Poll: Cyberbullying

[AndyVale]

I think it depends. If it's just 4Chan style trolling from a stranger then that's not something to get bothered about. If it's just an argument that's spilled online then let it fizzle out. If it's something which does leak into your personal lives (like people at work starting hate groups about you and spreading personal details and pictures) then someone should step in.

Case by case basis, there is an element of 'Man Up' but if someone searches you online if they're hiring you and they find a massive hate group full of lies then that could affect your job prospects.

 

[zen5887]

The police/system justice is slow and inefficient.

The real justice is vigilante.
So start learning your ways of hacking into their accounts to later on ruin their reputation and get them banned from whatever site they are on.
Much more fun and rewarding than simply putting them on ignore list.

Also, I've heard of those two news. Purely tragic, yes...
But horrible people are horrible when they are given the power of anonymity.

The police can't do much anyhow. Not that they would investigate it.

So basically cyberbully them back. Sweet advice dude.

As a black-hearted Anon bred from the pits of 4Chan I have both experienced bullying and rAIDS. Neither are particularly nice and neither really affect me any more.


DISCLAIMER: I am about to sound a bit cruel here, so I advise you read the following twice before calling me heartless.
As for all the news stories we see of suicides and such by bullied individuals, I think it's best some didn't stick around to contribute to society because they wouldn't be able to handle the stress of it.

If you off yourself because you can't handle cyber-bullying by someone who doesn't have the gall to say shit to your face, I think humanity would be a tint better off without you.

You make people feel horrible and mess with their lives for fun and you say your victims don't deserve to live.

Holyfuckingshit...

 

[Caliostro]

If said cyber bullying involves theft of personal information, then yes, they should. But, as far as I know, that's already a crime...

If it's just "xXasdAXx IS BEING MEAN TO ME!! WHAAA!" then no. Grow up.

 

[tzimize]

I'm surprised 16 people have actually voted for the police to start doing something about this. Where are you people from? Crimeless-land? Is there anywhere in the world at all where the police have so little to do that they can actually care about Internet-bullying?

1: The Police in NO way have the resources to handle this
2: It should not be necessary to handle, its in line with receiving a letter from some random guy calling you a douche. Who cares?
3: For anyone to tilt over being called names over the Internet they are obviously already way over the edge. Its akin to blaming killing-sprees on games. The people are already lost, this is just the final unavoidable drop that tips them over, and that final drop might as well be stepping on a dog-turd on the sidewalk or something random like that. What should we do about that? Kill all dogs? Police dog-owners around the clock?

Cyber-bullying is not nice, but really? The police? Maybe parents could start being decent role-models and actually lay down some rules for their stupid, insensitive kids instead?

 

[Auric]

Ive never been cyberbullied myself, but i can see how it would be a problem.

Really, if i made a site called [Insertyournamehere]-is-a-twat.com, and started filling it with retarded, photoshopped pictures, random rumors, more crap, etc, and then invited all my facebook friends along to look at it and laugh as well. You can bet your ass that you would be pissed off, especially considering there would be nothing you could do about it.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I'm sure I've been 'bullied' much more online than a lot of people, and why am I not affected?

Oh yeah, because it's online.

Thankyou, you just summed up my opinion on this. If you honestly get depressed and such over someone trolling you over the internet, then you need to harden the fuck up.

Jesus Christ, I hate how much we coddle children nowadays. We're WEAKENING humanity, ffs.

Pretty much this. It's similar to the UK Conservative Party's plans to give teacher's more power to "punish homophobic bullying in schools", which is basically kids calling each other gay. It's an over-reaction and if someone gets really upset they just need to man the fuck up.

As for the police getting involved, only in extreme circumstances. We really don't need to waste the police's time and resources with this stuff, as it's generally local and between kids. That can be solved without police interference.

 

[The Last Hunter]

This whole problem originates from the fact that some people, mostly teens, exist solely for facebook/msn/twitter/next week's internet fad. So it's kind of expected that when somebody makes fun of them online, they tend to freak out and go emo on everyone.

Therefore the root problem lies not with cyber-bullying, but with the pussies who are actually affected by it

 

[Cody211282]

As a black-hearted Anon bred from the pits of 4Chan I have both experienced bullying and rAIDS. Neither are particularly nice and neither really affect me any more.


DISCLAIMER: I am about to sound a bit cruel here, so I advise you read the following twice before calling me heartless.
As for all the news stories we see of suicides and such by bullied individuals, I think it's best some didn't stick around to contribute to society because they wouldn't be able to handle the stress of it.

If you off yourself because you can't handle cyber-bullying by someone who doesn't have the gall to say shit to your face, I think humanity would be a tint better off without you.

