Why Do Cyber Bullying Laws Need to Be Enforced?
Why do Cyber Bullying Laws Need to be Enforced?
Several middle school students in western New York created a Facebook event invitation Oct. 21, and they invited 60 of their friends to participate in a plan to torment the sixth-grader the next day. As the result, 10 accepted the invitation and some of the students posted offensive comments; one even proposed to kill the boy. When the mother of the proposed victim found out about that, she contacted to school officials. This is common news for many towns and cities in the U.S. Many people don’t know what cyber-bullying is. Cyber-bullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms, or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass or intimidate someone. Cyber-bullying is often done by children and teens, who have increasingly early access to these technologies. According to the Cyber-bullying Research Center, there are no federal laws against cyber-bullying and there are only 5 states which have laws against cyber-bullying. Due to this point, it’s becoming obvious that there should be some federal and state laws made against cyber-bullying due to its harmful effects.
Cyber-bullying is one of the major important causes of depression in teens, mainly in high school and middle school teens. If any of the students get bullied in online, this has effects on his/her attendance in school and even in his/her study habits. Sometimes cyber-bullying fuels prejudice in areas such as race, religion, and sexuality. It’s an effective way to destroy a teenager’s confidence which may lead to some suicidal thoughts. But some people say that we don’t need any more new laws. One of them is Paul Butler, law professor of George Washington University. He says,” We don’t need any new criminal laws. We have more than enough right now -- 4,000 federal crimes, and many times that number of state crimes. If prosecutors can’t find anything to charge a particular cyber-bulling with, that bully has not
Several middle school students in western New York created a Facebook event invitation Oct. 21, and they invited 60 of their friends to participate in a plan to torment the sixth-grader the next day. As the result, 10 accepted the invitation and some of the students posted offensive comments; one even proposed to kill the boy. When the mother of the proposed victim found out about that, she contacted to school officials. This is common news for many towns and cities in the U.S. Many people don’t know what cyber-bullying is. Cyber-bullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms, or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass or intimidate someone. Cyber-bullying is often done by children and teens, who have increasingly early access to these technologies. According to the Cyber-bullying Research Center, there are no federal laws against cyber-bullying and there are only 5 states which have laws against cyber-bullying. Due to this point, it’s becoming obvious that there should be some federal and state laws made against cyber-bullying due to its harmful effects.
Cyber-bullying is one of the major important causes of depression in teens, mainly in high school and middle school teens. If any of the students get bullied in online, this has effects on his/her attendance in school and even in his/her study habits. Sometimes cyber-bullying fuels prejudice in areas such as race, religion, and sexuality. It’s an effective way to destroy a teenager’s confidence which may lead to some suicidal thoughts. But some people say that we don’t need any more new laws. One of them is Paul Butler, law professor of George Washington University. He says,” We don’t need any new criminal laws. We have more than enough right now -- 4,000 federal crimes, and many times that number of state crimes. If prosecutors can’t find anything to charge a particular cyber-bulling with, that bully has not