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Harmless Or Cruel? The Nasty Side To Web Videos Exposed
February 28, 2008

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Is there a nasty side to web videos? This is one of the issues we'll be discussing on Sky.Com News tonight.

Footage has emerged of white students in South Africa apparently making black staff eat food contaminated with urine (see photo above).

There's also been a boom in the number of videos of school pupils brawling and posting the fights on websites such as YouTube.

Both examples have prompted furious debate. One blogger in South Africa posted on a forum that the students filmed degrading the black staff have "stooped beyond the lowest forms of humanity - something that is absolutely unthinkable." But another responded that the video "has been ripped out of all perspective".

The school fights have also divided opinion, with some bloggers saying pupils have always had scraps in the playground. Others have found it distressing that examples of bullying and violence are available for all to see.

What do you think? Are these scandals or storms in teacups? Is there a nasty underbelly to the footage young people post online?

To find out more, join us on on-air and online at 7.30pm.

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Written by skynews, February 28, 2008

Comments

I am a Canadian living in Ireland and I am ashamed of being Canadian!!!

I am appalled and truly disgusted in the fact that the Canadian government are alloying seals to be butchered in the most in humane possible way. This country is meant to be environmentally friendly and supposedly strong and proud of human rights, but this goes beyond words!

I thought small numbers of seals were killed for food but murder of so many goes beyond purpose of survival! This is pure greed! No true Canadian would ever stand for this and something must be done!

The Canadian government is a discrace!!


Sir
Despite the [Nasty] cooking, did the trapdoor cut of the chemical supply from this joker, and did nasa accept his application to be the first guine pig to be smashed into the moon, so as to save [Janet Jackson] from the mud slide?


I understand how you feel, why do the majority hate the Jewish People etc., its just jealousy and ignorance.


If only I can some one to answer this question, what did we do to afrikaners to hate us( black people) so much.maybe then I can understand the reasons behind the racial hatred we experience on a day to day basis.


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