Should There Be Prosecuted For Cyberbullying?

Cyberbullying is one of the easiest ways to bully someone. Most cyber bullies know their victims in person. On the fact sheet “What is Cyberbullying?” it says that 84% of bullies know their victim in real life. A major problem with cyberbullies is that they are posting embarrassing pictures, threatening comments, and rude statements about one that cannot be completely deleted off of the

  Did you know that nearly 1 in 3 teens have admitted to being a victim of cyberbullying? That’s an absurdly large number of teens! But what really is cyberbullying anyway? Well, the Cyberbullying Research Center defines it as “willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices”. Congresswomen Linda Sanchez is currently sponsoring a bill that would make bullying through an electronic means a federal crime and I wholeheartedly support it! Individuals should definitely be prosecuted for statements made on social media.

First of all, teens get cyberbully on the way they look or on the way they are. There is a chart in the article, which estimates on how many teens get cyberbully. For example, a 17 year old girl from pennsylvania picked on an old friend and decided to stop being friends with her because she did something to her that was even worse but she decided to cyber bully her for what she have done. The cyberbully also decided to tell everyone her old friend deepest secrets. One of the worse thing is that it was happening on school

Cyberbully: A word that you may see repeatedly in news and social media, even maybe you or your friends have been a victim of this phenomenon. A survey among 131 undergraduate students (73 female and 57 male) in a US university with an undergraduate population of less than 10000 students shows that fifty-four percent of all respondents reported knowing someone who had been cyberbullied (Walker et al.183).

To begin, any person that has cyberbullied another person should be punished, whether it be in school or legally. The victim being cyber bullied often feels “angry, hurt, embarrassed, or scared” (Source A). The way that these victims feel is also displayed through movies like “Cyberbully” and “13 Reasons Why.”  These movies have a school setting and they reveal how a victim feels at school and in their community when being cyberbullied. If cyberbullying was supposed to be justified by the First Amendment or anything

To start off, people should be prosecuted for cyberbullying online because they might be threatening someone's life. If someone cyberbullies someone else, the bully could be ruining their reputation. Also they could be ruining their future careers that

Every day, millions of people roam the internet. There has been much discussion on whether or not people should be prosecuted for cyber bullying. I believe that they should. Although many think that prosecution affects the first amendment, cyber bullying promotes getting hurt, affects the targets life, and promotes depression.

Cyberbullying, it is any type of bullying that a person is receiving harassing messaging in any electronic form. This can come in form of Facebook posts, email messages or other forms of information technology to deliberately harass threaten or intimidate someone. Many states have passed or are considering laws that would criminalize cyber bullying, however, it raises First Amendment issues. The United States Supreme Court has allowed public school officials in grades K-12 to restrict student speech if it interferes with the school’s educational mission. So public schools could probability punish students for cyber bullying with impunity.

Cyberbullying has been a big problem for teens and adults around the world. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. For most cyberbullying isn’t anything serious it’s just a person just joking around or just speaking their mind but its more than that its feelings being involved families being broken even hearts.

Every year there are more than six-thousand people in America that are being cyberbullied. Cyberbullying is when one person, electronically communicates with another person, but in a harsh way.

Adolescents should be held accountable for Cyberbullying because it will teach them a lesson to not to do it anymore. It is also a fair punishment considering that they did commit a terrible crime,and saying youth is an excuse for such behavior is unacceptable. My view on Cyberbullying is supported by the article

“It’s much harder to flee a cyberbully, as they can ‘attack’ through a variety of electronic means,” states Psychologist Eden Foster. Cyberbullies who do “attack” individuals should be prosecuted. Cyberbullies should be prosecuted because most bullies take it too far. Cyberbullying is a form bullying online with any device. Although, some say that under the first Amendment people have a right of free speech, but some cyberbullies take the online bullying too far. In conclusion, cyberbullies should be prosecuted for what individuals say online.

Allie Young-Cyberbullying, it is the act of harassing someone online by sending or posting mean messages, usually anonymously. That’s the definition, at least according to Dictionary.com. While this definition is true, the meaning extends way beyond that. There are various ways a bully can target their victim. Dr. Martyn Wild said, “Cyberbullying is poised to turn into the biggest online concern, already affecting up to 35% of all children.” Many people do not realize the damage done by cyberbullying because it is not physical. This may also be due to the fact that there are many misrepresentations about cyberbullying.

I personally believe that school leaders should have the authority to punish students who cyberbully others because “cyberbullying is causing students to experience feelings of anger, powerlessness, fear, and sadness.” (Hoff, 2008, p12) in which case it affects their school work and they become fearful of going to school. What is also worse is when the information is deleted and there is no proof of who did it or web pages that allow anonymous transmission of information, in which case certain students could be under suspicion of cyberbullying but without the proof, who is to say it is them.

The National Crime Prevention Council stated "When teens were asked why they think others cyberbully, 81% said that cyberbullies think it is funny. Cyberbullying includes writing hurtful statements on a social media site, putting embarrassing pictures of someone online, digitally editing and distributing pictures of another person, and flaming, insulting, or slandering others in a public area online. Individuals should not be prosecuted for statements made on social media because it's not a crime, it's unnecessary and waste money and time, and it only effect two people, and all the cyberbullies need is to be educated.