Tag: BULLYING

The parents of Tyler Clementi -- the 18-year-old Rutgers student who committed suicide last year after his classmates secretly recorded and streamed video of him having sex -- said yesterday that they want his former roommate Dharun Ravi's invasion of privacy case prosecuted, though they do not want him to receive "harsh punishment." His parents hope that the invasion of privacy charges will ...

A boy from Sydney, Australia has gone from victim to Internet hero practically overnight. A recently posted video shows the 16-year-old Casey Heynes absorbing abuse from a much smaller (and younger) bully before finally snapping, lifting the other boy in the air and slamming him to the concrete -- hard. The footage has made the rounds not only online, but onto mainstream media news shows in the ...

Facebook is expected to unveil a new set of anti-bullying tools today at the White House Conference for Bullying Prevention in Washington, D.C. The changes, designed to "create a culture of respect" among Facebook users, are focused on two main areas: a revamped safety center, and a broader array of more social mechanisms for reporting offensive or threatening content. The social network's ...

Yesterday, both houses of the New Jersey state legislature passed an 'Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights,' just a few months after 18-year-old Rutgers student and cyberbully target Tyler Clementi committed suicide. The bill, which is now awaiting the signature of Governor Chris Christie, would require most public school employees to take training courses on how to pick up on cyberbullying, while ...

After demolishing a group of hapless suckers at 'Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos,' Eric Hamber decided to indulge in some self-congratulatory trash talk.The hapless suckers then decided to beat him up. The attack reportedly went down early last week, during lunch period at Hamber's high school. According to police in Vancouver, the garrulous gamer was confronted by the same group of kids he'd ...

The Internet and social networking may have given bullies a new venue through which to torment their targets, but what they often forget is that it has also given their victims a new avenue through which to seek recourse. Alexis Xanders realized this and took video someone had recorded of her being harassed, and ultimately punched in the face, and posted it on YouTube and CNN's iReport. The ...

Cyber-bullying has become a major issue around the world. Teens across the U.S. and across the pond in Europe find themselves constantly faced with this new form of harassment. But if we had to pick one place as the epicenter of this disturbing new trend it would be Missouri. The home state of Megan Meier, a girl who committed suicide just before her 14th birthday as a result of being bullied ...

Cyber-bullying is nothing new. In fact almost as long as there has been an Internet, there have been people cold enough to use it for public mocking and abuse. Although it's one thing to post mean things on MySpace or harass someone via IM, it's yet another when there is a site that is essentially completely dedicated to anonymous cyber-bullying. PeoplesDirt.com has been shut down twice since ...

According to the Associated Press, 21-year-old Nicole Williams faces criminal charges after sending vulgar and threatening text messages to a 17 year-old girl. She is one of the first in Missouri to be charged under the state's cyber-bullying law. The law was created in response to the 2006 suicide of 13 year-old Megan Meier. According to the charges, Williams left voice and text messages on the ...

It used to be that so called cyber-bullying merely meant harassing someone via instant message or saying mean things on MySpace, but online bullying is increasingly becoming a full-on public multimedia blitz of photos, videos, and fake user profiles. Take for example the case of Ricky Alatorre, a 16 year-old with plenty of book smarts, but not a whole lot of friends. Someone snapped a picture ...