Cyber Bullying State Laws and Policies
October 8th, 2008 by admin
Recently, a number of states have passed strong cyber bullying laws that are designed to protect children from being harassed, threatened and humiliated online. These laws represent a crucial step towards National anti-cyber bullying laws which will protect children of all ages in every corner of the country.
Here is a state-by-state look at some of these laws:
Arkansas
In 2007, the Arkansas legislation passed a law allowing school officials to take action against cyber bullies even if the bullying did not originate or take place on school property. The law gave school administrators much more freedom to punish those individuals who sought to harass their fellow students.
Idaho
2006 saw Idaho lawmakers pass a law that allowed school officials to suspend students if they bullied or harassed other students using a telephone or computer.
Iowa
Iowa has passed several laws that force schools to create anti-cyber bullying policies which cover bullying “in schools, on school property or at any school function or school-sponsored activity.”
New Jersey
The Garden State of New Jersey has always maintained tough laws about bullying, but it wasn’t until 2007 that the laws were amended to include bullying via “electronic communication.” These laws give additional power to the school system to enforce bullying-related punishment for actions that may not take place while on school grounds.
Oregon
The progressive state of Oregon really delves into the details of cyber bullying. The laws passed in recent years in Oregon expand the boundaries of what constitutes cyber bullying to include those actions which “substantially interfere” with the education of the young person.
Missouri
The suicide of a 13-year old girl Megan Meier who was the victim of an internet hoax greatly raised the awareness of cyber bullying and its consequences in the state of Missouri. Governor Matt Blunt went so far as to create a task force whose sole purpose was to study and create laws regarding cyber bullying. As a result the Internet Harassment Task Force now stands as a shining example for other states around the country. Missouri has also toughened their laws on the matter, upgrading cyber-harassment from a misdemeanor to a Class D felony.
New York
New York created a system to investigate claims of cyber bullying that would help police and school officials better ascertain the circumstances of each occurrence and prosecute or punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law.
Rhode Island
The governor of Rhode Island is currently trying to pass a bill that would force repeat cyber bullying offenders to appear in family court, where they would be charged as delinquents under the terms of the state’s laws for young offenders.
Vermont
Vermont has added a $500 fine for cyber bullying offenses to their already stringent laws on the matter. There is currently a bill being discussed that would increase the reach of the school’s powers regarding cyber bullying when the action puts the individual’s ability to learn (or health and safety) at risk.
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November 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
my 15 year old daughter has been a victim of this by a gal at her school….i went to the principal and also sent three emails to facebook where the main bullying is happening…i have yet to get a response…..my daughters account on there is no longer but the other girl keeps posting very bad things about my daughter it has been a nightmare……of course this is all happening in wisconsin
November 18th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
there is someone in my school who is a target of cyber bullying which is awful
January 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
What about laws to protect adults from cyberbullying. I am in NY State on Long Island, and have been trheatened with physical harm as well as pulicly degraded and humiliated in public fourms. They have even threatened to send people to my house. I am afraid to leave at time or meet with people who they might know as well, because I know of previous instances where from a license plate all of another persons personal information was obtained and pulicly posted on a nationally known and popular website
January 29th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I have been getting bullied for many years and even more since my two kids are half black and half white…..ppl have left very rude comments about my children and about me whn i was with a black man. this needs to stop and the police are no help and i leave in nebraska….just recently my buddy who is handicap gets bullied and it pisses me off so bad. I hate it when the person/people do this. The law needs to change to protect everybody in everystate and out of the country even…not just a handful of states. THIS BULLYNG NEEDS TO QUIT NOW!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I am very upset and feel completely vulnerable to a nameless, faceless cyber bully. Someone, who I cannot figure out, has erected a website that slanders me and people in my family in a very painful, horrible way. This person or persons also stole pictures of me from my website and posted mean, slanderous comments about my weight and daily habits that are untrue. The whole website is cruel, horrendous, and what I would deem cyber bullying. Where do I go, and what do I do to have this website removed from the internet? Does anyone know how I can protect myself and my family against this?
