Cyberbullying, and its dire effects, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The leader of online networking, Facebook got into huge trouble last week, it was sued by a fourteen-year-old girl in Ireland. The young girl’s nude pictures was streamed again and again onto Facebook by her boyfriend who wanted to get revenge on her from 2014 to 2016, it’d been passed around, and around, and around but Facebook didn’t take the initiative, to get the photo taken down. Facebook wanted to settle with the teenager, but the girl refused, insisted on suing the company, and claimed, that for the year’s time, Facebook didn’t even CARE about the emotional distress she was under, and never set a standard set of rule on taking the nude photos down from online.
what this woman endured, was WAY worse than this here…not my photo…
Another shocking news, an Italian woman, Tiziana committed suicide at her own apartment, because the footages of her having sex with her ex-boyfriend kept getting posted and reposted, and reposted, she’d originally just sent the video footage to her ex-boyfriend and three other friends she knew, but, it’d gained her overnight fame, she’d gotten over millions of viewers, became, the laughing stock, and someone that everybody makes fun of.
Overnight, she’d gain nationwide fame, nto only did she lose her job, even after she’d changed her name, she was, still, tracked down. The cyberbullying of her using her nude photos made her upset and couldn’t find a place in the world for herself. And although, at the very end, the courts mandated that Facebook and the search engines must take down the footage, but the damaged reputation is, beyond repair, it’d caused her, to commit suicide.
Porn had been an ongoing problem sicne the beginning of times. Ever since the Internet got developed, “porn” had become, the highest visited websites, and it’s the most widely searched term on Google. What’s more worth noting was, the “revenge pornography” found on a lot of the porn sites are becoming more and more popular.
Based off of statistical measurements, revenge pornography targeted mostly women in the population. As John Carr, the senior consultant on the British Government’s online safety committee came to Taiwan for an interview, he’d once sighed to me, on how there’s no discriminations of the races anymore today, that the nude photos found online are always insulting the women in the populations; cultural and gender differences made the nude bodies taboo, which made the women an even easier target of this sort of cyberbullying. Especially as women cared more about the private matter of their photos of intimacies being leaked out, this sort of revenge-style pornography not only impacted the women’s psyche hard, at the most serious, the victims commit suicide over the matter, which was why Great Britain had already listed this sort of behaviors as “special crimes online”.
In 2010, there were, several revenge-style websites that popped up online, the most famous of all founders, is Hunter Moore, who was noted, the “most hated men in the U.S.” He’d set up the revenge porn site of IsAnyoneUp, so all the ex-boyfriends who felt cheated from the breakups are able to, post their ex-girlfriends’ sexually-illicit photographs online, and, a lot of the female victims were destroyed by this behavior completely. And because there are no precedence of the law, the F.B.I. couldn’t do a thing about what he’s doing, until last year, when they were finally able to, find him guilty, and the courts gave him two and a half years in prison.
There are thirty-four states that has laws set up against using porn to revenge. The main point being: so long as it’s a vengeful sort of pornography, it didn’t matter if when the two people were dating, and consents were given to take the nude photos, so long as the victims never agreed that it was okay to stream the footages online, then, it would be, against the law. Germany, France, England, and Canada had followed the precedence from the U.S., last year, Japan joined too.
In Taiwan, there are, many court cases involving the streaming of pornographic footages for the sake of revenge, there are the cases that the D.A. tossed out, because the footages weren’t taken without consent. And, some of the cases were sentenced based off of obstruction of secrets, and threats. But, a lot of the judges here are still, using the basic concepts of “pornography” and “sexually-illicit”, and there were those judges who’d believed, that the behaviors were, “destroying the goodness of the society altogether” too.
The revenge-style photos or video footages, not only intended to destroy the other person, it’d used technology, and destroyed an originally trusting soul, destroyed the normal trust in the dating realm. And, because these footages were often, sent to the family members, friends, and evne, bosses, it’d completely, destroyed ANY form of connection that the victims had, established with the social world. Tiziana’s death, wasn’t it caused, by how destroyed her social relationships with everybody she knew became?
Wehther or not it’s agreed upon by the legal realms, we should all, use more empathy, to understand this new concept. This, is a new discussion in the realms of how technologies can become an invasion of one’s own privacy!
So, because a woman committed suicide after her nude photos or video footages were streamed onto Facebook by her ex-boyfriend, she’d become the laughing stock of the world, and she just, couldn’t handle being under the spotlight (because it burned???), she’d killed herself, and now, laws are being set up, ALL over the world, to prevent this sort of cyberbullying from happening again, but, it will keep on happening, because we’re all in the hi-tech age, and, because we transmit everything online, there will be, more and more bad breakups that ended up like this, because when we’re in love, we all think it was, forever, but when it’s over, that, is when the revenge started happening…