Sunday, June 10, 2012

Cyberbullies revealed

After a recent court case in Britain has ended with the victim of cyberbullies knowing exactly who targeted her through Facebook.
An article on technorati.com by Adi Gaskell detailed the story of a girl who was harassed online and decided to go to court and the ruling was that Facebook had to give up the names and other identification information of the four people that targeted Nicola Brookes and Brookes now intends to prosecute each of them.
This article and court case opens a new door to cyberbullying because now that one case has ruled that the identification of cyberbullies had to be revealed many more people could take their cyberbullying cases to court hoping for similar verdicts. 
I think that in the long run this could help control cyberbullying if there is the threat that the cyberbullies identity could be revealed.
The article can be found here

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