Elephant or the horror of guns

This is terrible to see what happens to young students in some schools, they shot at their classmates, professors and also themselves. The common point of those dreadful stories is that media was always involved : diary, mobile phone and recently the Internet. When think of Colombine, we know that their were two and they used mobiles for examle. The thing is that students are often keen on new technologies, they use them very easily and their private life transit exclusively through them.

If we focus now on the Finnish student, we learnt that he posted a video on You Tube that proved he was up to something. Obviously nobody paid attention to it but You Tube moderators removed the video right after the drama.

It raises the problem of liberty on the Internet, indeed, are we supposed to track everyone on the web?

Police is already doing this, they track pedophiles on the Inetrnet and they seem to be quite successful. The thing is that we are totally going against the ideals of the Internet. Nowadays, for questionsof security, secret services such as the CIA or the DST are always surfing on the web in order to catch anyone who can "threat general good".

It's sad but the police managed to catch a lot of people thanks to this, the Internet is no more a free place. It's a question of security, there must be some limits.

I think it's better to act before the "crime" has been comitted even if there are some troubles with it. For example, some people in Finland made jokes about scripting other massacres in schools but they were caught whereas they were not up to do it.

The problem is also that policemen are not bound to patrol on the internet. If I found a serous information about a crime, I woul tell he police because it may save people but it's very compllicated on the web to see who is joking, who is srious and who is preparing an attempt.