Teen Sexting with Canada's New Cyber Bullying Law

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Teen Sexting with Canada's New Cyber Bullying Law
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1TEEN SEXTING WITH CANADA'S NEW CYBER BULLYING LAW
1. Introduction
This case study is based on the effect of the new form of cyberbullying law that would be
based on the effect of teen sexting. Teen sexting is considered to be a major form of offense that
could impact the individual rights of a person. The paper discusses that the digital images of
various bodies circulate within the online platform that supports gender inequalities. In this form
of cyberbullying activities, the feminine body is depicted within pornography. In the modern
times, the social media has made a major form of impact within the mindset of people where
they are free to participate in various kinds of activities (Temple et al., 2014). They can produce,
distribute or can even access different forms of properties. The paper discusses about the recent
form of illegal activities on the move that have rendered the law bodies to implement such forms
of laws that have been able to curb the effect of cyberbullying on the internet and social media
platforms.
2. Discussion
This report puts focus on an incident of child pornography and cyberbullying that had
taken place in Canada. The images of a person was forwarded to different other individuals in
order to seek vengeance. This was a violation of personal properties and had also brought a bad
name to the accused. As the news of this incident had spread on a global basis, the identity of the
girl was leaked. People in the society were even taunting her and had even called her to be a
pedophile and pornographer. The story of the girl was one of the number of growing cases on a
worldwide basis (Canada's New Cyberbullying Law Is Targeting Teen Sexting Gone Awry,
2018). This had scored tension among the pre-existent laws based on the prevention of child
exploitation and the new form of realities based on teen sexual exploitation.

2TEEN SEXTING WITH CANADA'S NEW CYBER BULLYING LAW
Based on the story of the incident of the exploitation of personal rights of the girl, the
lawsuits within Canada focused on the importance of cyberbullying laws. These would be
essential based on protecting the rights of the person based on the sharing of different things on
the social media platform and the Internet. Based on the new form of provision based the new
laws on anti- cyberbullying, it was made illegal to share different intimate images of a person
without their consent (Temple & Choi, 2014). In the year of 2009, it was seen that some of
young kids of the age group of 13 were facing the charges faced on child pornography. These
kinds of situations were primarily faced by these teens based on receiving and sending of texts
that contained naked photos, which was shared within the group of friends. In the previous years,
five teens were found to perform different activities based on sexting. They were mainly charged
based on possessing of illegal services and the distribution of child pornography. Based on the
review of such kinds of activities, it was found that Australia was one of the many countries in
which the police had laid different charges based on child pornography. Since the past few years,
the state of Victoria had proposed a new law that had made it to be illegal based on the sharing of
sexually explicit forms of images without their consent. The Victorian law would also would
also be able to prevent someone under the age group of 18 from getting convicted based on child
pornography within cases of sexting (Baumgartner et al., 2014).
The law within Canada would recognize the constitution freedom of people based on
protecting their freedom based on expression and their rights to engage within a narrow subset of
expressive practices. Numerous campaigns based on anti-sexting would criticize the possibility
of safe texting (Ringrose et al., 2013). Based on the review on the article based on intruding of
personal properties, the different laws implemented by different bodies have been focused upon.
In the recent times, the social media is the most powerful platform where both men and women