Originally Posted by
Long Duck Dong
you may wanna edit the post to remove the references to sexual acts, since the people are underage......
recently at a school, there was a shitstorm at one of the schools concerning sexting and the images it involved ( nudity )...... and under NZ law and other countries, it falls under child porn laws cos of the age of the person
the trouble is we are ( as I have said many times ) creating a situation where the teenagers think that their rights apply, and that the freedom of expression also applies....
something that is pushed in NZ as people under the age of 16, are exempt from a lot of criminal prosecution, but the mistakes they make, can affect them in ways they can not imagine.
however, its not just sexting that is the issue... there are clips of bullying and violence that is being filmed and put on you tube as well... school kids, proud of the fact that they beat some person near to death, posting their crimes on the net......and yeah, its being used in criminal investigations in NZ as well as the sexting
it reminds me of the * sexualising teenagers * thread.... and there was a article that I shared with DD the other day, about a youth counsellor seeing record numbers of teenagers screwed up by the sexualising they were encouraged to do, by their peers and parents .....
once again, we have created a world that is fast imploding under the idea of my rights to expression, freedom of choice, the rights of the children... and its not working as well as people want to believe, its back firing.... and any attempt to stop it, will be seen as infringement of rights..... I see it as destruction of lives and reps....... just look at tyler clementi and what happened there.....
btw, current report in NZ, we hold the 2nd highest youth suicide rate in the world ( we have 4.3 mill people ) 1st is the us..... it begs the question, how much more are we going to fail the children, cos rights are more important than a life