Monthly Archives: February 2012

Feb
28
2012

The Government of Singapore has decided to conduct an exercise in which it will be enabling public consultation making it a part of the review by inter-ministry of cyberbullying related laws.
It is expected that the review will shape out a final image by the end of the ongoing year as the statement was passed by the joint action of three ministries which includes the Ministry of Information, the Law Ministry as well as the Home Affairs Ministry.
The law is basically evolved around two major aspects – to gain approach to cases related to cyberbullying and cyber harassment and the other being to educate the Internet community to compliance with the code of conduct.

 
Feb
24
2012

The State laws are releasing ways through which cyberbullying practices can be avoided and some of these practices are as follows:
• Create your own e-mail as well as user accounts of social media websites.
• Talk to your kids about their use of this technology.
• Discuss issues related to cyberbullying with your kids.
• Avoid keeping secret passwords with your family members.
• Monitor as well as filter applications.
• Make use of various applications available to view your kid’s online activities.
• Do not permit them to share their passwords with their friends.
• Allow restricted time for using the Internet technology.

 
Feb
18
2012

A case related to the act of committing suicide on the very day when a 13 year old boy Ryan was intensely being cyberbullied at school. The story has been narrated by his father, John Halligan.
He told to the audience of Portsmouth High School that his cyberbullying affected son left no suicide note but they had a family tradition of carrying shared passwords. Through this way he came out to know that there was a particular girl in school who pretended to be in love with him and when Ryan approached her at school she humiliated him and rejected his proposal. Moreover, depressed from such emotional cyberbullying experience, he sought help from his friends to search websites offering ways to commit suicide who also recommended that it was about time.

 
Feb
13
2012

The Quinte secondary school located in Belleville have taken a step forward to create awareness about cyberbullying practices. The principal has decided to start up a crash course in which the students will be made aware of their actions as well as behavior they adopt online and which have an impact on other people of the same community.

The crash course will also include some real world cases related to cyberbullying along with their effects on kids. The main purpose is to create an environment of awareness among kids who are both aggressors as well as victims of this practice. It will provide moral education as well as online etiquettes so as to promote a bullying free environment on the Internet.