Background Cyber-bullying is a problem which affects youth, worldwide. In a study published in 2011, across 25 European Union member states studied, the average 6% of the youth (9–16 years old) have been bullied and only 3% of them confessed to be a bully. Cyberbullying is an important new kind of violence, with some different…
Offences of bullying, stalking, terrorism, breach of confidentiality, etc. committed in cyberspace are like similar offences in the real world and are punishable. The Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act) was enacted to deal with e-commerce and electronic records, and also to punish e-commerce offences. Offences such as intimidation, insult, annoying, harassment, defamation, etc. in cyber space continued to be punishable only under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) till the 2008 amendment to the IT Act.
Out of the 46 states with anti-bullying laws in place, 36 have provisions that prohibit cyber bullying and 13 have statutes that grant schools the authority to address off-campus behavior that creates a hostile school environment. Copied from Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS ED’s PREVENTION NEWS DIGEST–Vol. 6, No. 55).
The nationwide effort to reduce bullying in U.S. schools can be regarded as part of larger civil and human rights movements that have provided children with many of the rights afforded to adults.
To learn about more key findings and to read the full report, visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/reports.html#safe.
American SPCC Bullying Statistics 160,000 kids per day skips school for fear of being bullied.1 When bystanders intervene, bullying stops within 10 seconds 57% of the time.2 The 3 B’s of Bullying Bullier – 30% of youth admit to bullying Bullied – 1 in 3 students bullied at school Bystander – 70% have witnessed bullying BEEN BULLIED 28% of U.S. students in grades 6–12…
Report abusive behavior Note: this info below comes straight from Twitter. We have only consolidated it for you. Twitter strives to provide an environment where people can feel free to express themselves. If abusive behavior happens, we want to make it easy for people to report it to us. Multiple Tweets can be included in the same…
Report Harassment or Bullying on Instagram Fill out this form to report photos, videos, comments or profiles on Instagram that are bullying or harassing others. Please provide as many details as possible to help us review this issue. If an account is established with the intent of bullying or harassing another person or if a…
Facebook is the largest source of online bullying. So, simple logic dictates they should make it easy to report bullying. Unfortunately, they apparently don’t believe in simple logic because many of their help functions are too deeply buried. It is my contention these links should be easily and readily available with one-click direct links from…
What does Cyberbullying look like?
Cyberbullying comes in many forms, but the most common are:
● receiving mean or hurtful text messages from someone you know or even someone you don’t know
● receiving nasty, threatening or hurtful messages through social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat
● people sending photos and videos of you to others without your permission to try and embarrass or hurt you
● people spreading rumours or lies about you via emails or social networking sites or text messages
● people trying to stop you from communicating with others or excluding you from chat groups
● people stealing your passwords or logging into your accounts and changing the information there
● people setting up fake profiles pretending to be you, or posting messages or status updates from your accounts.
Cyberbullying What is the Problem? According to a recent study, our children are far more likely to be the target of a bully on-line than to be the target of a sexual predator. The results of such bullying can be just as devastating. This research certainly grabbed my attention as I hope it has yours.…
Here is an interesting video we would like to share. Please see and respect the credits given below. Ping Ann OUNG YouTube Video Published on Aug 28, 2016 English – Episode 5: The negative impacts of cyberbullying. This documentary video illustrates about the interviewing between the M&E crews with — Cambodian Singer, Nikki Nikki, Facebook…