An American online gaming fan committed suicide live on webcam ealier this month.
21 year old “Mitchell S.” supposedly turned on his webcam and swallowed a concoction of pills and anti-freeze after logging onto his favourite site at http://www.metalgearsolid.org
Fellow gamers thought the man was joking, but after several days of failing to show up at their regular gaming sessions, they went to his house to discover that he had died in hospital on January 7.
“Our company has not in any way provoked this suicide. We are
not responsible for material published on the site,” said the owner of http://www.metalgearsolid.org which has been closed down pending an investigation.
While certainly terribly sad and regrettable that the young man died under these circumstances, the fact that a website is forced to bear the responsibility for his actions is perhaps a little unfair.
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