Thank you so much
March 7th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
This girl online has been cyber bullying me for months lately. It has gotten worst. She started bringing my girl friend into the fight and one of my families murdered friends into it. We live in different states. I do not know what state she lives in which is really annoying. I have no clue what to do because I am only a young teenager. I’m afraid if I do not do something soon, it will only get much much worst. She has threatend to hurt me, because she is older I guess. I’m sure she is going to start with death threats soon.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Erm… I feel really bad, and upset, and very concerned. I am 14 years old and I live in England. I have been Cyberbullying someone at my school and I feel really really bad about it. I didn’t exactly know what Cyberbulling was… Until now. I am very very worried and scared about what will happen to me. This victim of which I have cyberbullyed is called Louise. She is the same age as me and is in my lessons at school. She has said to many of her friends that I am an unwealthy, childish, pathetic and petty. I have also been accused by her friends that she hangs around with at breaktimes and lunchtimes, that I am a low-lifed thief and a lesbian. I know now that what I have done is wrong and I have also been told by numerous amounts of people she knows, that I am in big trouble with the Police. Can somebody please aid me in this situation. I am not a bad person I just need some help that’s all.
Can somebody please tell me what to do, what will happen if Louise has told the Police, and what the Police will then do to me?
Thankyou so much for your time and for reading this.
-Rachel. x
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
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July 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
My neice who shares custody of her two children with her ex gets constant texts and voicemails of personal attacks, negativity, hurtful comments, and not only are they doing them toward her….they do so in front of the kids……HATE IN A FORM I PERSONALLY HAVE NOT SEEN.
Don’t they understand that these comments go deeper than the phone lines and the burden it puts on the kids is long lasting.
ACTION: Instructed by police to call Phone Co. to block them from her phone. Easy..but if that is how you communicate with children, then makes BLOCKING difficult. However, like my neice by a cell phone for her to call kids and no texting or sending calls… unfortunately, hate continues….unless courts clarify the phone use…then..how conveniently, the phone is lost, not charged, or near them to receive calls…IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS MUST DOCUMENT IN COURT PAPERS!!!!!!!!
July 20th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
education/awareness is key ~ hope any passed law(s) are not easily exploited ~
August 9th, 2009 at 1:29 am
I am a teen mother. I am honest about my son to my friends and family on my websites “myspace, facebook, etc.” I also talk on yahoo messanger… Well not recently, the threats and horrible comments are reseave are gut renching. They call me a whore, say my son is a discrase! They have even gone as far as fallowing me “in large groups” to every chat room i go to… Last time i got on i was booted and a virus was sent to my computer… Im not to worried about this for myself but i can only imagine how younger children “who care so much of what others think” are going through… This is horrible and for those who say “just ignore them.” Your wrong! Trust me its not that easy!
This has to stop!
August 14th, 2009 at 10:12 am
I am a member of the IMDB.com website and I have been stalked and hararssed by cyber bullys. I have written to the Admins countless times and informed them of specific people that are harrassing me bu they refuse to do anything. I even suggested to them to add a blockage feature so users like me and everyone else can block specific trolls from stalking you around but they’ve ignored that suggestion. In the rules for sigining up it says if you’re a troll your account gets deleted but when I’bve pointed out several cyber bullys they just tell me that because of heavy traffic flow of posts they can’t do anything. Even when I point out specific ones and link those cyber bullys’ post history for them!
