Newswire Misreports Gamer's Suicide

Asriel86 writes "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself. Gaming Horizon has just learned that this is completely untrue. The newswire reporter failed to check the facts, and in turn painted this simple gaming forum into cruel monsters. The forum (hosted at metalgearsolid.org) has been taken offline at the request of Government agencies following these news reports."

Comments

What is the law on this anyway?

[SmallFurryCreature]

If a guy says he is going to kill himself by say jumping of a bridge, when do I turn from a bystander into a criminal?

I know it is usually illegal to assit in a suicide. But what exactly is the law?

Say a slashdot poster, lets call him "Emo_Kiddy", said he was thinking of ending his live. If I do nothing and just ignore him is that a crime? Do I have a duty to report this?

What if I suggest a few handy links with sure fire tips of how to kill yourselve.

Am I allowed to call him a pussy who is to weakwilled to do it anyway? Dare him?

Call me a nasty heartless person but I seen to many teenagers who claim they are going to kill themselves and never do. So this kid actually had the balls to do it (or made a fatal misjudgement on getting attention). Does this force the rest of society to be at their constant beck and call everytime some emokid seeks attention?

To bad for the kid that he saw no other way out but is that really the problem of the rest of the world?

I am going to kill myself, if you have read this you are now obligated to stop me. Don't and slashdot will be shut down. Nice. Could put a whole new twist to trolling for ops in a forum/irc channel. 'give me ops' 'no' 'I am going to kill myself' 'Oh okay, your an op'.

Oh well, time to visit sexylosers and see if there is a new suicide girl comic.