Tragedy At Rutgers

Last week, some college student thugs decided to have fun with a freshmen and videotaped and also shown live, a sexual encounter of another freshman having sex with a man in the kid's dorm room. The freshman who had sex then committed suicide after the taping was revealed.
From Yahoo News: "The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet's alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.
Cruel gossip and vengeful acts once confined to the schoolyard or the dorm can now make their way around the world instantly via the Internet, along with photos and live video....
Last week, Tyler Clementi, a shy, 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman and gifted violist, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and another classmate allegedly used a webcam to secretly broadcast his dorm-room sexual encounters with another man. The two classmates have been charged with invasion of privacy, with the most serious charges carrying up to five years in prison."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100930/ap_on_re_us/us_student_taped_sex
What the two college thugs did was bullying at it's worst. Maybe they thought it was funny to do the videotaping, but if they thought that, they were sadly mistaken. It also shows a lack of proper upbringing by the parents of these two thugs. Where and when did the parents instill a sense of decency to these two thugs?
I don't look at this as a gay issue, rather I look at it as a bully issue. The college thugs had no right to invade this boy's privacy, regardless if they thought it was funny. They were bullies. Instead beating a kid up as a bully when I was a kid, this is the new age bullying.
But on the other hand, it was nothing to commit suicide over, especially in this day and age. Tyler was a talented violinist and had his whole life ahead of him. Was Tyler embarrassed beyond belief, of course, but is it worth killing yourself over? No.
It's a shame that two thugs decided to videotape some innocent kid and they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for invading Tyler's privacy, but not for murder. Anybody defending the thug students as saying this was a harmless prank gone wrong, are just as stupid and ignorant as the thug students.
This is one of the pitfalls of the Internet. Information can be transmitted instantly and you can do it without thinking about the consequences.
Hopefully people will learn from this tragedy. I hope these two thugs do time and hope their life is ruined. And I hope Tyler's family will be able seek comfort in the near future.