Cyberbullying: Is Federal Criminal Legislation

Although the rise of social media has made a positive impact on its ability in communications between family’s & workers in different countries, yet it now has a negative use were it is being used to exacerbate bullying in high schools, university, and elementary schools. In CBC news report Cyberbullying-linked suicides rising and academic journal Cyberbullying: Is Federal Criminal Legislation the Solution? explains the consequences to cyberbullied victims and its solutions to this problem.
Each article has a claim, Cyberbullying: Is Federal Criminal Legislation the Solution? Illustrates on solutions for cyberbullying and whether or not Bill C-13 is useful in its prevention of cyberbullying. While for Cyberbullying-linked suicides rising exhibits …show more content…
Such as the recent cases of British Columbia teen, Amanda Todd, and Nova Scotia Jenna Bowers-Bryant. Both of these girls were 15-years of age had taken their own lives due to cyber bullying they received through social media networking sites. Amanda Todd’s death encouraged a “firestorm of international attention” and “prompted RCMP to investigate the contributing factors” to cyberbullying, this pushed MPs for a national anti-bullying strategy. Even though this investigation finally made known of the issues in cyberbullying, Cyberbullying: Is Federal Criminal Legislation the Solution? Argues that the amount of cost’s from the police investigations, prosecutions, and sanctioning of youth’s that are involved in cyberbullying “would be better placed in [early] prevention and intervention programs to reduce cyber bullying”. These programs involve lessons and teaching to youths on how to resolve social & interpersonal conflict in social media. Many of these programs try to encourage youths to disclose incidents of cyberbullying. Although this lessons may work for some, this article information lacks what Cyberbullying-linked suicides rising clearly demonstrates when it states that “bullying usually takes places out of the view of most adults (LeBlanc)”. …show more content…
To simplify this, many of the adults are unaware that this type of bullying is not the traditional bullying they would have experienced 20-30years ago. However, Cyberbullying: Is Federal Criminal Legislation the Solution? Can compete for this information fact by stating that “Canadian government Bill C-13” states that a person cannot harass an individual and the illegalization on posting or sending non-consensual intimate images. However, the act of sending or receiving these exhibiting these images required specific criteria for the situation to be considered illegal. So anyone could say that they did not consent for the image(s) to be sent to them which would make them innocent of charges. The majority of people have access to a computer, The internet, and the ability to own a cell phone, these items increase the amount of people who can access social media sites. Cyberbullying-linked suicides rising hints that although there is “no clear reason why the [suicide] cases appear to be growing” the “exposure and use of social media has increased”. Many youths today have easy access to social networking sites; from

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