Dahrun Ravi: Let Him Go

Hurrah for racist scapegoating about a load of crap that Ravi never did.
He never recorded it, he never broadcasted it.
But what do facts matter when vengeance calls?
There's as much evidence of Tyler Clemanti's racism as there is of Ravi's homophobia.
So they're both stupid fratboy jerks - is that a crime now?
But what the hey - let's make ourselves feel better by ruining another young man's life - yay!

Facebook: Poking People Since February 2004

A study conducted in Washinton DC has "discovered" that Facebook targets ads according to users' stated sexual preferences.
I know - whoda thunk it!

EDIT: The Daily Mail went big on this on Saturday 22nd. 'Facebook 'accidentally outing gay users' to outside firms through targeted ads'.
But like their coverage of Tyler Clementi's suicide (after film of him getting intimate with another man was put on the internet), the angle was more about the Mail's technophobia...

Teenage Gay Suicides: A "Sexy" Story?

Almost all of the UK papers gave over considerable space yesterday or today to the suicide of 18 year-old US student, Tyler Clementi - apparently after being outed by a flatmate secretly filming him having sex with a man and then putting the film on the internet.
The Daily Mail: 'He was spying on me': Student who killed himself after secret gay sex film made desperate cry for help on day of his death.'
The Independent: 'Student jumps to his death after roommate posts sex tape online'.
The Guardian: 'US student Tyler Clementi jumps to his death over sex video.'
The Daily Telegraph: 'Student jumps to death after being filmed having sex with man.'
The Times: 'Student Dead After Friends Broadcast Sex Video.'
The Sun: ''Taped Sex' Teen Jumps To Death'.
Daily Star: 'Degeneres 'Devastated' Over Suicide Teenager.'
It was the fourth reported sucide of an American teenager in September because of homophobic bullying.
There was also Billy Lucas, 15, Seth Walsh, 13, and Asher Brown, 13.
None of these other three boys' suicides were reported in the British press, though their youth arguably makes them all the more tragic stories.
Fagburn wonders if journalists being able to put something about a "secret gay sex tape" in a headline makes a teenage suicide a sexier story?

EDIT: A Fifth gay American teenager, Raymond Chase, 19, took his own life on September 29th.

Billy Lucas: 1995-2010

Billy Lucas, 15, took his own life because of homphobic bullying.
"Greensburg High School principal Phil Chappel said that officials were unaware of bullying against Lucas, but friends said the abuse was constant, and often directed to what the aggressors presumed about his sexual orientation."
This is happening too fucking often.

EDIT: Tragically I typed too soon, 19 year-old gay student Tyler Clementi, has also killed himself.