Wednesday, September 12, 2012

SIMPLE INTERNET BOUNDARIES!

Good morning all.  My first blog  isn't my intended comment on the UT historically in San Diego...that can wait.  The tragedy in Libya and the attack on the American embassy in Cairo brings another thought.

The American ambassador and three other personnel were killed in a fire set by attackers of the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.  The full story is here:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/09/20129112108737726.html

The Libyans along with the Egyptians were riled up over a youtube video, allegedly produced in America and linked to this Florida pastor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPPtHtUfmQ

Supposedly the video, which I haven't located yet, is an amateurish attack on Islam and degrades their prophet.  Prior to these events it had less than 3000 views.  Rumors in the middle east had it as a Hollywood blockbuster coming out on 9/11...so think about it.  A stupid video put out by irresponsible bigots has reached around the world and resulted in 4 deaths.  The same pastor, Terry Jones, has previously caused riots and deaths in Afghanistan when he threatened public Quran burnings...welcome to the digital "create your own reality" age!

Can any of us write something or create a video here which we present to the world, come what may, and have similar results?  Would we wish to do so?  Do we think before we hit the post button, or in this case the publish link?  Respect of ours and others boundaries, parameters of behavior, shouldn't disappear under the relative anonymity of cyber space...the above is an example of why that is!

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