Law Enforcement and Social Media: Cyberbullying, Free Speech and Law

This essay examines the critical intersection of law enforcement and social media, focusing on the pressing issue of cyberbullying. The essay analyzes how cyberbullying, often facilitated by internet and social media platforms, poses significant challenges to law enforcement due to the anonymity and global reach of the internet. It highlights the legal complexities and ethical considerations associated with online harassment, including the balance between protecting individuals from online threats and upholding freedom of speech. The essay references the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and discusses a case in Washington State where a law aimed at curbing cyberbullying was criticized for potentially hindering legitimate criticism of government officials. The paper emphasizes the need for modern, multi-layered solutions to address online harassment while preserving fundamental rights, and highlights the ongoing debate about how to mitigate the negative impacts of the digital age. The author provides a bibliography of relevant sources including EFF publications and Washington State legal documents.

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Washington State Tries to Crack Down on Cyber Bullying – But Routine Criticism Is
Blocked Instead
The one crime that has been discussed in the https://www.eff.org/ is ‘Cyber Bullying’ or
“Cyber Stalking’. The social media that has been used for the crime of cyber bullying is the
internet and other medium through the use of internet. This type of crimes happen when an
individual or a group of people with perverted or anti-social minds utilize the most beautiful and
helpful technological innovations in the world.
The threat of online provocation can drive many individuals off from communicating
their feelings on the web. It's an issue that calls for modern, multi-layered arrangements. In any
case, a law in Washington State is showing how some ways to deal with the issue can turn out
badly, conceivably hindering the normal feedback of government officials and others that is an
indispensable piece of a working majority rules system. EFF and the American Civil Liberties
Union of Washington have recorded an amicus brief in another government lawful argument
against this law, encouraging the judge to perceive the basic protected inquiries it raises
(Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2017).
In the almost 25 years that EFF has been safeguarding computerized rights, our faith in
the guarantee of the Internet has just become more grounded. The advanced world liberates
clients from many points of confinement on correspondence and imagination that exist in the
disconnected world. In any case, it is additionally a domain that mirrors the issues in more
extensive society and awards them new measurements (Facing the Challenge of Online
Harassment, 2017).

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Online provocation is an advanced rights issue. Even from a pessimistic standpoint, it
makes genuine and enduring damages its objectives, a reality that must be integral to any talk of
provocation. Shockingly, it is difficult to make laws or approaches that will address those
damages without welcoming government or corporate restriction and attacks of protection—
including the security and free discourse of focuses of badgering. However, as we talk about
underneath, there are approaches to make compelling reactions, established in the center beliefs
whereupon the Internet was worked, to ensure the objectives of provocation and their rights
(Cyber stalking, 2017).
This post clarifies our reasoning about fighting on the web provocation, and what we
trust EFF's part can be in that exertion given the extent of our work. It isn't our last word, nor
should it be; this is not a basic issue. Rather, we need to plot a portion of the things that we
consider when taking a gander at the issue and portray out a few components for powerful
reactions to it (Washington State Tries to Crack Down on Cyber bullying, 2017).
Since EFF was established in 1990, individuals around the globe have met up to assemble
an astounding arrangement of instruments that take into consideration more correspondence by a
larger number of individuals than at whatever other time ever. The advantages of this
computerized unrest are colossal we're still simply touching the most superficial layer. We're
likewise just start to see how to alleviate its drawbacks. On the off chance that the points of
online harassers are to hush and detach their objectives, we think the best resistance is to protect
the very rights that let us advance, cooperate, and talk up against mishandle on the web.

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Bibliography:
Electronic Frontier Foundation. (2017). Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 23 August
2017, from https://www.eff.org/
Facing the Challenge of Online Harassment. (2017). Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved
23 August 2017, from https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/facing-challenge-online-
harassment
RCW 9.61.260: Cyberstalking.. (2017). App.leg.wa.gov. Retrieved 23 August 2017, from
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.61.260
Washington State Tries to Crack Down on Cyberbullying — But Routine Criticism Is Blocked
Instead. (2017). Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 23 August 2017, from
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/washington-state-tries-crack-down-cyberbullying-
routine-criticism-blocked-instead