August 14th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
im doing a project on this thanks for the information
August 25th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I monitor my teenage daughters account and was horrified to come across a agressive and abusive email sent to my daughter from a girl she had never met The email was sent because someone suggested she send this to my daughter. The facebook message was full of profanity and references which attacked my daughters physical characteristics. I contacted facebook with no response and I suggest parents get more involved and contact the schools these young people are attending with the hope they can get counseling on their unacceptable inappropriate behavior. Most schools have a code of conduct that students must abide by and this should help them to stop and think before they destroy any child’s life.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
This happen to me on myspace with a game called mobsters the person would leave comments I would block new id new comments over and over. He also made a call from a public phone and did make a threat. My company was tied into the myspace now it is not and that is how he got my phone number. I had noticed that anyone who stood up for me with him has also been bullied. I did a report with myspace and mobster and nothing has happen. This could happen to a child and they need to do something about it. When I blocked him with his id and he got a new one he got real mad. I have made my account private and don’t go into mobsters game now except to see threats he has made to other people and this is wrong, myspace and mobsters needs to do something about this and they have not. When you someone who makes a threat towards someone on a game like this you have a social path and the law needs to do something about it. The person is with a group on mobsters called Unity With Honor they are Unity with Thugs My advice to anyone is if your child plays on this game keep a eye open for its happening very much. You never know who that person is or where they are and if they make a threat take it to the police.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:23 am
I was a member at one social video chat site (I won’t say which one) for a year. Everything was going good there. I had friends and respect there. Then, some new members (”trolls”) came and started harassing me by sending me hateful e-mails, private messages and making up heartless parodies of my screen name. I simply clicked “ignore” and “block”… and that seemed to have done the trick… for awhile. The “trolls” didn’t stop though. They were able to contact the majority of my ‘friends” and told them “lies” that I was talking about them behind their backs, therefore, turning my friends against me. I then started getting harassed by almost the entire site. I tried reporting it to the Admin, but they didn’t do anything about it. It felt like the Old West where a band of “desperados” would ride into town and raise hell with guns blazing… and no sheriff in town to protect me. Later, somebody was somehow able to get my full name, phone number and mailing address (possibly by means of “hacking”) and posted the information in one of the site’s video chat rooms, urging the “psychos” there to harass me as much as possible. A week later, somebody smashed in the windows of my family’s car as it sat in the driveway. I was also getting weird phone calls late at night and viruses sent to me through the computer. I finally left that site and went to another one that seemed more friendlier.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:56 am
hi Afraid For my 5yrs old and I, I am almost the same situation, maybe we could get together and submit something against myspace…..my husband ex wife, no children together, has created a myspace with my husband name, our pictures, posting our arrest records, someone else medical record, adding nasty comments about my husband and I…..I reported abuse to myspace nothing has been done….now I know for a fact this woman have violated laws and myspace terms of use, but like everywhere you need an attorney to do anything…..
October 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for sharing, say, do you have a twitter to follow?
October 26th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Thanks for putting on this info.. im working on a project and this website helped.. i dont like how people put rude comments,, cbyerbullying does need to stop..
October 27th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
It’s true that kids and teens should try to ignore all the harsh words that get sent to them and maybe kids and teens do need to be tougher than they are but there’s more to cyber-bullying than just harsh words. Being chased around from chat room to chat room is terrible, and it gets worse than that when the bullies spread rumours around and make other people avoid you especially when those rumours begin to coincide with real life.
October 30th, 2009 at 8:48 am
People who fight with others online all the time and cyber bully and rant there non-sense those people are cowards. In reality I don’t think they have a clue they just rant all the time online at people. Some of these people from what I been reading has mental illnesses.
October 30th, 2009 at 8:52 am
I reported mine to the police simple fact is that he is using harassment on many people & stalking others online. He is crazy. He laughs when we told him how stupid his fighting was and that he can be tracked by police he believes he can’t be tracked down. He’s been accused of being a predator by a few people as well. Not good….So hopefully the police will look into him.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
For anyone to say that laws against cyber bullying are ridiculous in any way, I’m sorry but I believe thats a load of crap. Yeah you need to learn how to be strong blah blah, but thats not the case here. The case is what crosses the line between “kids being kids” and “kids tormenting kids”. I personally could care less about people harassing me on the internet. I mean if it’s just like some random person saying “You’re dumb omg go kill yourself” I could care less because that person is obviously a low life and has nothing better to do wth their time. But the thing is not EVERYONE is like that. There have been people to commit suicide because of the awful way they have been treated and the horrible disgusting things that have been said to them by other people online. And those people (in my opinion) deserve to be punished just as much as any other criminal.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
What if it is happening to an adult. How can I get our Senate in Alabama to listen to me? How can I stop them?
December 1st, 2009 at 10:19 am
Back when I lived in Wisconsin, the cyberbullying was egocentric. It was out of control, destroying my life. I couldn’t even breathe. I couldn’t walk out of my own house. I would turn off my computer and it would come back on!!! I was a victim. OF CYBERBULLYING.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
i get cyber bullied all the time,some users from U.K Germany and Japan also here in the U.S i get cyber bullied from people i don’t know for no reason and they keep cursing,calling me mean names and horrible stuff and I was like “Who are these people?” I hated when that happens but I just ingnored them and reported them.
