Stop Cyberbullies

Social networking sites and blogs have increasingly evolved into breeding grounds for anonymous online groups which attack women, people of color, and people of other typically disadvantaged groups. These destructive groups target individuals with defamation, threats of violence, and technology-based attacks that silence victims and ruin their privacy. Victims go offline or assume pseudonyms to avoid future assaults, depriving victims of the social and commercial opportunities associated with a internet. Attackers manipulate search engines to duplicate their lies and threats for employers and clients to view, creating digital scarlet letters that damage reputations.

Cyber Bullying

Today's cyber assault groups up-date a history of anonymous mobs joining together to victimize and subjugate vulnerable individuals. Unfortunately, Web 2.0 technology increase mob behavior. With zero expectation of self-correction of the intimidation of sensitive and vulnerable people, legislation should take action.

General criminal laws and tort law proscribe a lot of the mobs dangerous behavior, however the harm they cause also ought to be fully understood and resolved as civil rights violations. Civil rights suits reach the societal damage that would otherwise go unaddressed. Working in opposition to such assaults does not go against First Amendment principles if they incorporate defamation, genuine dangers, deliberate infliction of psychological hardship, technical sabotage, and bias-motivated exploitation designed to affect a victim's occupations. In fact, it will help maintain lively internet discussion and promote a culture of political, social, and economic equality.

Cyberstalking is identified as threatening actions or unwelcome advances online along with other kinds of web computer communications. There are three standard types of stalkers. They usually are simple obsessional stalkers, delusional stalkers and vengeful stalkers. There is frequent overlap of these simple definitions.

A simple obsessional stalker is anything but simple. They are typically the person who will not believe that a relationship has ended, even though they have been told repeatedly that it is. Try not to be fooled by this kind and consider they are harmlessly in love. Quite a few were psychologically abusive and controlling in the relationship and many even have a criminal background unrelated to stalking. This is the most typical form of stalker.

Another kind is the delusional stalker, they generally have not had any kind of contact with their victim past the boundaries of their own thoughts. They may have problems with mental illness like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or erotomania. What they have in common is a false perception that keeps them linked with their victims. In erotomania they think that the target loves them, despite the fact that they have never met. Another type of delusional stalker might believe that he and the victim are destined to be with each other and even though they may not have met if he only just shows just how much he adores her then she's going to love him and they're going to be with each other as it is meant to be. A good example of this type of stalker is John Hinckley Jr. that shot President Reagan in order to show Jody Foster just how much he loved her.

A delusional stalker is normally a loner, unmarried, socially immature and will not possess the social skills to keep up friendships and relationships. They have had few if any sexual encounters. They usually select victims that are unobtainable being a movie star or a married woman, their doctor, teacher, nurse or therapist. Those helping occupations are in danger of attracting a delusional stalker. Delusional stalkers are extremely challenging to eliminate and many continue for many years fixated on a single particular person.

The last type of stalker is the vengeful stalker. These people get furious at their victim due to some slight either actual or imagined. Often disgruntled employees, these vengeful stalkers can be equally as serious as the delusional. They stalk to get even and feel that "they" have been victimized. Ex-spouses can turn into this type of stalker and physical violence is all too frequent an outcome.

Cyberbullying

Published August 26th, 2011

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