home invasion

Against ravi

Reading this was hard, going through the first I formed an opinion; that the internet was a place Americans could use their right to freedom speech, and if you cant take the heat stay out of the kitchen in a so to say manner. But as I kept reading I decided the Ravi was the scum of the earth, what he did was invade another persons privacy, setting up a camera and peeking in on him was not OK. Tyler was under a lot of pressure. He still didn't full embrace being gay and being open about it, he kept his lover a secret, he barely told his parents and he was a bit of pushover who didn't want to cause problems. Ravi's action of sharing Tyler's personal life on the internet was an other step into invading someones personal life.“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay." Although this may have been sent in the most sarcastic of way, it was completely wrong to even talk about some else life with their consent. Ravi alienate Tyler with this manner, he even took the liberty to tell the whole world to tune in to his webcam. What Ravi did was out of pure ignorance and should be punished for it. one thing that ticked me off the most was that Ravi tried to delete the evidence. In an online environment once something is said on there internet it's permanent, and the only way to change it would be to be the ultimate hacker or being able to go back in time.

It is hard to defend some one when there is so much evidence against him, but Tylers suicide could of been caused by many things. He could of had a problem with his lover, he could of been over stressed, mabey he was just tired of life, only Tyler knew his  actual motive. The one thing that truly stuck out in Ravi's defense was his conversations with his friends. I don't think that should of been used against him, those conversation were two people sharing their opinions between them selves. And there was nothing said about purposely ostracizing Tyler for being gay or hatred to the gay community, there was just a lot of what ifs and a lot stereo types. Take for instance the TV show Modern Family, on it there are actors playing gay characters, portraying the gay stereotype to the fullest. they aren't trying to humiliate, they are trying to create acceptance.

My opinion sticks to most cases. The internet isn't always a nice place, website like Reddit, and 4chan clear show that, and sometimes yahoo answers will give you the most absurd answers to the people's lack of common sense and gullibility. But there are still times where you should just not exercise your freedom of speech, if you have to think about a post online before you send it then you probably shouldn't submit it. What Ravi did was terrible and should be punished to the fullest extent, invasion of someones privacy is not okay. When I first started reading this I got through two pages before I got bored and started playing Battlefield3, I was on Ravi's side at first, thinking that the Tyler just couldn't handle the internet or "Pandora's box." I even had a debate with my roommates about some topic about gays that ended abruptly, with "Oh dude nice head shot." But then I continued the reading at 1 am and saw that this Ravi "bro" was out of line. He was being close minded and he obviously  did not think about his actions, even to the sense that he would get in trouble with the school for posting gossip online, and he definitely didn't expect Tyler to kill him self.