Technology, open access to information, freedom to say what you want, or challenging long-held social mores, have never - not once in history - sat well with everyone, especially ones that have adjusted well despite the lack of those things. So the Internet is now sprung upon us, a powerful vehicle for exactly those unsettling motivations, and people are freaking out about it as their kids learn about the world, not with their parents, but with YouTube.
YouTube Case File #1: Encouraging Reckless Driving
The experiment is not exactly proof that marijuana has no ill effects on driving, or that driving is actually improved by it. It is a video of just one stoner, after all, who drove more precisely while baked than he did clear-eyed. It's also doubtful that the producers of the 20-something speedster who videoed himself topping speeds of 150 mph on the highway. Boast-posting that video on YouTube ultimately got him a fine of $1,300.
YouTube Case File #2: How To Break Into Somebody's House
Or, depending on how you look at it, "How To Get Into Your Own House If Your Key's Inside On The Table."
A nearly 300-part instructional video series demonstrating how to pick various locks made international news this week. Shocked homeowners and parents shouted in unison, "that looks like my house!"
Locksmiths, according to can't google that information for a number of sources.
YouTube Case File #3: All's Viewable In Love and War
You may not condone donkey love, even if obscured by night-vision, but that doesn't stop it from being posted on YouTube alongside blurry ragtop scroggin' or the felling of Iraqi and American soldiers in the streets of Baghdad.
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