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As I began to read this article it saddens me to know that someone took his own life for whatever the reasons were. If he got caught doing something that to him he felt was wrong he shouldn’t have been doing it in the first place, and by getting caught just deal with it the consequences the right way not take his own life.  I feel that those responsible should pay for their crime to the fullest extent, because what they did was wrong and illegal. While I read the article “The Net is The Real World” by Jake Simms and Larry Magid I found some good claims that some of the interviewees made. The most important points to me was what Anne Collier said that this story “is not about technology, but inhumanity”, and when Greg Sandoval stated that humans, not machines, are responsible for Clementi’s death. Another point that is good is that Cyber bullies can inflict mental anguish that can hurt worse than physical wounds.

I’m still in shock that an 18 year old boy is gone from this earth because of someone else’s pleasure. I feel that Ravi Dharun should face the maximum penalty for the New Jersey privacy laws that he broke, mainly because Ravi won’t face any time for Clementi being dead even though he is mainly to blame for it. As for Molly Wei I feel shouldn’t get as much time to me because she couldn’t have stopped Ravi from playing the video on his twitter. If you ask me she wasn’t involved in doing none of that but she was just with Ravi, she was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

When Collier and Sandoval stated their claims saying it’s not about technology, but inhumanity and that human, not machines, are responsible for Clementi’s death. I feel that it is totally true nothing in this story made me think about technology I just was focused on how humans treat each other. I wonder why would Ravi do such a thing, he must have really hated his roommate to do such an inhumane thing. Even though technology was used as a way of starting this whole thing it was the human Ravi that push the machine buttons to do so. Ravi to me is the reason Clementi is dead.

The psychology professor John Suler hit it right on point when he talks about Disinhibition, where people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn’t regularly do in the face to face world. And to me it relates to my last point where Cyber bullies can inflict mental anguish that can hurt worse than physical wounds. I felt that Ravi was a one of those people, because he would have never thought that Clementi would take his life. To me Ravi was what John Suler called disinhibition because he wouldn’t have gone with a video camera and tried to record Clementi and then post it on twitter.

Ravi is the top cyber bully of 2010. I feel that Ravi Dharun should get the highest time possible in jail so that people from all over the world know that you shouldn’t be a cyber bully and do such inhumane things thinking you’re going to get away with it.