I have to agree with you on that one. I mean for Christs sake its the friken internet people, if your feelings get hurt because someone on it doesn't like just turn off the computer and do something else it's not that damn hard.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Online you can block, or switch off. It's also be a pretty big waste of police resources when you consider how busy they already are.

 

[Cody211282]

As a black-hearted Anon bred from the pits of 4Chan I have both experienced bullying and rAIDS. Neither are particularly nice and neither really affect me any more.

rAIDS ?

When Anonymous decides to constantly fuck with you and everything you do.

This term is also used to refer to a site raid.

But how can they fuck with you if they don't have info on you, sure they can google your name but I doubt they will get the right person. I just tried it on myself, got 10 pages in and still couldn't find anything on me.

 

[Sneaklemming]

No I dont. Freedom of speech is better.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

The main problem with cyberbullying is that the younger generations are nothing but sissies.

Nowadays, schools, society in general, and sadly enough, the law, really crack down kids taunting each other. Not realizing, of course, that this sort of behavior is actually a necessity when growing up because it helps you develop thicker skin. People are more repressed now than ever, so when given an outlet to say whatever they feel like, they'll take full advantage of it.

And really, the internet is probably more friendly now than it has been in the past. In the mid 90s games didn't have word filters, or even ban lists. Chatrooms were super-popular, and got trolled even harder than most forums these days.

It's easy enough for people to avoid sites where they will be bullied. If for whatever reason they absolutely feel the need to have their personal information and pictures spread across 20 some various social networking sites then they should man the fuck up.

 

[zen5887]

Lrn2read. Where did he say he did the bullying? He said he experienced it. Anyone with a bit of reading comprehension would take that as meaning that he was the one getting messed with.

I've been on 4chan a lot, and don't tend to mess with others, but I get messed with myself at times.

Do you see me committing suicide? No? Do you see Tim committing suicide? No?

Why is that? Because we're not fucking idiots. If someone commits suicide over someone on an internet forum/site messing with them, then their genes didn't have the need to continue on in the gene pool, and they made their own idiotic and weak decision.

Alright, I misread. My bad.

But he (and you) still said that the victims deserve to die, which is pretty sick. In a few cases I remember hearing about, the kids are only 14 or 15 and for anyone to die that young is a tragedy, no matter for what reason.

 

[Cody211282]

Lrn2read. Where did he say he did the bullying? He said he experienced it. Anyone with a bit of reading comprehension would take that as meaning that he was the one getting messed with.

I've been on 4chan a lot, and don't tend to mess with others, but I get messed with myself at times.

Do you see me committing suicide? No? Do you see Tim committing suicide? No?

Why is that? Because we're not fucking idiots. If someone commits suicide over someone on an internet forum/site messing with them, then their genes didn't have the need to continue on in the gene pool, and they made their own idiotic and weak decision.

Alright, I misread. My bad.

But he (and you) still said that the victims deserve to die, which is pretty sick. In a few cases I remember hearing about, the kids are only 14 or 15 and for anyone to die that young is a tragedy, no matter for what reason.

Well the people who kill themselves over internet bullying are probably so unstable they would kill themselves if a dog looked at them funny, what they are trying to say is from a evolution standpoint their genes can't survive in this world and are being taken out because they are to weak to make it, not nice but it's how nature works.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

The only major flaw to cyber bullies is that their messages can be deleted, they can be blocked and you can't see them if you turn away from the computer or cellphone.

In short, it's only bad if the victim allows it to continue. They have the power to block the bullies and keep them out of their lives at home and if the Victim has the power to end it, why should the police get involved?

 

[Dexiro]

I have no sympathy at all for anyone that gets "cyber-bulled", it's just a severe case of some whiny kid taking the internet too seriously.

Unless the cyber-bullying breaches over into real life, such as death threats and blackmail (in which case it's a matter for the police) then i think people should stop crying.

You get people who commit suicide just because someone said "gay" as a comment to their youtube >.<

 

[Ninjaghostdog]

I'm sure I've been 'bullied' much more online than a lot of people, and why am I not affected?

Oh yeah, because it's online.

Thankyou, you just summed up my opinion on this. If you honestly get depressed and such over someone trolling you over the internet, then you need to harden the fuck up.

Jesus Christ, I hate how much we coddle children nowadays. We're WEAKENING humanity, ffs.

Also, mate, you don't need to make a new thread every two seconds.

I feel the same way my dad use to smack me for fucking around, now its so taboo.

Ohh and if your a offend by some on the internet typing '******' or 'shit *****' then guess what. YOU A PUSSY. Don't get me wrong bullying in real life is quite harsh , but on the internet who really cares.