims to do things, harassing them in their homes... This in no way equivalent to sneaking a look into the girl's locker rooms or rummaging through a bin for discarded porn! It's harassment, it's invasion of privacy and it's downright evil. That's before we even get into computer hacking. You're right the tools don't matter in the slightest, but you completely miss the scale of the crimes. To throw it back at you - just because these kids are sat behind their computers at home doesn't make it any less heinous, or lessen the effects on the victims.