The Tyler Clementi/Rutgers suicide story:Hate crime or just an invasion of privacy?

How do you characterize the Tyler Clementi story. He’s the Rutgers student who killed himself last year days after his roommate put video of him romantically engaged with another male on the internet. 

Is it cyber-bullying? An invasion of privacy? Is it a hate crime?

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