Our head-in-the-sand attitude to the internet cannot last

We cannot continue to think of the internet as a separate domain of our social lives. What happens online is part of the real world now, says Derek Chambers.

Following recent media reports of a suicide in the US which was broadcast live on social media, there was understandable shock and dismay across the media here.

When I was asked to contribute to the discussion on my local radio station, my call was put ‘on hold’ while I listened to other ‘experts’ condemn the evils of the internet and the graphic information our young people are being exposed to.