Cyberbullying
A 17-year-old boy in Perth, Australia has been sentenced to 12 months in juvenile detention for pressuring underage girls to perform sexual acts on a webcam and then posting the videos on Facebook. The boy, unidentified for his age, created a Facebook account under the name of a known student bully, Australian Associated Press reports. [...]
The General Assembly approved and the governor has signed legislation – The Safe Schools Act – directing the Rhode Island Department of Education to establish a model policy on cyberbullying prevention. The new law directs the Department of Education to provide an age-appropriate model policy on bullying prevention to ensure a unifi ed, statewide policy [...]
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The Indianola Police Department is taking a proactive step to prevent children from becoming victims of Internet crime. Parents are invited to attend an Internet Safety for Parents course on Tuesday, July 26, to learn how to monitor their children’s online activity and recognize possible Internet crimes. Officer Justin Keller will be leading the class. [...]
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(Courtesy of Larry Magid at SafeKids.com – Mike) Although there are plenty of tools that can be used to try to control or monitor what your kids are doing online, the best approach for most parents is that oldest of tools called conversation. Having an occasional chat with your kids about how they’re using technology [...]
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FRIDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) — A new study finds that the practice of “sexting” — sending salacious texts or nude photos over the Internet — is now a key tool for Americans bent on infidelity. Sexting, which notoriously cost former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner his job, is “alive and well,” said sociologist Diane Kholos [...]
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In my recent article, “The NEA and WWE’s New Anti-Bullying Campaign,” I questioned the National Education Association and the Creative Coalition for partnering with WWE to create the Be A Star anti-bullying program. Many people, specifically fans of the WWE and Ms. Robin Bronk, Executive Director of the Creative Coalition, disagree with my assessment that [...]
Only two social networking sites make minors’ profiles private by default, according to a test of 14 such sites conducted for the European Commission. The test aimed to find out whether the sites were complying with the E.U.’s Safer Social Networking Principles, a self-regulatory agreement that they signed up to in 2009. Only Bebo and [...]
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A group of UK copyright lobbyists held confidential, closed-door meetings with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries to discuss a plan to allow industry groups to censor the Internet in the UK. The proposal has leaked, and it reveals a plan to establish “expert bodies” that would decide which websites British people [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg authorized a bill on June 9 for the safety of students terrorized by cyber bullying. The bill was written by Councilmembers Mark Weprin and Larry Fidler. “Too many children and teens have suffered for no good reason,” said Weprin. “If we want our children to grow up in a nurturing and compassionate [...]
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Bullying can take many forms, but girls are often more likely than boys to use a subtle, indirect and emotional form of bullying called relational aggression. Relational aggression encompasses behaviors that harm others by damaging, threatening or manipulating one’s relationship with her peers, or by injuring a girl’s feeling of social acceptance. The Girl Scout [...]
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