Swim Team on Porn Site
Photos of members of an Orange County, CA water polo team have found their way to some gay porn sites, much to the alarm of students, parents, and school officials. A quick Google search will yield dozen of hits to give the details.
The article on the KNBC web site indicates that "police confirmed they are investigating whether a dispatcher, Scott Cornelius, photographed high school players for gay-oriented sites. Cornelius was granted a photo credential to the 2007 Junior World Water Polo Championships at Los Alamitos last summer"
Based on that snippet alone, you can be sure we will be hearing more about this. While those pictures may turn out to be attributed to the dispatcher is irrelevant. Once ANY picture is posted to ANY web site, for all intents and purposes the poster risks losing control of the picture. Anyone can grab it and do with it as they wish. As illustrated by my Ditherhead story and accented by this story, any picture can take on a life of its own with unpredictable results.
The simple fact is that nothing will prevent predators, creeps, and perverts from doing what they do. This sort of tragedy is bound to happen regardless of what we do, but parents and children need to be wary of what they post so as to not become unwitting accomplices to the twisted minds that do this sort of thing.
How we go about accomplishing this is not a simple matter. If I had a magic wand, every school would have a course on cybercivics where students would learn safe, responsible netizenship. But I'm not Harry Potter and even if I could magically conjure up the courses, we would still need knowledgeable teachers who are capable of understanding the online world of the teens. There are precious few of them right now and until today's teens become tomorrow's teachers, the numbers will be woefully insufficient to meet the challenge.
One thing we can do is to get kids talking to kids. That's what WiredSafety's Teenangels are doing. I'll talk more about them in the future. Until then, talk to your kids about incidents like this and have them take a look at my lesson titles Put Your Best Foot Forward.
Labels: cyberbullying, internet safety, swim team
20 Comments:
This post reminds me of an old man who posed as a high school sports booster in my home town. He wore a town letterman jacket and was at almost all of the boys sporting events, and seemed to lean in for pictures with a small camera at odd moments--when athletes seemed to be in awkward positions. In addition to parents being vigilant online, they should also be looking for signs of odd behavior by random individuals at sporting events.
It will be impossible to police every pool deck across America. If one person is allowed with a camera, everyone is allowed. Some uninformed school employee might find themselves on the end of a civil rights lawsuit if they tell someone to leave a public sporting event for doing the same thing (photography) as everyone else.
See you on the pool deck Joan
The dispatcher returned after his year plus PAID leave, DA's office didn't find any criminal violations (DUH), law introduced by a media hungry assembly man has died, photography is been reaffirmed as being LEGAL!
This only remind us to be responsible of our action. There are lots of perverts who just waited to grab the opportunity to satisfy their needs even grabbing your pictures in a social sites. So better be cautious before it happens to everyone.
Parents should remind their children to be cautious in uploading pictures in sites and not only photos but information as well. Now a days posting an information about yours self could be unsafe specially when you include bank account no., telephone, address, and other detailed info.
gouldjm@yahoo.com
did you see that he's back at it? check out secret snapshots dot com. Scott is posting new pics of oc boys. someone call Joan Gould at water polo planet and let the drama begin.
You should see what Scott Stanford is posting on his website called secretsnapshots dot com
Scott's shirtless muscle dot com site is up and running too. I guess Joan Gould didn't get everything she wanted.
Now that Scott is retiring, he'll have plenty of time to attend sporting events.
Scott's Flickr site is very popular. Tell Joan and her clones to check it out. secretsnapshots dot com
This is just horrible. I hope these guys are in prison!
Did Joan Gould move to 6272 Kentstone Dr
Indianapolis, IN 46268-4858 because of the backlash created by her gay phobia rants?
Those Newport Beach water polo boys sure are looking good this season.
Who's seeing this is 2019? Scott was here!
I wonder what Joan Gould is doing these days? The last time I saw her Facebook page, she had a back-side picture of some lady in a bikini. What an outrage!
It's been 13 years since taking pictures at a public sporting event became front page local news. Scott Stanford has since retired and made a few extra bucks thanks to Joan and her cronies.
Google Scott Stanford Photography... There's tons of his pictures scattered across the net. Joan Gould would not be happy about this. Maybe she should contact the OC Register and have them republish her lies.
I miss Joan and Creativeguru. If you’re looking for some of Scott’s pictures, checkout Flickr
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