SINGAPORE: No plans for cyber-bullying laws
Home Affairs minister stresses combating cyber-bullying through education, reiterates existing laws adequate
The Straits Times
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
THERE are no plans to enact laws to deal specifically with cyber-bullying, as offenders can already be punished under existing laws.
But Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said his ministry would “monitor the situation.”
A [...]
No single explanation can account for all self-destructive behavior. Edwin Shneidman, a clinical psychologist who is a leading authority on suicide, described ten characteristics that are commonly associated with completed suicide. Schneidman’s list includes features that occur most frequently and may help us understand many cases of suicide.
1. The common purpose of suicide is [...]
FACEBOOK and Twitter may have handed bullies some powerful new avenues for attack, but they are still most active in the playground, an Australian study shows.
Research taking in more than 600 children found that 37 per cent had experienced bullying - of which just seven per cent was a more tech-savvy version of “cyber bullying”.
Psychologist Kay [...]
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Cyberbullies and LGBT
By Psych Central News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on March 9, 2010
Cyberbullying is on the rise: Children and teens are being bullied through the Internet in chat rooms, on social networking websites, via email and even through mobile [...]
Open slather on websites as teachers targeted
By Jessica Brown
Updated Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:09pm AEDT
600 people signed up to one site which denigrated a female maths teacher at one school (ABC News: Tim Leslie)
Map: Leeming 6149
There’s a new target in cyber-bullying.
One in 10 children experience bullying on the internet but social networking sites such [...]
First Posted: 03-24-10 09:25 PM | Updated: 03-25-10 12:30 PM
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Alexis Pilkington was a popular athlete, a well-liked star who had already landed a soccer scholarship to college. But none of that stopped the 17-year-old from becoming [...]
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Bully Web Site Lands Missouri Teen in Jail
by Terrence O’Brien — Oct 16th 2009 at 4:16PM
Cyber-bullying has become a major issue around the world. Teens across the U.S. and across the pond in Europe find themselves constantly faced with this new form of harassment. But if we had to pick one place as the epicenter [...]
By David Mark for PM and staff
Posted Thu May 7, 2009 6:20pm AEST
Updated Fri May 8, 2009 9:41am AEST
The MySpace posting shows adolescent girls at their bullying worst. (ABC News: Giulio Saggin, file photo)
Map: Sydney 2000
Two adolescent girls have been forced to leave one of Sydney’s elite private schools because of cyber-bullying.
The girls were [...]
Cyber-bullies
Editorial Desk
The Korea Herald
Publication Date: 06-10-2008
The recent suicide of actress Choi Jin-sil is fueling the debate about the need to regulate cyberspace.
According to accounts by Choi’s family and acquaintances, as well as her writings, Choi was driven to take her own life largely as a result of cyber-bullying. She was greatly disturbed by [...]
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Mabel is a 15-year-old student, who stumbles upon an anonymously-written blog one day which identifies her as ‘one of the top three ugliest girls [...]
"Cyber bullying is a particularly insidious type of bullying as it can follow people wherever they go and the anonymity that it seemingly affords to the perpetrator can make it even more stressful for victim." - Edballs