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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.
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All these stories of geeks being bullied in high school via the internet is rather pathetic.
The idea that someone is traumatized by not being able to visit facebook properly and they get bad texts makes you seem so soft that I don't know when to begin.
Bullying is when you fear for your safety. When the big kid(s) push you against a wall and threaten to beat your sorry ass. Although a soft geek may be loathe to admit it, there's a lot to be said for growing a set of balls and physically confronting someone.
Might as well confront the person sending you bad messages because if they were actually tough kids, they would threaten you with a beat-down to your face.
But I fear most of you are so spineless that you won't even get it. Bullying is something that is as old as man (and even older). Primates establish a pecking order. If you're being picked on, you get in the other person's face, even at the risk of taking a beatdown yourself. Fear is far worse than the reality of getting punched in the face. Although like I said, the idea that someone who is into sending you "bad" messages could deliver a beatdown is pretty small.
Learning self-defense skills is vitally important in this world. Always was, always will be.
JockTroll, this is the first legitimate advice you have given, that I can remember.
To all of you people who want to "take the high road" and not "risk punishment", well, you're wrong. If you do it right, out of the eyes of the pussy teachers who would seek to punish YOU, then you are safe. The bully who just lost face isn't going to "tell". And if they do, well, at age fourteen or whatever, the potential punishment is far outweighed by the lack of psychological and physical scars you will still probably still carry twenty years down the road.
Once a victim, always a victim, until you BREAK that victimhood. Kudos, JockTroll. You have just graduated from lawn sprinkler to mentor.
Soo true. You only need to overhear a 'private' conversation between two company directors to see how utterly lacking they are in the type of wisdom needed by someone in such a position of power.
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