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April 20th, 2010 at 5:39 am
i was trying to contact facebook about this matter about posting my picture with tags of bad words without my consent. but then they just told me that they”ll get back to me… i dont know why they still keep that kind of fan page but i already sent them a report about this… what can i do… my lawyer wants to talk to them but then still now they’re not giving out there information
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:39 am
Protection against Children is great.. What about adults?? My 26 year old daughter committed suicide on April 8th after MONTHS of facebook harrassement, My Space, Texts and multi media harrassment and character defamation!
EACH AND EVERY STATE should protect ALL humans against these despicable, cowardly people.
May 12th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
no not really, how about you grow a spine and relize that words influence people, if Martin Luther the king jr. words can inspire a nation tio change its way for good then why cant these offensive words influens the oppressive feelings of rage and sadness that leads to suicide. on that note your not a wuss for being called a name your a human who undestands your right natrul human right to a prsence of self dignity.
and dont hide behind the first amendment coward, if you had a spine youd know that the first amendment dosnt allow the verbal assult or abuse that cyber bullying or bullying is. another asspect of my rant is the fact that if i cant go into a crowded area and shout fier or bomb then why should i or anyone else be aloud to go on the internet and advertise the harassment of others for there enjoyment. grow up and stop being childish.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:48 am
My 13 year old teenage daughter is being harassed through the computer and phone she doesnt know how the people got her cell phone number but they did.She is really upset and cant stop thinking if they are watching her at night or not. If you have any advice please give it 2 me so i can help her out Thanks.
May 23rd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
It is perfectly constitutional to allow schools to suspend for name-calling, though I do not condone it personally, as the government is not imposing any sort of penalty.
To fine or try someone for exercising their constitutional right to free speech is apalling. The government should not involve itself in free speech; I’d rather have thousands of adolescents commit suicide daily. It’s their problem.
May 26th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
I agree yes you can suck it u and turn off the computar, but what about megan meier. She was only 13 and the people who caused here suicide knew she was on medication. The person who is doing the bulying does not know there person emotional state or what they are going through. They need to be aware of that and their actions. To bully someone is pathetic. There needs to be a sate wide law to charge a person with a felony for causing the person to kill themselves because they kept harrasing them.
June 1st, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Everyone you have to listen to me laws or no laws cyber bulling or bulling will never stop no matter what you try to do it’ll still be there as long as people have free will and the ability to hate one another it can’t be stop i bet everyone here has at least ounce told someone you will hurt them in some way its no different friend or not u dont know how they will react as human nature “bulling” will always be around no laws will effect it and if some one has the balls to comitte sucide i suggest not to and to get help and to go see a pyschietrist for it but at a population of around 7Billion and grow with constent baby boomers be my guest we will run out of food soon it enethitable
June 10th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Also: Freedom of speech means that you are able to share your mind. But the second it turns to a platform to be used to hurt, embarrass, and torment someone, it’s no longer speech: It’s harassment. People, hello, there’s a difference. Thanks.
June 13th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
I have been dealing with one on youtube for 8 months. Youtube is known for trolls. i had to go to the police about the one im dealing with and they did not do didly squat. Recently this guy made up a fake email pretending i sent it to him and he put in in there i said i was going to kill his kids and perform oral on his children which is a lie
This guy has been suspended Multiple times from youtube and is coming back under different names. This guy also has made death threats towards me and my family and even said he was going to set my dog on fire
The police dont really do to much.
June 15th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
BEING CALLED A NAME IS ONE THING; BUT WHEN A PERSON THREATENS TO COME OVER TO YOUR HOUSE AND BEAT YOU UP, THAT IS MUCH MORE THAN “NAME CALLING”….IN THE LEGAL SYSYTEM, WHEN ONE PERSON THREATENS ANOTHER PERSON WITH BODILY WARM, NO MATTER HOW IT IS DONE, WRITTEN, VERBAL OR RELAYED THRU ANOTHER PERSON, THAT ACTION IS CONSIDERED TO BE “TERRORISTIC THREATENING” AND IN SOME CASES, THERE CAN RESULT IN FEDERAL PRISON TIME FOR THE PERSON DOING THE THREATENING.
