Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying

An anonymous reader points out a story on the Irish Times that says "the Irish government is looking for ways to combat 'cyber-bullying' after data indicated that a significant percentage of young children are subjected to this kind of abuse via their mobile phone and popular social network accounts. The industry has been asked to come up with solutions for this problem and a government office is due to publish a guide on the issue in the near future. Surely this is a problem faced by children in all developed countries these days." Add "for the children" to the list of reasons to track the Web-site habits of mobile web users in Ireland.

Comments

Marketing Just plain bullying

[Anonymous Coward]

Various organisations have been sensationalising this issue by prefixing cyber and pretending it's a new issue.

Paradigm shift. Next maybe comes eBullying, iBullying, meta-bullying, cloud-bullying,,,,,? Kind of like patenting thousands of years old business practices done on a computer.

TattleText(TM)

[EdIII]

Well since filtering and heuristic analysis is probably impossible, I suggest TattleText(TM). The poor child can simply forward the offending text to a central authority. The central authority can then call the bully's mom.

Problem Solved.

I used to be bullied

[Anonymous Coward]

It stopped when I was legally able to drive. Nothing concentrates the mind of someone who beat you up in the playground as much as seeing you accelerate towards them and swerve away at the last second later in the day.

with an iron fist

[teazen]

Ah... my shoddy mastery of the English language made me read the headline as 'Irish government seeks to reign in cyber bullying', which to me seems to be a much more attainable goal.