Teachers hurled insults like "bastard," "tard," "damn dumb" and "a hippo in a ballerina suit. Jason McElwain became an overnight celebrity when a Youtube video of him shooting six three-pointers in four minutes went viral. For a or year-old, image is everything. Many students at Haddonfield Middle School said they had seen these videos and found them troubling.
Beginning in March, Google says it will do more with the information it collects about your web habits. In protest of two bills in Congress that would aggressively crack down on illegal Internet content, Wikipedia is offline today. But it's far from the only site speaking out over free speech concerns.
That appears to be having an impact on Capitol Hill. It is hard to watch a videotape posted on YouTube of year-old Justin Baker of Lumberton being beaten by two men, one police have identified as year-old Joseph Abraham. On the tape, Baker is accused of stealing Abraham's video games. A Philadelphia traffic judge who made remarks in a YouTube video suggesting campaign donors would find a "hook-up" in his court has been relieved of his duties.
An argument between rival hockey fans quickly turns physical after the Winter Classic hockey game. Philadelphia police say one of the teens, seen in an online video vandalizing cars, has turned himself in. A young man strides purposefully into the woods as a cameraman asks what he's about to do. While most school systems identify bullies and use suspension as a deterrent, Needham Youth Services is trying to rehabilitate them through counseling. In his first bid for mayor, then-city councilman Michael Nutter swept to victory by better than a 4-to-1 margin over Republican business leader Al Taubenberger in a mild-mannered affair that ended with Taubenberger introducing his opponent as mayor-elect the next day.
Familiar, certainly, and maybe even predictable. But executed like a well-timed kick to the solar plexus, "Warrior" is terrific. A Philadelphia man is taking a stand against so-called "bandit signs" that he says are causing blight on the city. More so, the advertising signs are illegal. The Internet can be a dangerous thing. Like when my boss sees a Japanese video explaining how to cool your hot car, and the boss says, 'Go try that! Singing the National Anthem doesn't usually get Battalion Chief John Grillone in trouble, but when a YouTube video surfaced of Grillone singing it in a firehouse, the Philadelphia Fire Commissioner charged that Grillone's conduct was unbecoming.
