Introducing New Legislation for Dealing with Cyberbullying

Assignment

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES........................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Cyberbullying is the bullying which takes through digital devices such as cell phones,
computers, tablets and so on. It can occur through online in social media, forums, gaming
where people can view, SMS, Text and so on. Although, it involve sharing, sending and
posting negative or false mean content related to someone else (Del Rey, Casas and Ortega,
2016). This assignment will going to evaluate the reason of introducing new legislation for
dealing with the problem of cyberbullying.
MAIN BODY
Cyberbullying Is the negative activity in which personal or private information related
to someone else shared which result in embarrassment or humiliation. Moreover, sometimes
it crosses the line into unlawful as well as criminal behaviour (Deslandes, 2018). There are
some common place where cyberbullying take place are mention below :-
 Social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on.
 Emails
 Instant messages through devices, apps, social media messaging features and so on.
 Short message service (SMS)
Government bodies of every nation have introduced laws and regulation against it.
Cyberbullying will be addressed within civil as well as criminal laws based on the situation
(Banakar, 2016). Explanation of these are as follows :-
 Civil law – it is the branch that deals with property rights, personal dignity as well as
freedom from injury. Within civil law there are three approaches of cyberbullying.
Thus, cyberbullying engaged in defamation it occurs when bully results in harm for
individuals reputation through spreading false information (Young and et.al., 2016).
Whereas, defamation which appears temporarily known as slander and if it is
permanent then called libel.
 Criminal law – There are three approaches of cyberbullying in criminal law are
harassment, defamatory libel and publishing intimate image without any consent.
All these laws and legislation help individual as well as entire society to coming out of
the situation of cyberbullying (Langos and et.al., 2018). This issue is divided within civil and