Cyberbullying
Murder, theft, or arson are extremely fair reasons to put someone in jail, but is cyberbullying? Would people just be wasting the jury's time and taxpayers resources on cyberbullying cases or would it be a worthy idea? Some people believe that it is a good reason to prosecute a person, but it is undoubtedly not superb logic.
Cyberbullying is by no means a acceptable thing, but someone should not be criminally prosecuted for it. The article, Sacrificing the First Amendment to Catch “Cyberbullies” by Kirk Sigmon states “The last time I checked, hurting someone’s feelings-even in real life- never justified criminal prosecution.” This is unquestionably true because when was the last time you heard someone receive a prosecution for …show more content…
These people may think that the First Amendment should be treated “not as a right, but as a privilege,” which could be implied that the right should be withdrawn so that cyberbullying could be stopped. The senators of New York include exclusion in their definition of cyberbullying, and the article, Sacrificing the First Amendment to Catch Cyberbullies states “The idea that someone could be criminally prosecuted for refusing to allow someone to join, say, a guild in a videogame, is preposterous.” This proves that if we had people prosecuted for cyberbullying, then people could be going to jail for simply not letting some join in on a round of video games.
People, absurdly, think that people who cyberbully should be criminally prosecuted, but in actually they shouldn’t. It would waste taxpayer resources and they jury’s time. Potentially criminally prosecuting cyber bullies for excluding someone in a video game is unreasonable and foolish as is going to jail for online bullying, but not in person bullying. So is cyberbullying legitimately up there with murder, theft, and arson or are the NY senators completely wrong about the way we should handle
Cyber bulling is just as damaging as being bullied face to face. Most students that are cyber bullied tend to take their own lives either by hanging themselves or overdosing. Imagine if you walked into a room a help and others don’t because they tend to feel shame and helpless. When we look at male bullies By a vote of 5-4, The United States Supreme Court on held that the entencing a person to death for a crime committed while at age sixteen or seventeen years of age did not constitute Cruel and unusual punishment as prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. Justice Scalia, writing for the majority stated the imposition of capital punishment on an individual for a crime committed at the at sixteen or seventeen years of age does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.…
Similarly to the traditional bullying, cyberbullying consists of an intimidator or bully and a victim. In many situations, people generally take the victim’s side, because they appear weak and powerless. I believe that cyberbullying should be better regulated and not be protected under the First Amendment. Unlike other offensive acts like flag burning that illustrates disrespect, cyberbullying inflicts psychological and emotional harm that may potentially lead victims into committing negative acts. I believe that the First Amendment should be revised to adjust to today’s social situation, especially in terms of technology.…
Bullying in the World I am sure that people are aware that not everyone gets a great start to life, like Jeanette Walls in The Glass Castle. Many people across the world struggle with all kinds of hardships. Others think they understand these hardships, but I believe that no one can ever truly understand until they go through it themselves. People who grow up in a better situation could never really know the feeling of being in such a poor situation. One of the major causes of these hardships nowadays is bullying.…
Cyberbullying is hurtful and to do nothing about it is unacceptable. Despite that, there are the action plans set in place to stop cyberbullying. Are they doing too much or not enough? Suzanne Phillips the writer of “Cyberbullying is dangerous” believes to deal with the problem with more prevention and control. Tim Cushing the writer of “cyberbullying problem is overhyped” speaks of them doing too much and actually causing more harm than good.…
Cyberbullying is the use of communication to bully a person typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threating nature to another person. Bullying of any form is people claiming a sort of power in their lives by seeking out those who seem vulnerable and attacking them. Cyberbullying occurs with kids that have problem interacting with other. Which makes it easy for bullies to pick on them. In different states there are different laws that stops cyberbullying.…
