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The Rise of Cyber Bullying
santos_douglas writes "The Detroit Free Press has an article detailing the problems schoolchildren now face in the form of online cyber bullying. As if parents didn't already have enough to worry about! Examples include rumor spreading typically via text messaging, threatening emails, invasive pictures taken with camera phones, and the most extreme - creating entire websites to criticize/threaten/harass another student. The article suggests many tips for combating the problem - chief among them being the establishment of specific school policies. I suppose this is another example of an inevitable downside to the interconnected world. Mandatory Google search for your added reading pleasure."
...same links and all. Sorry about the off topic-ness, but this sort of thing gets to me.
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...and when it does make it in front of a judge, you might get Judge Snyder from the Simpsons calling for a writ of "Boys will be boys". I wonder how many cases involving children get that kind of response...
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