In your view, should the harasser in your selected case be held accountable for the victims suicide?
The answer to this question is difficult as each case provided in the, Cyber Bullied to Death: An analysis of victims taken from recent events article is different. With the cases of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons, yes, the harassers should be held accountable. In the case of Parsons, the accusers actually raped her, and made a false narrative to allow people to believe she was a slut or sexually promiscuous. Likewise, the boys took inappropriate pictures during the rape and disseminated them throughout the school and internet. This created a cascade of events that eventually led to the suicided of Parsons. Here, she was constantly bombarded by men online with requests for sexual acts. She was shamed throughout the school and ridiculed by her peers. Even more alarming, when law enforcement was involved they were initially unable to convict the four boys of their act. I wasnt until after Parsons death that the perpetrators where convicted. Due to this, Parsons death could have been prevented if these boys first didnt engage in the act and law enforcement acted promptly to allegations. In addition, Amanda Todd also wen through a very similar situation. Here Todd made the mistake of should her chest to a man over the internet when she was in the 7th grade. The man then escalated the situation by asking her to put on a show for him. Amanda Todd refused...
Todd and her family attempted to move to sperate locations on three separate occasions. However, the harassment ultimately followed her each time. This resulting in her taking bleach on one occasion and then successfully committing
suicide at a latter attempt (Pendergrass, 2014).
In both of these instances the harasser should be held accountable as their actions can be directly linked to...
…respect and decorum within online channels, particularly
social media and gaming. I never engage in any discourse that is racial or heavily biased. I instead simply avoid it and look to much more productive channels of
communication with peers and friends. My policy to help mitigate the influence of cyber
bullying is simply education, particularly for young women. First, when cyber bullying occurs it is important to report any and all instances. The benefit of cyberbullying is that the evidence can be easily saved and retrieved. It is important, from a policy perspective to promptly report cyberbullying when it occurs. Likewise, as indicated in the case above, it is important for individuals to simply reframe from using the channel in which the bullying is occurring. This will include deactivating accounts, completely deleting accounts, and heavily reducing usage. Finally, to combat cyberbullying it is important to have friends outside of the internet. Here, is important to simply engage with in-person activities (Florida Atlantic…
