Molly Wei charged in Tyler’s death

We can only hope!

maybe she'll get raped by lesbians in jail :3

usually if someone makes fun of others for being gay it's because their uncomfortable in their own sexuality...

If the "slut" killed herself as a result, yeah, we probably would be having this conversation.

No we wouldnt not liek we are today. The LBGTwhatever agenda has pushed this apon us.

Yes, blame the LGBT agenda for wanting JUSTICE served..... Lol.

And to your attitude, I must say, "Our agenda will overcome yours."

Your not talking except talking trash.

Their actions lead to a suicide. How would you feel if Clementi was your child? A friend? These two should be punished to the full extent of the law. Molly is, and Dharun may be (unsure of his age) legal adults; they should be treated as such. This behavior might be admissable or understandable for adolescents, preteens, or early teenage years. By the time one is in college, this sort of shit should be long behind someone. If he hadn't killed himself, many other terrible things may have happened to him, including beatings and abuse (that would have likely gone not reported), further exposure of the sex tape, etc...

Lock 'em up and throw away the key for a few years to make them really think about the consequences of their actions. Sick bastards.

It's the MTV/reality show-type programming, which is all about being as cruel as possible to your friends and family.

does it matter if its new? bullying has evolved with the ages.... an ugly thing the power shift is.

Great article.

The thing is, bullying may not be any worse, necessarily, but with the addition of technology and the very quick spreading of information via the internet, bullies have all-new (and typically more psychologically damaging) routes to bully others with. Many areas of the country are increasing in tolerance, but that does not mean that bullying and/or discrimination is any better.

I think the larger question is not whether today's bullying is any worse than the past, but what we can do to stop this sort of bullying and degrading attitude -today-, and knock it out once and for all so future generations do not have to suffer these attitudes from others, and minimize occurrences such as this.

I agree, nicely put

Yeah, but would this kid have killed himself if those two had never secretly filmed him having sex and then posted it on the internet? Would "all the stupid people who left the horrible and offensive comments that contributed to the boy's malaise," ever been posted by those people if it were not for the video?

and who are you to judge this kid's suicide? You are not him, and you have no idea the kind of damage the whole incident had on him, or why he decided to kill himself.

"That's giving them way too much credit AND absolving society for still having a bias against gay people that encourages persecution..."

yeah, you can blame society, but that does not mean Dharan and Molly's actions should be excused. they should be given some credit for his death because their actions seem to have led to his death. Would he have killed himself anyway even if the video had never been taken? It is very unlikely that any definitive answer to that question could ever be determined now, but seeing as how there is a correlation between the events and Tyler's suicide, you can argue that Dharan and Molly's actions were a determining factor in Tyler's decision to kill himself.

Dharan and Molly will get charged with more than invasion of privacy, and they will also probably get sued by Tyler's family and lose.

And they are terrible, terrible people

This kind of shit happens because of the fucked up heteronormativity that is pervasive in our world. An unattainable ideology considering that more than 70% of the population is bisexual.

I never excused their actions in filming and posting that video!

What I question is the popular cry for revenge against them.

Suicide is a terrible thing for all involved and it is very difficult and problematic to apportion blame because of it, however simplistic and straightforward you think the situation is, the reality of what goes on inside a person's head is always far more complicated.
-This is what I read in every single time a psychiatrist specialising in the area comments on a suicide.

If anything this situation most highlights society's lingering problems with homophobia and the general culture of persecution homosexual people still face.
Too put too much blame on people like these two you overshadow or even disregard this fact, which is actually far more important!

Eh. You can still highlight that fact and throw these pieces of scum into jail for a few years.

I don't think they are directly responsible for his death, but they are most certainly indirectly responsible. I may not have meant to hit that pedestrian as they were walking in front of me in dark clothes at night, but I sure as hell killed them (hypothetical situation). Should I go to jail for manslaughter? The law thinks so, and most people agree that in a position of power and/or responsibility, one should always look to make sure their actions are not going to severely harm another.

I'd say having a secret (and illegal) camera in someone's room to film them having sex with someone that would put them in an unfavorable light to be a position of power. And I'd also say that at that moment, they were absolutely looking to severely harm someone else, perhaps not physically, but most definitely emotionally, psychologically, and socially. They may not have had the foresight that he would kill himself, but they definitely knew they were attempting their best to totally humiliate this poor kid and wreck his life.

It's manslaughter, more or less, in my eyes.

*^ and that's unfavorable social light, for Tyler Clementi's social group, obviously, not unfavorable in general.

A bale of 25,000 rupees is very heavy--at least fifty kilos (sorry, just read the pot articles). That's why you never want to be charged with the charges in Rutgers.

wtf indeed!!

i think the site is from another country and they translated the money to something they use, but another article is def. needed

Ugh. There are plenty of things to charge them with, but murder is not one of them.

It is very tragic that Clementi killed himself, and I can understand why he did it (I was a gay 18-year-old once too, from Georgia to boot), but he made his own decision, whether or not he was in his right mind when it happened.

These disgustingly cruel children already have enough on their consciousnesses to affect the rest of their lives, hopefully. The charges already leveled against them are sufficient, in my opinion. It's just a nasty situation all around.

You are right, he took his own life, but I don't think we have sufficient charges to level at the intent behind such egregious defamation and degradation of another human being's life and right to privacy. It is not enough to ask what they were thinking, I don't want to ever be exposed to the thought patterns of human beings who would use and abuse another human being this way, and there is no solace in concluding that they were not thinking at all. There has been enough media coverage of the sort of thing they did, that it is impossible to believe they were ignorant of the potential consequences of what they did to this young man. I would love to see them both in prison, for a long, long time.