Cyberbullying: Laws and Regulations

The provided document is an analysis of cyberbullying as a significant societal issue that affects individuals negatively. It highlights the importance of government intervention in formulating laws to prevent and address cyberbullying incidents, such as blackmailing, sending vulgar messages, and posting inappropriate content.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Evaluate the reasons for the introduction of new legislation to deal with the problem of
cyberbullying...............................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Cyberbullying is a practice where a person or group uses the internet to discourtesy,
harm, harass another people. Cyberbullying can be an act of harassing someone through internet
or online by posting and sending mean messages usually unidentified (Cherian, 2019). These
kind of activities harm the society thorough various ways and negatively affect the people. There
are various protection and prevention laws and regulations are beloved by the government of
various nations to protect people form these kind of activities.
MAIN BODY
Evaluate the reasons for the introduction of new legislation to deal with the problem of
cyberbullying
Cyberbullying refers to the use of technology such as the internet, email, cell phones,
social media or pictures to harass, embarrass, threaten or target an individual. Mostly it occurs
among young people but when an adult is involved in it than mean cyber harassment or cyber
stalking. It is crime that can have legal consequences and consist imprisonment. Now these days
most of the people use technology and it is rapidly advancing so it is easy to harm or harass any
individual. Cyber bullying not only harm any individual physically but also it harm them
mentally. There are two types people who are likely to bulling to those people who are socially
active and those who are socially inactive. Bullying is linked to numerous negative outcomes
such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse and suicide etc.
Now these days, children and adults use internet and social media at high level so this
problem highly affect them. Because at social site they make friends easily without knowing in
about them so this is big reason of cyberbullying and they start them to black them fulfil their
any demand. Youths do not communicate about these kind of problems with their parents cause
of fear and it will make the situation worse and these people harm to themselves. There are
various reasons of occurring the problem of cyber bulling and some of them are as following:
Sending inappropriate text message- There are different ways to harass the people
through online mode or internet. There are various individual who bull other people by sending
them unethical, wrong and vulgar messages (Del Rey, Casas and Ortega, 2016). Text bulling is a
become a serious problem among teens and adults because in current era, they are using social
media and internet highly and make friends on these kind of sites. So when they chose wrong
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one than are harass by the individual by sending mean, embarrassing, untrue or hurtful messages.
So the main reason of this problem is that the new generation affected by this problem and
cyberbullying impacted the mentality and thinking capacity of them in negative and bad manners
so they take wrong decisions like suicide etc. So it is necessary for the government that they
framed some new laws to remove and resolve these kind of problems.
Posting statements online that are vulgar and unacceptable- This problem is not only
affect adults and youths but also impacted the profession and professional people also. For
example, there are various comments and news spread on the social sites in about celebrities and
reputed persons which is a way of cyberbullying (Garaigordobil and et. al., 2015). Sometimes,
there are some statements are so vulgar that affect and hurt these professional people that they
take wrong decision which affect their life, career and profession also. So the major reason of
cyberbullying against these persons are that lack of government regulation. If these people
affected by this problem than the society and the nation also influenced in negative way. So there
are need that national authorities design various laws to reduce this issues.
Blackmailing with certain demands- In current era, teenagers highly use various
technologies and different social media sites, there they make contact with others. When they
make contact with wrong and untrue person than they are affected by this problem and issues in
various ways, blackmailing is one of them. These individual starts blackmailing to them in
different manners like posting videos, photos and others to fulfil their demands. Various youths
follow and use this vulgar way to hurt and harass any female and they do not share their problem
with their parents and take wrong decisions. This also affect them in form of depression, anxiety
and others. So the reason of this problem is that limited laws and high level use of internet so
there are requirement of developing new laws to make control on cyberbullying.
Secretly recorded photos and videos that are taken without the subject's knowledge-
This the another reason to formulated new laws regarding cyberbullying. There are number of
people who are affected by this way. Mostly females are affected by this way. For example,
when a boy want to make friendship with a girl and the girl refuse. Than the individual start to
bull by using this unethical way. The person secretly recorded photos and videos and blackmail
the girl (Kumar and Tiwari, 2015). In this situation, they do not talk to their parents cause of fear
and take wrong decisions like hurting own-self and suicide etc. So it is very important
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requirement to the government to develop new legislations so that they can make control on
these kind of activities which affect the society in negative manners and ways.
Cyber bulling is a great danger for the society It harm the people and the outcomes are
negative for both as well as bully and victim. Cyberbullying is not only doing by using social
media, internet and online but also by gaming (Lazhintseva and Bochaver, 2015). For example,
“Blue-whale” was a game which encourage people for suicide. So it is necessary and required for
the government of various nations that they develop and formulate several new legislations to
resolve these kin d of problems.
As cyberbullying is a crime due to which government has taken various measures to
action against it in order to control cyber crime. There are several types of cyber crime such as
texting inappropriate messages, blackmailing, using other identify to fake other person and so on.
Thus, this may lead to imprisonment as well as imposition of high fines. Thus, the government
has introduced various laws such as Protection from harassment act 1997, Communication Act
2003 and Criminal Justice and public order Act 1994 which protect the interest of people against
the cases of cyberbullying are:
CONCLUSION
From the above information it can be analysed that cyberbullying is a big issues for the
society as well as people who belong from it because it harm it negative manner through
different ways. So there are high need and requirement to the government to develop new laws
and regulations to make control on cyberbullying activities such as blackmailing, sending vulgar
message, posting pictures and videos etc.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
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Garaigordobil, M. and et. al., 2015. Bullying y cyberbulling: diferencias entre colegios públicos-
privados y religiosos-laicos. Pensamiento Psicológico. 13(1). pp.39-52.
Kumar, A. and Tiwari, P. S. N., 2015. ICT as a source of Adolescents stress. IAHRW
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Cyber Bullying. 2019. [Online]. Available Through: <https://thelogicalindian.com/good-to-
know/government-awareness/report-cyber-bullying/>.
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