June 15th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
I have been and still a victim of cyber bullying as well. where those this stop. I have been cyber bullied by the same individual for the last 6 years now . how does this come to and end. It first started with the name calling and slowly progressed to poisoning my cats to beating my 70 year father helpless and defenseless . name calling is one thing. Beating your elders for no reason sounds fun. I have to constantly remind myself God is in control. in do time everyone will reap what they sow. They think they are getting away with it, there not. They may get away from the law . They can not hide from God Almighty. To all cyber victims, try not to worry . I know and can relate how you feel. I lost many jobs and harrassed all day long at times ,people following me, slandering me,it really sucks you feel alone . There is something that helps me a great deal.It may help you. Pray everyday to God and a talk to him like you would to your bestfriend. Because at the end he will become your bestfriend. Try not to worry about do idiots doing wrong . Its only for a season they get away. Just be patient. Watch and see what happens to these people. They will reap what they sow. So I leave you with this look up and be strong . God is watching and he knows your heart. It will be ok. dont forget to Pray everyday. this will help you tremendously. Proverbs 3:5-6. God Bless you!
June 16th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
To all those on here who say “suck it up” how would you feel if it was one of your family members who committed suicide?
Laws will never completely get rid of cyberbullying, but communication between parents and children can help. If a child can not act responsibly with technology, texting, social media, and all that stuff then parents should consider parental control filters so they can stop their kids from harassing others. The bullies need to be taught a lesson, and it would be more efficient if it were done by a parent rather than a law…But like them or not, the laws against this activity are coming.
June 27th, 2010 at 9:04 am
This is ridiculous. So now it’s a felony to hurt someone’s feelings. So much for the first amendment. Now it’s freedom of expression as long as none of the other 300 million people in the country are offended by it. Good luck with that. “If you can’t say something nice then don’t say anything at all” is quickly becoming law. I guess satire comedy will be outlawed next. Palin already started that ball rolling.
July 17th, 2010 at 12:44 am
im being humiliated and harrased on myspace what do i do
August 4th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Hi, I’m an 18 year old girl who has been being cyber bullied for about a 1/2 year now. I’m curious if there is anything I could possibly do. My school called the police for me, but they say since it’s over facebook or out of school mostly, they can’t help. As I said, it’s been going on for a 1/2 year now and I never once have responded or EVER posted/said a thing about this girl. She simply hates me and tries to make my life living hell since I dated her ex at one point. I still have saved all the posts/statuses but is there any legal way I can make this stop? I’ve blocked her on facebook and all her friends so they can’t contact me the moment is started happening, but it continues. I can’t even report it anymore since I removed her. Oh, and both her and I live in Vermont.
November 22nd, 2010 at 8:07 pm
I am a public forum debater for my high school debate team. Topic for the December debates is on whether or not cyberbullying should be a criminal offense. I was wondering if anybody could tell me HOW the laws would be able to enforce theses types of laws. Unless people report it, there is no way to recognize what is going on. How can this law be enforced, how can one monitor the internet? A lot of the cyber bullying seems to be coming from face book and myspace, how do you monitor something like that? By going on to other peoples pages? That seems like a violation of privacy to me. Also, how do you judge what is cyberbullying and what is not? How do you determine the severety of the crime and the act? If someone has any ideas, I would love to hear them!!
Thanks
March 11th, 2011 at 11:49 am
For those who think these laws are a joke obviously mean that you are the cyberbully or bully or just don’t have a heart. Really, laws are made to punish people and to be teach them a lesson. I’ve never been cyberbullied in my life but what they’re experiencing are human feelings and since there’s therapists, why can’t there be laws? I’m a 13 years old student and I know better than those adults or teenagers who say these laws are a joke. You say you’ve never complained to anyone about being cyberbullied is only because you haven’t been cyberbullied, you are the cyberbully, or you actually did and just don’t want to admit that you were such a wimp. These people needs to be protected no matter age, gender, or race. Our brain knows how we feel at this will eventually lead to bad health. Feelings and emotions matter too, and anyone can get stressed over this because it’s just like how you can get frustrated of work, school, homework etc. Right now I’m working on cyber-bullying and I’ve found most cyber-bullies only do this because they are jealous, bored, think they are above everyone else or taking a negetive way of advantage of having so many electronic communicating devices. If you hate someone, keep it to yourself, don’t go around spreading rumors and making that peron’s life miserable. Once you’ve cyber bullied them, whatever they did that’s bad to you is not even clos to the bad thing of cyber bullying YOU did.
