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Cyber Bullying
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does research suggest? | That cyberbullying is the most significant danger young people face online. |
| What does cyberbullying involve? | The use of technology to hurt intimidate others, their reputation or their relationships. |
| What are some uses of technology that cyberbullying can involve? | Social networking websites and applications, text messaging, instant messaging, smart phones, webcams, YouTube, chat rooms and email. |
| What are some examples of cyberbullying that are not limited to? | Sending hurtful messages, creating mean and hurtful web pages or blog sites, posting rude, embarrassing, private and intimate, or demeaning digitally manipulated photographs or videos about someone to a public space. |
| What does cyberbullying differ from? | Traditional bullying in that does not happen in face-to-face interactions. |
| Where does cyberbullying occur? | In a 'public domain', which means that negative text or images can be seen and shared extensively and repeatedly and can be difficult for the victim to dispose of completely or permanently. |
| When can cyberbullying take place? | Both school and at home, at any time of day or night, so for a victimized child there is often no escape. |
| Oftenly for a victimized child, how come there is "no escape"? | Because cyberbullying can take place at school or home, at any time of day or night (24/7). |
| In cyberbullying, the person bullying does not necessarily have to be_____? | The older, stronger, bigger, more popular student (although sometimes these dynamics are still in place), but rather any student could adopt the power of a 'bully' persona. |
| Rather any student could adopt the power of, what? | Of a 'bully 'persona. |
| When the individual may have fewer inhibitions, what's the result ? | Of not having to face the other person or the bully that may even remain anonymous. |
| Some forms of cyberbullying are considered as...? | As criminal acts. |
| What is harassing communication? | To repeatedly communicate with the intent to harass them. |
| What are uttering threats? | Threatening someone with death, bodily harm, destruction of their property, or a harm to a pet is also a crime. |
| What is indecent communication? | To send an indecent communication with intent to alarm or annoy a person. |
| Under the Criminal Code of Canada, what is it a crime to do? | To communicate repeatedly to someone if your communication causes them to fear for their own safety or someone known to them. |
| What is defamatory libel? | A crime to publish writing something about someone that is designed to insult the person or is likely to hurt that person's reputation by exposing him/her to hatred, contempt or ridicule. |
| To the defamatory libel rule, if the content of the publication is fake, the penalty is_______? | Higher. |