"Cyberbulling"?
This morning at the laundry mat, I picked up a copy of Awake!, a weekly publication put out by the Jehovah Witnesses. I found the article below, in a section called “Watching the World.” I include it here, because I believe it helps illustrate some of the negative uses of today’s technology to hurt people and spread the negative gospel preached in the virtual Ethernet of our world.
While having coffee with a friend of mine last weekend, we were discussing a local news/political blog site. My friend was supportive of the blog posters who actually used their own names – especially when attacking the school and government officials. He might totally disagree with them, but at least they are willing to sign their names at the bottom of their comments. The other side to his comment is that these blog posters use more than one post name – depending on how negative they want to be. In other words, when there might actually be some grains of truth in the posts, they will sign their actual names to the posts. Otherwise, they use a nickname.
Below is an article that discusses some of the Internet bullying that goes on:
Cell phones and the Internet are social lifelines for many young people. "They cal also be their social death," says Canada’s MacLean’s magazine, since "cyber bullies" can use E-mail, instant messaging, and cell-phone text messaging to torment victims. "A quarter of young Canadian Internet users report having received material that said hateful things about others," says MacLean’s. Such electronic bullying has moved police to issue reminders that written death threats are a crime. MacLean’s advises parents to talk to their children about the people and places they visit on-line and to put computers in an open area of the home where it is easy to monitor what children are reading and sending. The report warns children never to respond to a bully's message and never to "give out their long-in codes or passwords to others, even their best buddies," in order to prevent their private information from being passed on to others.
8 comments:
Isn't this exactly what this anti-education group from Hudson did with their terroristic threats to Devin Willi?
I would agree, in a low-tech way. The Willi letter is more like snail-mail bullying, but it is much more open to the public.
By the way, the Hardy boys on OTBL keep teasing us with their CSI investigation of the letter and promise suprising results. We are waiting.
Another thought I have on the OTBL'ers approach to this letter is the fact that they are boasting that they will solve the mystery before the Star-Observer. As a former weekly newspaper report, my guess and experience is that absolutely no one at the HSO is trying to solve this crime. That is the job of the police department.
Maybe in your collectivist psycho dream world, Police solve crimes Mustard man. But in this Red corner of Stone Pine we let the free market take care of such things. That'd b y Newpapers exist, ya know! That's why Ronald Reagan passed the 1st Amendment.
I love it....you got em' Dratsum...they're coming. They boast many things on OTBL however they always say it's coming soon or stay tuned...how many times has Bill Danileson stated this? I believe at election time he was going to prove that the school illegally let students out and this turned the election. His word is losing credibility. He never follows through just talks.
Time to get serious !!
We know the OTBLers a just what this post talks about Bullies, Cyber and real-life.
Here's something I found that sums them up in a nutshell.
"Criticisms and allegations are a projection of the bully's own weaknesses, shortcomings, failings and incompetence; every criticism or allegation is an admission by the bully of their misdeeds and wrongdoing, something they have said or done - or failed to do."
Need anyone say more?
After I made my initial response to the threat letter/cyber-bully observation, I realized I needed to add something.
I believe in the concept of "innocent until proven guilty." I don't know who sent that letter. It's possible it came from any number of sources. Sources that may have no connection to OTBL members. I thought it was interesting that one of the OTBL'ers was suggesting I might have sent that letter. In case they didn't notice, my letters are signed and dropped off at the HSO.
Mustard, I would agree with you...no telling who sent the letter. It's funny to me however how they jump immediately to someone such as yourself or someone that wants to demonize them instead of just playing on "higher" ground and letting the facts take care of themselves. They are a very defensive group.
I don't know you guys, that Willi letter? I don't think anybody from OTBL would be dumb enough to send such a thing.That letter totally incriminated a select few without saying any names! I do have it on a very good source (HPD friend) that Danileson has some merit in that investigation, that's why they sent it on, the HPD didn't want to deal with incriminating one of thier own city employees.
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