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Oh you guys are fucked now.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_hi_te/cyberbullying_1
Highlights
Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies.
In 2003, Ryan killed himself.
"The kids are forcing our hands to do something legislatively," said Rhode Island state Sen. John Tassoni, who introduced a bill to study cyberbullying and hopes to pass a cyberbullying law by late 2007.
"I didn't simply want it to be Ryan's school that agreed to do something," he said. "At the end of the day this wasn't just a problem in Ryan's school."
Highlights
Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies.
In 2003, Ryan killed himself.
"The kids are forcing our hands to do something legislatively," said Rhode Island state Sen. John Tassoni, who introduced a bill to study cyberbullying and hopes to pass a cyberbullying law by late 2007.
"I didn't simply want it to be Ryan's school that agreed to do something," he said. "At the end of the day this wasn't just a problem in Ryan's school."
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What can they do to a forum that is in no way connected to a school district. This kid was owned by bullies via AIM, not SE++.
I mean seriously. They talk big shit about passing Internet laws but they don't know where to start. I don't know where to start.
STEAM!
Edit: Also, how the fuck can you regulate something as fucking trivial as Internet Bullying? Seriously. Maybe that kid just had problems? Blame his fucking parents for not noticing, not putting him in counceling, etc.
Maybe he stabbed but they counterstabbed.
Zing.
Well at least there isn't a law calling him gay just yet.
Gay it on up!!
i remember in like my first year of high school we had a year meeting thing to address bullying because one kid said some shit to another on icq and that kids dad printed it out and showed it to the principal or something
and then everyone thought that the kid being bullied was cool
STEAM!
Oh God, just shut the fuck up right now.
FUCK ALL Y'ALL
YOU GUYS ARE SO GAY
YOU LIKE PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX
I BET YOU ARE ALL NERDS
With senseless violence!
Cyberbullying.
Fun to say. Sounds like something out of a cheesey, low-budget sci-fi flick.
CYBERBULLYING.
Thaox... If you're going to hate mindlessly please do it with correct spelling... and maybe some creativity.
This is like the perfect topic for him
HEY.
WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SAY?
when the tape was played on tv he shot himself
my sister kept his cd player
You mean, just like that? With proper spelling of the word Thorax and the most creative method of torment ever: POST EDITING?
Was there a CD still in it?
That would've made my day.
Where to begin...
Now we know.
Someone with a Final Fantasy name yelling in all caps at someone with a Final Fantasy avatar.
You can taste the worthlessness.
it will be approx. 6 hours long
Fixed that for ya.
It will be glorious.