1. Cyber Bullying
By
Abhishek Desai
DIGICorp Information Systems
2. What is it?
"Cyberbullying involves the use of information
and communication technologies such as e-
mail, cell phone and pager text messages,
instant messaging, defamatory personal Web
sites, and defamatory online personal polling
Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated,
and hostile behaviour by an individual or
group, that is intended to harm others." - Bill
Belsey
3. What forms does cyber
bullying take?
Email
SMS
MMS
IM (Instant Messaging)
Blogs
Personal websites
Personal polling sites
4. Cyber bullying and Law
Cyber bullying is a CRIMINAL ACT
It is a CRIME to communicate repeatedly with
someone if it causes them to fear for their own
safety or safety of others
It is also a crime to publish “defamatory libel” –
writing something which is intended to insult
someone
It violates the human rights act.
Personally I believe it is an act of “COWARDICE”
5. What can be done?
Awareness and education
www.cyberbullying.ca
You should never send message to others
when you are angry
You should never open a message from
someone you don’t know
6. What can be done? Contd ..
If you encounter something on internet which
doesn’t feel right don’t open it
You don’t have to be always on the internet
Schools should update the Internet and
computer access policies as soon as possible
7. If you are a victim…
DO NOT keep it to yourself, You are not
ALONE.
Inform an ADULT you know and trust.
Inform you Internet Service Provider or
Mobile service provider
Inform your LOCAL POLICE
Do not reply to message from cyber bullies
Do not erase or delete the message from
cyber bullies
8. What kind of information can
be saved?
Save following from the email
E-mail address
Date and time received
Copies of relevant emails with full email headers
Save following from chat room
Date and time of chat
Name and URL of the chat room
Nickname of the offending person
Email address if available
Screenshot of chat room
9. Report Cyber bullying Email
Report cyber bullying email to your ISPs.
Emails can be traced easily using different
available software
If somebody has stolen your account contact
support team of that mail site.
10. Report chat room cyber
bullying
Highlight the chatter’s name
Use the ignore button to stop all
conversations
Take a screen shot of the abuse
Note the time and date of the chat
Report to chat room operator or service
operator
Speak to parent or a teacher
11. Its not your fault
You should know that it is not your fault if bad
people are there in the world
You should not be ashamed of telling it to
adults or teachers
People are not anonymous on the internet.
With the right information they can be easily
traced and punished by local police or
authorities.
12. Protect yourself
Never arrange a meeting with someone you
don’t know
If you have to, go with your parents.
You may need to delete your current email
accounts, cell phone etc and setup a news
ones.
13. Examples of cyber-bullying
One example of cyber-bullying was the Star Wars kid whose
classmates uploaded video footage of him posing as the Star
Wars character Darth Maul onto Kazaa in 2003. The footage was
downloaded extensively and modified causing the subject
extensive embarrassment resulting in psychiatric treatment.
13 year old Vermont boy Ryan Halligan committed suicide, as a
result of cyber-bullying:
"Ryan Halligan hanged himself after prolonged bullying at school
and at home through the Internet. He was repeatedly taunted
online. Due to the continued bullying, Ryan latched on to the idea
of killing himself as vengeance against those who had hurt him."
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