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A Tangled Web of Hate

ATTENTION: Mature Content Matter. May Contain Nudity and Sexual Themes.

Cyber bullying is something that has evolved with technology. Prank phone calls and mean chain letters have become less necessary when the world wide web provides instant and often anonymous bullying. Children are falling victim to Facebook libel – sometimes taking their own lives to escape. Catherine Bernard committed suicide in February, 2012. She lived in Melbourne, Australia and had suffered severe depression brought on by cyber-bullying. She was not the first victim and she will not be the last. Unless something is done.

According to a recent global poll, Australia rates number one in the world for bullying on social networks like Facebook, with nine in 10 families reporting a child’s brush with bullies online.

Playground and classroom bullying has now spilled into the household. Once a sanctuary of peace and protection, children are only a click away from being bullied on their cell phones, email accounts, and facebook walls.

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  • ssg45

    I was cyberbullied to the point where I contacted a lawyer, and I’m in my 20′s. It’s like the internet’s capable of causing a regression in otherwise normal[ish?] people, if something incites them. I wish I could send this to all these assholes, but I have less than no desire of contacting those pathetic lowlives. Lowest of the low = bullies.

  • madscirat

    I love trolls. They are the guardians of the internets. They keep sensitive little fools who take themselves too seriously out. They attack stupid ideologies and atavistic religions which try to intimidate individuals as they have for ages in the meat-o-sphere. They hang a sign above the door which reads, ‘abandon all pretension ye who enter here.’

    This documentary assumes that ugly or eccentric people are the most victimized online, but the net is in fact a refuge for such people (and I should know since I am one). Before the net, one’s social group was limited to their highschool but now through the web people who don’t fit in can reach out and find others who can relate.

    As for kids they shouldn’t be on the internet unsupervised anyway though I’m sure their vapid parents are already well at work reasoning how it is the responsibility of the netizenry to chaperone them. The scary thing about irrational parent psychology is that they can easily justify destroying free speech on the net to eliminate the .0001% chance that their precious Brittany who’s been told she is a precious princess since she was five will off her self when she finds that not everyone agrees.