House members seek ways to stop Internet bullying

House members struggled Wednesday for a way to stop Internet bullying of children without violating free speech.

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Woman charged with harassment over suggestive post

A Missouri woman is accused of cyberbullying for allegedly posting photos and personal information of a teenage girl on the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist after an Internet argument.

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Pew: One-Third of Online Teens Harassed

Nearly a third of online teens say they have been harassed on the Internet, with girls and participants of social-networking sites more likely to be targets, a study finds.

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States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying

Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies.

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This legislation represents an exercise in overcriminalization and poor draftsmanship not often seen, even in the Congress. A term as broad and as vague as "intent to . . .

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Cyberbullying is a growing problem in primary schools, according to the Anti-Bullying Alliance. In a small study carried out by the group in south east England, one in five children questioned said they had been bullied online or by phone.

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The House Judiciary Committee listened to testimonies this week that argued the differences between two proposed laws aimed at cyberbullying. The two bills take decidedly different approaches, and many of the experts at the hearing favored one that focused on education.

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This is a story of great importance to me as I didn't see justice done where the original case is concerned.

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A Missouri woman has been charged with cyberbullying for allegedly posting photos and personal information of a teenage girl on the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist after an Internet argument.

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A St. Peters woman was charged today with felony harassment against a teenager for allegedly creating a fake, sexually suggestive Craigslist ad in an apparent attempt at retaliation.

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This is an update on the Missouri mother in MySpace hoax case.

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A federal judge on Thursday threw out the conviction of a Missouri woman on charges of computer fraud for her role in creating a false MySpace account to dupe a teenager, who later committed suicide.

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Raphael H. Golb's apartment, located on a quiet, tree-canopied street in Lower Manhattan, one block from the New York University campus, does not evoke a traditional den of thieves. Nor does Mr.

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A few new laws take effect in California today, some more controversial than others. I know -- what's new.

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The Czech education ministry has drawn up guidelines for teachers to halt the spread of cyber bullying in schools. Some Czech children have attempted to blackmail teachers or classmates by posting video clips of them on the internet, a ministry spokesman said.

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A Beijing man who was the target of a "virtual lynching" by vigilantes after being blamed for his wife's suicide, has received a payout in China for the cyberbullying.

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THE New South Wales Government is planning a crackdown on cyber-bullying, prompted by research showing that up to one in seven children is being bullied, harassed or abused online in a new trend called "flaming".

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Faced with the danger of online predators, fraudsters and bullies, a group of Australian teenagers are putting their heads together with others from around the world to tackle internet crime.

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Sam's mother Sally Cope, 45, said the family only learnt of the cyberbullying when they checked his Bebo page after his death.

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When news came out a few months ago that a middle-aged adult named Lori Drew might have played a role in cyberbullying that led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier in Missouri (shown at right), the public was outraged -- even moreso because local and federal authorities sai …

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SOMEONE has posted a profile loaded with vicious accusations against a Brisbane teenager on a US website which wants to charge her a fee to remove the slurs. Samantha Fletcher, 15, says the cyber attack is the result of a schoolyard feud and wants the US website Dating Psychos t …

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Bullies used to be big, mean kids who preyed on smaller ones in the school playground. But with the Internet came cyberbullying, and the repercussions can be not only devastating but also deadly.

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Their daughters were the subject of rumours and had been bullied and threatened on their Bebo website pages. Rather matter of fact mention of cyberbullying related to an extremely serious case of harassment.

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ONE in five teenage girls deliberately accesses porn on the internet, encouraging some to engage in explicit sex, according to a leading teen psychologist.

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Leading websites need to increase their self-regulation to tackle a rise in cyberbullying, according to Scotland's largest teaching union.

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Good psych journal in US has published stats about cyberbullying. I can dig this out when I have time.

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Sarah Wells makes an unlikely cyber-vigilante. But the middle-aged mother in Virginia was outraged when she read a Saint Charles Journal article on Megan Meier, a 13-year-old Missouri girl driven to suicide by relentless online bullying.

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Ryan Halligan was taunted for months. Classmates spread rumours via instant messaging that the 13-year-old boy was gay. A popular female classmate pretended to like him and chatted with him online only to copy their personal exchanges and share them with her friends.

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Anonymity [perceived or illusory] has enabled the growth of dark sexual harassment from people who may never consider doing such a thing in real life. Stalking, harassment, threats...women in the blogosphere seem to be clamming up due to harassment.

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