Let law take its course to keep the Web clean

While the Internet is occasionally touted as a forum for free expression without restriction, 99.9 percent of people accept the reality is somewhat different. For instance, snuff movies, images of pedophilia, and Web videos of teens being beaten up and degraded by their peers are regarded as totally unacceptable.

There is a way of dealing with this issue. Instead of taking the moral high ground and censoring content, let the law do its work. No one in their right mind wants this type of media content on the Web, where it can become a source of copycat violence.

A case in point is the latest in a long series of "Very Yellow, Very Violent" (很黄，很暴力) videos that features an apparently pregnant Guangdong student being hit around by a group of camera phone-wielding teens.