On sept.28 police arrested two Rutgers University students, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei on invasion of privacy charges. According to the police report Ravi activated a webcam in the dorm room the Ravi and 18 year old Tyler Clementi shared on sept. 19. Images of Clementi another streamed live on the internet. Clementi soon found out about it. New Jersey privacy law makes it a crime to transmit or view nude images or sex acts of someone without that person’s approval.
Connectsafety co-director Anne Collier pointed out that this story is not about technology, but inhumanity. But the fact that technology was involved does change the equation somewhat. When it comes down to bullying the internet can encourage what psychologists call disinhibition. For example people can make up a fake email address or facebook or myspace or instant message and bother you intill u can’t take it any more and go crazy because soem one wants to bother you and you didnt even do nothing to them. People can also stalk you and tell you information that you never told no one about. This happens to alot of people every day and that drives them to the edge so that may kill them self.
Such as defamation, impersonation, or just plain mean, cyberbullies can inflict mental anguish that can hurt worse than physical wounds because cyberattack can reach a vast audience and it can haunt the victim forever. It can follow children home from school and possibly for the rest of there lives. And it can affect the different people in different ways. Some people can deflect situations better then others. How they react depends on the host of factors the perpetrator often can’t possiblypredict. At least in a school yard brawl, a bully can see his or her victim suffer. Online bullies may never know how much suffering they’re inflicting intill something really bad happens..
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