March 21st, 2011 at 9:39 am
Cyber Bullying needs to stop…why dont ppl just grow up and go up to the person and say something to them then. What do they just think that the person is gonna turn around and beat the crap out of them…what is some of these ppl problems…maybe all the ppl that cyber bully ppl are just really scared themselves…because the only reason they hurt ppl is because so they will feel better.
March 28th, 2011 at 7:59 am
I’ve been a victim of Cyber Bullying off and on for over 10 years now and I don’t know what to do about it. Problem is that I actually know my attackers and yet nothing can be done about it. I am tired of having websites written about me saying sick and twisted things that I would never think of doing. I’ve lost jobs, relationships, places to live, etc. How is it that people can get away with this? Oregon needs to get on board and pass strict laws to stop this behavior. It’s gotten way out of hand.
I would be interested in meeting with other victims in Oregon to brainstorm this and find a way to get it stopped.
April 7th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
My daughter is being cyberbullyed and it really hurts her. She afraid to go to school and she’s 16. She has 1 more year to graduation. She can’t quit because u can’t get into college with a GED. Can I get a restaing order?
April 16th, 2011 at 2:35 am
The way the world has gone to technology, the Cyber Bully Laws should get stricter. This isn’t something to play around with. When I was growing up Bullys were at school, playgrounds, and yes.. even church. If another person hurt you, they were suspended, expelled, or even went to Juvenile Hall. They had consequences, and so should Cyber bullies now that we are in the technical era. This is just common sense. As a parent, I stand behind any lawmaker willing to put an end to the type of people who allow others to influence kids via the internet to smoke, drink, do drugs, or any other illegal act. If that means sending kids to Juvie for what they post on MySpace, Facebook, Tweets, Text, Blogs or any other form of cyber connection. If we as parents do not stand up against this tragic new threat to our kids, who will?
April 19th, 2011 at 8:26 am
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April 23rd, 2011 at 4:36 am
I know people that have been bullied onlne and from other states. It is wrong. Because you are new on a site you are discriminated. Its not just schools and children, but its adults if they go to certain chat rooms and you are brand new they start. We need more harsh laws about it. Cyber bullying has caused even adults misery and grief. Being bullied hurts deeply both online and face to face. Adults people ADULTS are also doing this bullying. 28 year olds, 41 year olds, 60 year olds! Where can we not draw the line on cyber bullying?!
April 26th, 2011 at 10:45 am
I have been a victim of cyberbullying before, but it was nothing big. But it still hurts no matter what. I have also been a bystander and have watched good friends of mine be victims of this. Some comments are just uncalled for and thoughts that could possibly be hurtful need to be kept to one’s self. To the people that have left comments on here such as “Suck it up.”, “Move on with your life.”, “Ignore it.”, etc, some comments can just not be ignored or forgotten. Some comments are emotionally scarring and can leave a big impact on someone’s life, maybe even other people’s lives in some extreme cases. Even if you’re just joking, be careful what you say. Or make sure you put a “jk”, “lol”, or even a smiley face would work.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Whatever to the people that dont think this bullying is hurtin people. I have had 2 friends now kill themself because of all this staff. It hurts so bad to go everyday thinkin that if this bullying happen to them. It could happen to me. Yes i have had cyberbullying happen to me but i had controled it as soon as i had happen. you may think that it will never happen to you but it time to have a wake up it can happen to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 12th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Im so devasted I’ve been harrassed online for a year now. It all started on yelp when someone wrote a mean statement about me in one of the reviews . At work people started to call me this nasty name as well.. and now I get it on facebook and random people at school and work. Is there anything I can do about ? Im so sad that people are so cruel.
