Tyler Clementi’s Parents React To NYC Court’s Failure To Properly Enact Measure Aimed At Eliminating Cyber Bullying
"In our work against cyberbullying, we are seeing the great pain and permanent emotional harm that cyberbullying causes to children." said Jane and Joseph Clementi, the parents of Tyler Clementi and the chairs of the Tyler Clementi Foundation.
“This is why we strongly support legislation and legal action aimed at eliminating cyber aggression aimed at young people – the most vulnerable in the online space – particularly cyber aggression of a personal or sexual nature.
“We continue to promote free speech and support freedom in online exchanges between adults. However, with regard to the recent case in New York, we favor the approach of the dissenting opinion which would have used the well established severance doctrine to remove portions of the law, while leaving in place measures that are crucial to protecting young people online. Cyber bullying is a serious issue that deserves serious, comprehensive action by our courts and legislatures.”
Suicide of Tyler Clementi
Tyler Clementi (1991 – 2010) was an eighteen-year-old student at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on September 22, 2010. On September 19, his roommate, Dharun Ravi, and a fellow hallmate, Molly Wei, used a webcam on Ravi’s computer and a computer in Wei’s dorm room to view, without Clementi’s knowledge, Clementi kissing another man.
On September 21, the day prior to the suicide, Ravi urged friends and Twitter followers to watch via his webcam a second tryst between Clementi and his friend, though the viewing never occurred.
Source : Wikipedia