New Legislation for Dealing with Cyberbullying

Running head: CYBERBULLYING
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Introduction
Cyberbullying had become a growing problem faced by people of all ages especially
teenagers all over the world. This leads to various serious consequences. Cyberbullying can
be defined as a particular type of bullying that occurs with the use of electronic technology.
Electronic technology might include various devices including various equipment’s like
computers, tables, cell phones and many more. Some more devices include communication
tools like social media sites, chat, websites, text messages and many more. Cyberbullying
includes sending mean messages or similar emails that are posted on social networking sites
as well as embarrassing pictures, websites, videos, as well as websites. This particular
assignment discusses regarding the reasons for which new legislation are required in the
aspect of dealing with cyberbullying.
Discussion
There does not exist any tough law at federal level over more than half of the states in
the UK, some states have included various languages in their laws on the concept of
cyberbullying for the purpose of including the entire concept in the light of growing concern
among the parents of children. The basic components of these laws usually stay the same, in
that any sort of defamatory, aggressive behaviour, persistent demeaning towards a particular
individual would be met with the justice system of juvenile (Foody, Samara and El Asam
2017). New legislation are necessary to be introduced which would help in dealing with
cyberbullying. The introduction of new legislation is very important because it would hold
schools as well as teachers for the purpose of reporting as well as acting in such cases of
cyberbullying. In this case schools would be compelled by law for taking action in order to
correct behaviour or face various legal ramifications. Cyberbullying does not actually occur
very often as it is assumed by people. Besides these kinds have become vigilant in the

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concept of curbing the issues. This helps in raising awareness among people regarding the
safety against the crime of cyberbullying. This further creates a very positive, helping culture
in general for various kids (Coburn, Connolly and Roesch 2015). Schools functions along
with various materials had emphasized one the concept of ending the issue of cyberbullying
which has helped in strengthening comradery as well as respect among the students. Various
surveys had shown the fact that when the matter comes to how the parents feel regarding
punishing the bullies, most of them believed that if bullying takes place between the
classmates, the school must be provided the authority to handle the issues.
There are various reasons for which new legislation must be introduced for the
purpose of combatting the issues occurred due to cyberbullying, these reasons are as follows
Response and retaliation: usually victims of cybercrimes tend to respond to the
messages, emails and threats provided by bullies. They do not consult with any elder
guardian for the purpose of receiving their suggestions (Hinduja and Patchin 2015). In some
cases, aggressors are looking for a particular reaction, this is because they think that it would
give them power over the user. The users should remember the fact that getting back at a
certain bully turns the user into himself and might set off a particular chain reaction of cheap
actions. The legislation would help a user to remove them from this particular situation.
Help: in case the behaviour of the bully is bothering a particular user, legislation
would help the users to get rid of them.
Protecting the accounts: the legislation would help users to secure their passwords
from reach of any one.
Prevention measures: some prevention measures that would be provided to users with
the use of legislation include the ways how users can generate a strong password, they would
have some instructions like including a capital letter, a number and a special character while