Weird news

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070301/1/46zqd.html

Just read a piece of news that kinda shocked me. Read the above link for more info, but here's an excerpt from the news.

An Australian state has banned the popular internet film-sharing website YouTube from school computers in a bid to clamp down on cyber-bullying.

The move follows public outrage after a group of schoolboys filmed themselves sexually abusing and degrading a teenage girl and uploaded the video onto YouTube.

The horrific film showed a group of 12 youths surrounding the 17-year-old girl, who has a mild mental disability, bullying her to perform sex acts, urinating on her and setting her hair alight.

Now, the shocking thing is not the act itself, although that in itself is terribly disgusting, and I'm in no way condoning such acts. But the strange thing is the state's reaction. By banning YouTube to "clamp down" on cyber bullying, that's tantamount to saying that having a place to post their video has actually caused the act of bullying itself! Doesn't ANYONE find that strange? That's like one of the most obvious case of the "slippery slope" fallacy I've ever seen in my life. Geez. Fallacy aside, does anyone really think that not having an avenue to post things will prevent such things from happening again? That it's the best solution for the matter. That's not even taking into consideration that YouTube is ONE out of many many video sites on the net, just that its one of the more popular. Gods, there are tons more sites akin to YouTube around. So, we're gonna put a blanket ban on those sites as well? Why stop there? Ban all file sharing sites... hell, ban the internet because it can give one the avenue to see such sites, or other objectionable material that could give cause to such actions. Why not ban video cameras as well! Certainly without the video cameras, the youths would never think of filming such things.

Perhaps even governments should think before they act.