More Destructive Than Physical Bullying- Cyber-Bullying
More destructive than physical bullying- Cyber-bullying
The article “Anti Cyber Bullying” discusses the issue of cyber bullying from the aspects of its world-wide phenonmenon, popularity and features. Gerrish defines hidden cyberbullies as anonymous internet users who post spiteful messages online in order to gain satisfaction after causing pressure to the specific victim/s (¶2).
Gerrish deems that due to the ease of hidding idendity in the virtual word, people can spread hatred with no worries(¶2). He points out that unlike physical (traditional) bullying, cyber bullies no long do direct physical violience to the intended targets but to attack them by instilling threats and emotional agressions by videos, pictures or words online (¶7- 8).
The passage reveals that the humiliation gained sometimes causes tragedies such as fighting or even suicide, seeing the incresing number of mishaps(¶8), legalised actions have been required to fight against cyber intimidation(¶10). However, according to Gerrish, the implementation of law against cyber bullying is not effective and promising because people claim that they have the right of speech to voice their views (¶10).
It appears to me that cyber bullying is a more rampant problem than the physical one because cyber bullying seems to have the advantage of evading from bearing legal responsibility. Personally, in order to deter the problem of cyber intimidation, a more specific regulation should be set up by the government which clearly states that what kinds of Internet behaviors may be considered as crime. Otherwisw, the number of misfortunes caused by cyber bullying is believed to increase continuously. Undoubtedbly, the legal system now is incompetent to solve to problem of cyber
The article “Anti Cyber Bullying” discusses the issue of cyber bullying from the aspects of its world-wide phenonmenon, popularity and features. Gerrish defines hidden cyberbullies as anonymous internet users who post spiteful messages online in order to gain satisfaction after causing pressure to the specific victim/s (¶2).
Gerrish deems that due to the ease of hidding idendity in the virtual word, people can spread hatred with no worries(¶2). He points out that unlike physical (traditional) bullying, cyber bullies no long do direct physical violience to the intended targets but to attack them by instilling threats and emotional agressions by videos, pictures or words online (¶7- 8).
The passage reveals that the humiliation gained sometimes causes tragedies such as fighting or even suicide, seeing the incresing number of mishaps(¶8), legalised actions have been required to fight against cyber intimidation(¶10). However, according to Gerrish, the implementation of law against cyber bullying is not effective and promising because people claim that they have the right of speech to voice their views (¶10).
It appears to me that cyber bullying is a more rampant problem than the physical one because cyber bullying seems to have the advantage of evading from bearing legal responsibility. Personally, in order to deter the problem of cyber intimidation, a more specific regulation should be set up by the government which clearly states that what kinds of Internet behaviors may be considered as crime. Otherwisw, the number of misfortunes caused by cyber bullying is believed to increase continuously. Undoubtedbly, the legal system now is incompetent to solve to problem of cyber