Blessing and Curse of the Internet

I had just texted a fellow student "Found a great tutorial on binary arithmetic, why can't our university lectures be simple and effective like this?!"

Being a part-time Computer Science student, we are suffering from a severe case of uninspired 'frontal unterricht' at our German university. Therefore I am often on the look-out for more informative and interactive bits and bytes, such as video tutorials. I had stumbled upon a good lecturer called Carl Herald, who managed to explain why 1 plus 1 = 0 in less than one minute, and then continued to explain the remaining binary algebraic puzzle in a clear and friendly voice on his YouTube Channel. Many people thanked him in the comments. "gr8 vid i love it!" "Thanks! Wasn't taught the "borrow" method in class." "Thank you, well explained!" For me it was renewed evidence of how technology can support learning.

Then the latest comment caught my eye; "All of you guys know that this guy raped his 9 year old son? check it out for urselfs". Below it he had posted a link to these reddit articles. I wanted to know what was going on and scanned some of the other comments, which were mixed. It seemed many people were in disbelief, others agreed that it was the same guy. Only a few clicks produced articles such as these, which confirmed that this friendly sounding programmer, who had over 200.000 views on his You Tube channel, was indeed the sick person who had abused his child and shared the video evidence of this horrific crime with an online pedophile porn network. He faced many charges and went to prison. I only had to check the latest article to find out that he had taken his life, not too long ago.

The Internet made it possible for him to share his videos, both the programming tutorials and the child porn; the blessing and curse of the Internet in one sad sick story.

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