YouTube Did Not Beat Up Victoria Lindsay

I sympathize with the family of Victoria Lindsay, the girl who was brutally beaten by eight classmates on video. Nevertheless, I must call bullshit on the mass media’s inordinate focus on the fact that the video was posted on YouTube. I have yet to see any of these mass media outlets acknowledge that YouTube actually removed the video.
The way the story’s being told in the mass media, it’s as if YouTube made those kids do what they did. News flash: those kids will be tried as adults. Even the law recognizes that they are fully responsible for their actions, not …read more