Tuesday, November 26, 2013

What is cyberbullying?

Cyberbulling.. Making people feel like harassed, or stalked.
Unfortunately, some people on social media think that they have rights to make fun of the others in a bad way- by bulling. There are some examples in NYTimes' post "In September, a federal appeals court in Nevada, for instance, sided with school officials who suspended a high school sophomore for threatening, through messages on Myspace, to shoot classmates. In 2011, an Indiana court ruled that school officials had violated the Constitution when they disciplined students for posting pictures on Facebook of themselves at a slumber party, posing with rainbow-colored lollipops shaped like phalluses." Controlling these kind of things is very difficult but I agree with the writer about keeping balance for rights of students' free speeches against the dangers of cyberbulling. "Educators find themselves needing to balance students’  rights of free speeches against the dangers children can get into at school and sometimes with the law because of what they say in posts on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr"

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/technology/some-schools-extend-surveillance-of-students-beyond-campus.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131029

1 comment:

  1. Blocking people is the easiest way to avoid cyber bullying. They will not be able to interact with you if you are blocked. People have their opinions, as stupid as they can be at times but that is the freedom of speech.

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