What ever happened to the Star Wars kid? He’s in law school now.

June 4th, 2010

Remember Star Wars kid? That poor boy who was filmed whirling a pseudo-light saber around in one of the first viral videos? What ever happened to him?

As I discussed in Omniveillance, the kid suffered some serious abuse from his peers in High School.

Now?

His name isĀ Ghyslain Raza. He’s the president of a conservation society and working on his law degree. After he was ridiculed on the Internet, he “dropped out of his Quebec high school, was diagnosed with depression, and checked into a psychiatric ward for children”

No surprise, but he’s in law school–McGill Law School in Montreal. I wonder if he has taken any internet privacy classes.

Read on here. H/T Gizmodo