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Internet: A few stories

Internet: A few stories. Story 1: Blake Robbins. Harriton High School in Philadelphia issued all its students laptops School secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes

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Internet: A few stories

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  1. Internet: A few stories

  2. Story 1: Blake Robbins • Harriton High School in Philadelphia issued all its students laptops • School secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes • School authorities secretly and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56ZkHZPEIk

  4. A lawsuit was filed after 15-year-old high school sophomore Blake Robbins was disciplined at school, for his behaviour in his home • It came out that the school secretly snapped more than 66,000 images of students • Fallout: a US Senate Judiciary subcommittee held hearings on the issues raised by the schools' secret surveillance, introducing draft legislation in the Senate to protect against it in the future.  • The family settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money.

  5. Story 2: Liu Dali (not his real name) • Gold Farming  The practice of building up credits and online value through the monotonous repetition of basic tasks in online games such as World of Warcraft • The trading of virtual currencies in multiplayer games has become so rampant in China that it is increasingly difficult to regulate. In April, the Sichuan provincial government in central China launched a court case against a gamer who stole credits online worth hundreds of thousands of dollars • According to figures from the China Internet Centre, nearly 1.2 billion dollars of make- believe currencies were traded in China in 2008 and the number of gamers who play to earn and trade credits are on the rise

  6. This story broke in late 2009 • As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells. • "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 800 to 1000 dollars a day. We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off." • "If I couldn't complete my work quota, they would punish me physically. They would make me stand with my hands raised in the air and after I returned to my dormitory they would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things," he said. • To this day, Chinese authorities claim these conditions do not exist and that no gold farming takes place in their prisons.

  7. Story 3: Megan Meier • The first recorded case of cyber bullying which lead to death. • The account through which the bullying of Meier took place purportedly belonged to a 16-year-old male named "Josh Evans."  • Lori Drew, the mother of a former friend of Meier, later admitted creating the MySpace account with her daughter and Ashley Grills, Lori Drew's 18-year-old employee. Several people contributed to running the faked account, including Drew. • Witnesses testified that the women intended to use Meier’s e-mails with "Josh" to get information about her and later humiliate her, in retribution for her allegedly spreading gossip about Drew's daughter

  8. Soon after opening an account on MySpace, Meier received a message supposedly from a 16-year-old boy, Josh Evans, but actually sent by Lori Drew using a fabricated account.  • Meier and "Josh" became online friends, but never met in person or spoke. Meier thought he was attractive. Meier began to exchange messages with this person, and was described by family as having had her "spirits lifted". (From the third grade, Megan had been depressed and under the care of a psychiatrist.) •   On October 15, 2006, the tone of the messages changed : •  "I don't know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I've heard that you are not very nice to your friends". • "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you." •  She was found 20 minutes later in her bedroom closet; Megan had hanged herself. Despite attempts to revive her, she was pronounced dead the following day

  9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFsfDLCkfQU

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