http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs...llying-law.asp

What do you think of this?

I for one stand in solidarity to any and all human beings who have been at the mercy of someone who abuses power.

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This is a great resource.
http://www.bullyoffline.org/action/recover.htm

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Yeah good idea, haven't we done enough to make our children completely unprepaired for the real world?

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Conan! What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women

Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a **** how crazy they are!

Wind, thank you so much for bringing this issue to our attention. It was very thoughtful of you.

To me, the issue of online bullying is primarily relevant ONLY in cases when the victim is KNOWN in real life. In other words, where there is a release of personal information that infringes upon the victim in the school or community, and where the child is subjected to personal harassment.

I have a child in middle school, and myspace and other social networking sites can be extremely detrimental to young people when parents are not supervising their child's internet usage. These young people can really be damaged, and the damage can be irreparable.

It amazes me that parents allow their children carte blanche access to the internet with no supervision. My daughter has a myspace, but I helped her create it, and I have access to it at any time so I can check on her activities.

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The Internet provides the perfect forum for cyberbullies, individuals whose aim is to gain gratification from the distress caused by provoking and tormenting others.

The anonymity, ease of provocation, and almost infinite source of targets means the Internet is full of predators from pedophiles targeting children to serial bullies targeting ... anybody.

Cyberbullies get a perverse sense of satisfaction (called gratification) from sending people flame mail and hate mail. Flame mail is an email whose contents are designed to inflame and enrage. Hate mail is hatred (including prejudice, racism, sexism etc) in an email.

Serial bullies harbour a lot of internal aggression which they direct at others.

This may include projection, false criticism and patronising sarcasm whilst contributing nothing of any value. It may also include a common tactic of "a number of people have emailed me backchannel to agree with me". This is standard bully-speak which I've experienced on several forums.

In every case it's a fabrication or a distortion - usually the former. It's also a variant of the serial bully head teacher who says "a number of parents have complained to me about you...". When challenged, the identity of the alleged complainants can't be disclosed because it's "confidential".

The purpose of this tactic is to wind people up. Don't be fooled into believing it has any validity - it doesn't.

People who bully are adept at creating conflict between those who would otherwise pool negative information about them.

The method of creating conflict is provocation which bullies delight in because they know they can always coerce at least one person to respond in a manner which can then be distorted and used to further flame and inflame people. And so it goes on.

The bully then sits back and gains gratification from seeing others engage in destructive behaviour towards each other. This is known as trolling - see: Trolling The Web for more information about their tactics.

Most serial bullies are also serial attention-seekers. More than anything else they want attention. It doesn't matter what type of attention they get, positive or negative, as long as they can provoke someone into paying them attention.

It's like a 2-year-old child throwing a tantrum to get attention from a parent. The best way to treat bullies is to refuse to respond and to refuse to engage them - which they really hate.

In other words, do not reply to their postings, and on forums carry on posting without reference to their postings as if they didn't exist. In other words, treat nobodies as nobodies.

http://www.urban75.org/info/bullying.html

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and interestingly enough, it also provides a forum for passive aggressives, agitpropists, liars and manipulaters of all stripes.

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There are only two things wrong with this great nation of ours, democrats and republicans!

Not necessarily in that order.

Cyber-bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others."

Cyberbullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender, but it may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e., hate speech).

Cyber-bullies may disclose victims' personal data (e.g. real name or workplace/schools) at websites or forums, or may attempt to assume the identity of a victim for the purpose of publishing material in their name that defames or ridicules them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-bullying

We have to recognize bullying and name it when we see it. It is an abuse of power.

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Cyber Bullying can take many forms. These are a few:

· A threatening e-mail
· Nasty instant messaging session
· Repeated notes sent to the cell phone
· A website set up to mock others
· “Borrowing” someone’s screen name and pretending to be them while posting a message.
· Forwarding supposedly private messages, pictures, or video to others.

http://www.isafe.org/imgs/pdf/educat...erBullying.pdf

What actually happened to me on another political forum was that I reported a poster for using foul racist and sexist language and the forum 'moderator' publically posted my report of harassment in order to mock and ridicule.and several of the 'moderators' ganged up for more ridicule.

That happened just before I joined this forum. (I lasted at that forum for a few days)

It may allow some insight into my sensitivity about moderators or any bully poster who abuses his/her power through anonynanimity of the internet.

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A cyberstalker may send repeated, threatening, or harassing messages by the simple push of a button; more sophisticated cyberstalkers use programs to send messages at regular or random intervals without being physically present at the computer terminal.

California law enforcement authorities say they have encountered situations where a victim repeatedly receives the message "187" on their pagers - the section of the California Penal Code for murder.

In addition, a cyberstalker can dupe other Internet users into harassing or threatening a victim by utilizing Internet bulletin boards or chat rooms. For example, a stalker may post a controversial or enticing message on the board under the name, phone number, or e-mail address of the victim, resulting in subsequent responses being sent to the victim. Each message -- whether from the actual cyberstalker or others -- will have the intended effect on the victim, but the cyberstalker's effort is minimal and the lack of direct contact between the cyberstalker and the victim can make it difficult for law enforcement to identify, locate, and arrest the offender.

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cyberc...erstalking.htm

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