June 25th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
My son who is an adult has been cyberbullied for 5yrs now. It has affected his employment. He is also a disabled person. No one in law enforcement seems to take this serious because the laws are unclear. This is harassment and defamation of character.This bully is sick in the head and makes up all kinds of sexually perverted lies. I don’t understand why this society likes to believe the lies of a pervert instead of believing someone who has done nothing. There should not be freedom of speech when bullies are allowed to speak lies as if they are the truth.
July 17th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
I have been bullied at my school and online. This is real. And thats why Ohio should pass laws againt this. I was called horrible names by two girls that made me want to kill myself. I did get help for it. But I don’t want ANYONE to go through what I went through. If you think that Ohio should have laws, or for that matter, any state, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
July 17th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I just watched the ABC Family movie presentation called “CyberBully”. It was a very meaningfull movie that deals with a serious real life problem. At the end of the movie it said that 34 states have passed Anti-Cybuerbullying Laws. My question is, what about the rest of the states. How long is it gana take them to pass a law against this? It took some states the death of a child to pass a law like this, it shouldnt have to go that far for us to relize that this is a serious problem and it needs to be taken care of. Cyberbullying is no different that face-to-face bullying. Words still hurt rather there said in person, online, or through a phone. People need to watch for the signs, dont be affraid to ask for help. We cant keep allowing stuff like this to go too far. There are ways to stop this adn take care of it all, our world does not need to be like this.
July 31st, 2011 at 6:49 pm
okay listen,,,anyone who disagrees with these laws have some issues…i mean yeah, you have a right to your own opinion but does that mean that you need to share it with everyone?? specially to humiliate them publicly?? like that means you have some mental problems you need to get help for, just because the first amendment in the constitution says that you have a freedom of speech does not mean that you have to abuse or take advantage of that right, in some cases yes,, but to harm people emotionally,mentally,physically,spritually,,that is just wrong. so many deaths have been caused because of cyberbullying. murder is a felony anywhere and if you are a cause of someones death then technically your a murderer and should be put behind bars, i myself was a victim of cyberbullyin and i was for almost 3 years non stop and i was at the point of wanting to commit suicde and im only 14 years old, it’s ridiculous how harsh some people could be, any age. more of us should try to save peoples lives rather than ruin them to make yourself feel better about yourself. i’d really like to see someone try to comeback at me sayin that my post is ridiculous because honestly, be more mature, i am . more than alot of adults even because ive been through so much stuff in my life that most people dont have to experience and ive grown stronger but im only 14, i have a lot more life ahead of me and some girls and boys dont get to live longer than that because of how hurt they get from immature peers, think about that before you think about commenting something rude back to mee
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August 7th, 2011 at 10:15 am
cyber bullying does not just go away it affects all aspects of a child’s life, they just cant turn off the computer and hope it goes away because most of the kids that go to school with that child go to the same web pages and bring it to school, the mall, church. it does not stop but you can get help just go to your Principal most states have laws that help to stop it if a kid in your school is doing the cyber bullying, cyber bullying is punished by i.s.s that is in school suspension, suspension, a parent teacher conference, it usually does not involve the police or an arrest unless it involves threats. the laws were put in place to help the school stop it, kids need the law because they dont know how to deal with emotional attacks
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December 7th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I’ve been cyber bullied before and it’s not fun, and it’s not cool. It’s down right hurtful, and I ‘m overjoyed to know that people are putting down laws finally! I’m only 12 years old, But I’ve been harassed so many times, that I finally just learned to stand up for myself. If you’re afraid that someone will come after you physically OR verbally you should talk to an adult straight away! If you’re not scared to, then tell em’ like it is! I did!
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December 13th, 2011 at 8:58 am
I am now a senior in High School but I have been cyberbullied since at least 7th grade. I have been told to kill myself and I have tried. It got worse in High School when people would be posting my cell number online and wrote it in the bathroom stalls so people could harass me even more. Then it came out to real life when people threw eggs, snowballs and frozen water balloons in the midddle of the night. This is got to end right now because I am almost done. I am sick and tired of always getting told to commit suicide or just leave and never come back. I am actually beginning to wonder if I just should…
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January 20th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
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