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This shits me:

Eight teenagers have been arrested and charged with beating another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to post on YouTube.

And then the Sheriff’s comment:

“They lured her into the home for express purpose of filming the attack and posting it on the internet.”

Do you think though, that maybe, there were some pre-existing issues? Do you think that, given the crime, it would have happened if YouTube was not available to the perpetrators?

You’d think that people just weren’t violent before the internet. That somehow they though “You bewty, now that there’s this YouTube thing, I’ll go beat someone up so I can put it up on the site.”