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You look at the kid’s picture, and you can’t help but be saddened by what happened. Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman, didn’t have to jump to his death.

It didn’t have to be that his roommate, Dharun Ravi, would be so apparently repulsed by Clementi’s request to have some privacy in their room, assuming that it was because Clementi was planning an encounter with another male, that Ravi would set up his webcam to spy.

“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay,” Ravi reportedly tweeted.

Oops. To monitor the webcam from his girlfriend’s dorm room meant broadcasting to the entire World Wide Web. Not that Ravi would care, right?

You look at the kid’s picture, and you can’t help but be saddened by what happened. Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman, didn’t have to jump to his death.

It didn’t have to be that his roommate, Dharun Ravi, would be so apparently repulsed by Clementi’s request to have some privacy in their room, assuming that it was because Clementi was planning an encounter with another male, that Ravi would set up his webcam to spy.

“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay,” Ravi reportedly tweeted.

Oops. To monitor the webcam from his girlfriend’s dorm room meant broadcasting to the entire World Wide Web. Not that Ravi would care, right?

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