Vivvo CMS 4.1 PRI: Public Radio International http://www.pri.org/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. PRI: Public Radio International http://www.pri.org/files.php?file=rss_682409203.gif http://www.pri.org/ Advocates fear implications Dharun Ravi case http://www.pri.org/stories/politics-society/tt-advocates-fear-punishment-for-dharun-ravi-will-be-too-severe-9958.html Politics and Society Tue, 22 May 2012 08:00:00 -0500 Dharun Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Monday after being convicted earlier this year of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy for spying on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, who was kissing another man in their Rutger dormitory. Clementi later committed suicide. Anthony Cloud Politics and Society Tue, 22 May 2012 10:35:29 -0500 This is not a hate crime, it's an indifference crime. It is hard to say which is worse. There are no statutes covering "indifference crimes", and it's hard to see how there can be, but the kind of monstrous callousness that has arisen in the social-media age is a social problem that needs to be viewed with the same seriousness as hate and/or bias crimes. PRI: Public Radio International