Cyberbully Getting Up to 10 Years

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Suicide of Tyler Clementi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The guy who outed Tyler Clementi is getting charged with 15 counts and up to 10 years in jail.

Now am I just heartless, or does this seem extremely over the top? I mean it's a dick move to tape and out your friend and is definitely an invasion of privacy, but it's not his fault that the kid jumped off a bridge. Ravi was in college, and 10 years in prison will pretty much fuck up a large portion of his life. If Clementi hadn't killed himself and just reported Ravi, he'd likely get community service and perhaps expelled from his school. Clementi probably could have gotten away with a lawsuit as well and pocketed some cash.

A year in jail or even xxx hours of community service would be enough to show him that what he did was wrong. But it's almost like he's being blamed for killing the kid.

The entire "cyberbully" craze is stupid IMO, bullying has existed since the beginning of time and I've never heard of anybody going to jail for 10 years for picking on a kid.
 


headiez247 said:
he most likely wont get 10 years
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You're probably right, but "up to 10 years" suggests that he'll at least be getting a few years in the clink. I have no knowledge of law but I'd guess it ends up at 2 years and community service or something like that.
 
Privacy is privacy. This isn't excessive in law terms, its only out of the norm because it was actually sentenced.

Everyone is right though. I would be shocked if the kid did a full year.

I find it worse that the kid killed himself because of this ordeal and was given a wiki page so that his name is forever emblazoned with the information that caused that much pain. Poor kid.
 
Thought it was kind of dumb that it made the news in the first place.

I was in high school before we had campus police all over the place--If you got in a fight, you got in a fight, if it was DURING school, you'd get a few d-halls. Now the police get involved, it's assault, people get charged with crimes that 15 years ago the worst you had was a fat lip, and some spare study time.

Sorry, but the world has gone soft.

If all the shit that most of us did as kids was made public, pretty much everyone in the country would have some sort of criminal record.

What a joke
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
A year in jail or even xxx hours of community service would be enough to show him that what he did was wrong. But it's almost like he's being blamed for killing the kid.

The entire "cyberbully" craze is stupid IMO, bullying has existed since the beginning of time and I've never heard of anybody going to jail for 10 years for picking on a kid.
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He turned down a sweetheart plea bargain deal which would have avoided him going to prison and hopefully not being deported since he's not a citizen. He risked going to trial, lost, and now he's completely fucked.

He didn't just attempt to stream Clementi's encounters online, he also tried to coerce witnesses via text message to change their stories while they were talking to police.

He destroyed evidence by deleting his tweets and then posting new fake ones. They were recovered and used as evidence.

He also deleted text messages on his phone.

When the defense brought on character witnesses to attest that he wasn't homophobic, all of the witnesses were middle-aged friends of his dads. None of his friends testified for him. Ravi's defense lawyers did a horrible job.
 
Read this on cnn just now and I don't feel bad for the kid one bit. Incredibly stupid for his attorney to allow him to roll the dice like that knowing how people in this country react to these sorts of things.

Ravi turned down a plea deal offered by Middlesex County prosecutors that would have allowed him to avoid jail time in exchange for undergoing counseling, doing 600 hours of community service and disposing of any information that could identify the man who appeared in the Web video with Clementi.
 
somewhere along the way, people got the idea that nothing bad should ever happen to them, ever...and if it does, somebody must be culpable.

this attitude is evidenced every time someone in America tells someone else that they should sue for damages.

The generations that preceded ours took their lumps, and lived with it, up until the baby boomers.

The boomers are the first generation so possessed of ego, that they actually believe it is beneath them to die.

The next acai berry will be a life-extender of some sort, and it will be sold to the generation that is too good to die.
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
I mean it's a dick move to tape and out your friend and is definitely an invasion of privacy, but it's not his fault that the kid jumped off a bridge. Ravi was in college, and 10 years in prison will pretty much fuck up a large portion of his life. If Clementi hadn't killed himself and just reported Ravi, he'd likely get community service and perhaps expelled from his school. Clementi probably could have gotten away with a lawsuit as well and pocketed some cash.
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He was offered a plea deal that involved absolutely no jail time and he turned it down.

So I would hardly call what is going on as being over the top.
 
I just don't get why he didn't take the plea bargain. I know, maybe at heart he thought he didn't deserve to live with a record because of this, but I think in his case...he made a huge mistake.

I know a bit about immigration law, and the fact that he could possibly be sentenced to a lengthy prison term is not going to help his immigration at all. Taking that plea bargain would have been the smartest thing he could have done. Once these "bullying cases" start to get media attention, they almost always end up with the defendant being found guilty.

I believe he was 18 when this happened. While he was technically a legal adult, I think an 18 year old boy is no different than a 16 year old boy (in terms of maturity). Hoped he learned his lesson though. I guess he was just trying to be funny with the whole webcam thing, but was it worth it?
 
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not guilty. Dumb ass should took the deal.
 
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you hit the nail square on the head i compltely agree, probably the best assessment of the situation i have read +rep
 
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