Double Standards
Why is it wrong for YouTube to host video of boy racers but it’s OK for RTÉ to show extended clips of same in its prime time bulletins? By the logic of the RSA it must have been especially inappropriate to show the footage in the News as Entertainment slot on RTE2 after Podge and Rodge, aimed as it is, at the crucial 18-25 age group most susceptible to the evils of the internet. (I wonder did they clear the copyright to show the clips).
And then there was the Irish Examiner a few weeks back with a front page article about how a girl who had been assaulted had been even further traumatised when she discovered that footage of the assault had appeared on YouTube and had been viewed around a hundred times.
The newspaper article was accompanied by five still images of the video.
This internet thing will be the death of us all.
Mark Waters marked time at 7:19 pm on November 21st, 2006 .