In a survey done by the Joint ATL and Teacher Support Network Press Release (Document B) of all the people that had ever been cyber bullied, over half of them claimed that these events had a negative impact on their lives. This fact is important because it helps to demonstrate what major effects cyberbullying can cause. The next piece of evidence that could be used to argue to favor of limiting online speech is from a survey done by Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin at the Cyberbullying Research Center (Document A) suggests that over half of people attending school have been cyberbullied at least once in their lifetime. This proves how common cyberbullying occurs and how important it is for schools to take action. The final piece of evidence that could be used to argue in school’s defense would be from Russlyn Ali at the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.…
As read the informational article “Scarifying the First Amendment to catch ‘Cyberbullies’”, Kirk Sigmon explains about the freedom speech. The author explains the direct text of the first amendment and how anybody as cruel as somebody wishes. Concluding, cyberbullying is not illegal, is a right the Constitution created. There is also, however, a further point to be considered. Cyberbullies can use the wrong, false, made up, and even somebody else’s information to mislead the real data of the cyberbully.…
The Prosecution of Cyberbullies Twenty percent of children ages 11-18 have been cyberbullied, and 10% of those have also been the offender of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a growing problem among the teens of this new, technology-driven generation. Many people have the opinion that cyberbullies should be prosecuted. Offenders of cyberbullying cause harm to the victim and are becoming more common in society.…
There was a time when the internet wasn’t a thing. Back in the old days, if a person wanted to bully someone would have to do it in person. Since we have the internet now, a person could bully someone with their mind and social media. Schools should limit students’ online speech because students are cyberbullied, cyberbullying causes harassment, and teachers and staff and be affected by cyberbullying too. One reason why schools should limit students online speech is that students can hurt other students’ feelings.…
In this article, the author speaks about whether new laws are needed for cyberbullying or not. Billeteri quotes Gary Aubuchon when he says “By making it law rather than school board policy, we are adding an extra layer of emphasis on how important it is to protect our children at all times” (Billetteri). Also, this article speaks about violating constitutional rights with the laws that have been made against cyberbullying. In Thomas Billiterri’s “Cyberbullying”, he speaks about the laws that are set for bullying, whether or not they are unconstitutional, and can schools regulate what happens outside of the school…
social media is not to be blamed for cyber bullying as it can be used for good as well. but sometimes with certain people it can be used to harm others. people who are cyberbullied are more likely to use alcohol…
In fact, bullying is already punished in schools, and cyberbullying is no different than bullying: both actions hurt other students significantly and in common ways. Cyberbullying is a real crime, even though there’s no official name for it (yet). Legally, cyberbullying can be considered a form of harassment, online impersonation, disruptive activities (CriminalDefenseLawyer.com), and disorderly conduct, the latter being defined as “conduct that disturbs the peace or endangers the morals, health, or safety of a community,” on TheFreeDictionary.com. Cyberbullying does disturb the peace and safety of students in school who fall victim to this crime, for they fear the cyberbully. These real crimes can range anywhere from a class B misdemeanor to a felony, which means jail time for the perpetrator just for saying a few harsh words on the Internet.…
A fact that I already know about the topic is that almost every teenager today will experience or has experienced cyberbullying at some point in their lives. In a way cyberbullying relates to human rights. Anyone who participates in the act of cyberbullying they have the human right to say anything they please on the internet to anyone. I am interested in this topic because I am a victim of cyberbullying. The acts of cyberbullying that I have experienced range from me ignoring it and letting it go to breaking down crying to being physically hurt.…
However, that is not true. One of the reasons cyberbullying is not a large concern is that not many students have actually cyberbullied others. Only 18% of surveyed students in a US School District have cyberbullied in their lifetimes. In perspective, that’s 848 out of 4734 students in the district [A]. By allowing schools to punish students involved in cyberbullying, many other aspects of the suspected bully would be accessed as well, which could and most likely would contain interactions with other children who had nothing to do with any of the bullying.…
Bill Belsey, a writer from cyberbullying.org, says, “Cyber bullying is defined as: The use of information and communication technologies to support…