{"id":166,"date":"2007-09-13T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2007\/09\/man-dies-on-internet-lets-ban-it\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T15:34:56","slug":"man-dies-on-internet-lets-ban-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2007\/09\/man-dies-on-internet-lets-ban-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies On Internet, Let&#039;s Ban It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Kevin Whitrick has been in the news today for having hanged himself in front of a webcam, whilst users of an &#039;insult chatroom&#039; urged him on and tried to discourage him varyingly. The live suicide actually occured back in March but has hit headlines again because <a title=\"BBC NEWS | England | Shropshire | Chatroom warning after web death\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/shropshire\/6993095.stm\">a coroner has decided that such chatrooms should all be banned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coroner was told Mr Whitrick had been using a &#034;friendly insult&#034; forum at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p>He hanged himself while some internet users urging him on and others tried to stop him, coroner Michael Gwynne heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A tragic story, yes, but jumping to the conclusion that the ability to engage in meaningless banter with other human beings directly caused a death seems a little sensational.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Mr Whitrick had long-running problems with depression whilst alive. With the greatest of respect due to the man, I&#039;d recommend banning depression before speech.<\/p>\n<p>Next, people will be electrocuting themselves whilst swearing with their mates and then having friends will be banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Kevin Whitrick has been in the news today for having hanged himself in front of a webcam, whilst users of an &#039;insult chatroom&#039; urged him on and tried to discourage him varyingly. The live suicide actually occured back in March but has hit headlines again because a coroner has decided that such chatrooms should all be banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[9,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}