Adequacy of Current Cyber Bullying Laws in Criminal Code

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Re: Adequacy of Current Cyber Bullying Laws in Criminal Code
Dear Sir,
This submission has been prepared for your query for addressing the adequacy of the
Criminal Code in relation to the cyber-bullying and the adequacy of all the procedures, policies,
practices and any other matters adopted by the social media platforms that could be considered
as relevant in combating cyber-bullying especially among the teenagers and the children.
Providing adequate laws for combatting the cyber bullying is important for the Australian
Criminal Justice System. There have been multiple tragic deaths by suicide of students who have
been the victims of cyber-bullying all around the country in the recent years. Cyber bullying can
be defined as a type of bullying harassment that have occurs over any electronic means. Cyber
bullying has become very common among the teenagers and the children. Rights of cyber
bullying include coaching rumours, sexual remarks, threats, personal remarks of a person, hate
speech. Bullying is repeated behaviour with an intention for harm. Because of cyber bullying the
victims affected are seen to be experience low self esteem, increased suicide tendency and many
emotional responses which are negative that is seen to be including the emotion of being

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frustrated, angry, scared or depressed (Brewer, & Kerslake, 2015). There are multiple types of
cyber bullying. Of all the cyber bullying forms internet trolling can we say it is the most common
form of it present (Baldry, Farrington & Sorrentino, 2017). Another form of cyber bullying can
be said as cyberstalking in which person uses electronic communications to stock a person which
causes credible threat towards the victim. Although cyber bullying is similar in nature to normal
bullying there are some visible differences. In cyber bullying the victims of any don't know the
identification of the person bowling them or why they having targeted for being a victim. As in
cyber bullying the content used for harassment of the victim can be spread and shared easily
Among many people and is accessible for a long time that it can have a wide reaching effect on
the victim. The cyber bullies can also continue to harass someone by sending emails or text
messages or calls or by making public reactions like repeated threats, defamatory or false
accusations, sexual remarks online forums which would make the person a subject of ridicule to
everyone (Kowalski & Giumetti, 2017). The cyber bullies may further be seen to be disclosing
the personal data of the victim on any website or forum by way of impersonating the person for
creating fake accounts for commenting as their victim a for which the victim would be defamed,
discredited or ridiculed.
According to the Australian e-safety Commissioner one in every five children and one
in every ten adult has been experiencing cyberbullying for image-based abuse in average in a
year. According to the Commissioner new statistics show that high rise of child sexual abuse
material which include where children are increasingly caused by offenders to be creating
pornography themselves rather than through direct contact with an offender. The average age of
victims of cyber bullying is 14 years the girls are seen as being bullied more then the boys. As
per the statistics released by Australian government approximately one in every one in four