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Here are two videos that give some insight into what cyber-bullying is: media type="file" key="Notebook- Cyber Bullying (CBS News).m4v" Katie Couric's Notebook From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6Vxc4cB2w

media type="file" key="cyberbullyingadcouncil.mov" AdCouncil's Cyber-Bullying Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w

It is very easy for someone to be involved in cyber-bullying because bullies typically intimidate others where it is difficult for adults to notice. People cyber-bully other people via text messaging, instant messaging, emails, YouTube videos, and any other means that involve using technology to emotionally hurt someone else.

Litigation Involving Cyber-Bullying
[|Megan Meier] was bullied by a boy named "Josh," who said just the day before she committed suicide, "[|The world would be a better place without you.]" This case shows that it is not just students who are guilty of cyber-bullying, but also adults, as "Josh" was really 49 year-old Lori Drew, the mother of a former friend of the 13 year-old Megan Meier. Drew was convicted on November 27th, 2008, on three counts of computer fraud for creating a false identity. They court shied away from pursuing harsher charges.

//Layshack v. Hermitage Area School District//, No. 074465. Case is on appeal with the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals where a student created a fake MySpace page and made rude remarks about his principal. The student was suspended for 10 days.

//Waters v. Miller//, No. 2006-CA-2690-SC (Sarasota Cty., Fla. Cir Ct.). Teacher sued a student for posting inappropriate sexual remarks and the teacher's picture on a Web site, teacher was awarded $1,000.

//Dwyer v. OceanPort School District// No. 03-6005 (D. N.J.). School District in New Jersey has to pay $117,000 in damages to a kid they suspended for a Web site that he created outside of school. Court ruled it was a violation of his First Ammendment rights.

Wisniewski v. B. of E of the Weedsport Central School District. 8th grade student's AOL buddy icon on his parent's computer showed a drawing of a pistol and bullet being fired at a teacher’s head. He was suspended (and the court supported it) for the whole semester because of this drawing.

Ryan Halligan 2003

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