There can be little doubt that the World Wide Web - aka the internet - has changed life for everyone in just about each and every aspect of daily life.
There is also a "dark" and viral side to the internet. Child porn is but one example of where the internet has been used in an insidious way.
Newsweek now reports in "A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away" on another "use" of the internet which could not be more offensive and disgraceful. The report by Newsweek explains how one family has fought back.
"This is a story about a photo—an image so horrific we can't print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web."
There is also a "dark" and viral side to the internet. Child porn is but one example of where the internet has been used in an insidious way.
Newsweek now reports in "A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away" on another "use" of the internet which could not be more offensive and disgraceful. The report by Newsweek explains how one family has fought back.
"This is a story about a photo—an image so horrific we can't print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web."
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