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Megan Smith at 12:14am Tue, 29 Apr 2008 under
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Should YouTube and other online video sites be held more accountable for the increase in fights being posted on their sites? After that horrible incident in Florida a few weeks ago of several girls luring another girl to a house so they could beat her up, videotape the incident and then post it on YouTube, there have been many discussions about whether YouTube bears any responsibility for monitoring what's posted on their site more closely.
Disclaimer: I don't have children. And quite frankly, after the past year of watching various news reports about increasing violence among kids, I am unsure whether I will ever have them. Don't get me wrong - I don't think that all kids are evil - actually, I don't blame the kids. I blame the parents. As a self-absorbed metalhead black militant who loves to partaay, I sometimes wonder if I have the goods to bring a child into this miserable world.
According to a recent AP report, 300,000 people in Kenya were forced to leave their homes, and over 800 people were killed during this past month's post-election violence.