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Internet Bullying

I Love Haters

Chastity Garner Valentine | Posted 05.06.2013 | Style
Read More: Plus Size Fashion, Plus Size Fashion Blogger, Internet Bullying, Cyberbullying, Beyonce, Haters, Plus-Size Fashion, Plus Size Fashion Blog, Style News
Chastity Garner Valentine

Recently, I was featured on Fashion Bomb. Now, I'm very aware of Fashion Bomb's readers and how they react to the plus size fashion bomb of the day. The audacity that a fat girl might love herself and try to show off in some cute outfits. But in the words of Beyonce: "I love haters."

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RIP Amanda Todd: Cult Favorite Singer/Songwriter Amanda Palmer Writes Post In Memory Of Bullied Teen

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 01.06.2013 | Teen
Read More: Anti-Bullying Laws, Online Bullying Amanda Palmer, Phoebe Prince, Internet Bullying, Amanda Palmer Blog Post, Amanda Palmer Kickstarter, Bullying, Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer Bullying, Cyber Bullying, Amanda Palmer Internet Hate, Celebrities Cyberbullying, Video, Teen News

Amanda Palmer's most recent crusade started with a simple Google search. The former Dresden Dolls frontwoman has amassed a massive social media fol...

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The Cold, Cruel Internet

Dori Hartley | Posted 01.22.2013 | Technology
Read More: Words That Hurt, Internet Free Speech, Internet, Online Personality, Human Cruelty, The Right to Scream Fire in a Crowded Theater, Free Speech, Internet Privacy, Internet Bullying, Video, Technology News
Dori Hartley

The Internet closed the window of the soul, and now we are disconnected from the best part of ourselves -- the love, the vulnerability, the grace and the reprieve.

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Veracity

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 05.05.2012 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Internet Bullying, Veracity in Art, Art Pranks, Pranks in Art, Cyber Bullying, Art World Pranks, Whintey Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Arts News
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

A sense of humor is a good thing in life and in art, but with the advent of the internet, the proliferation of misinformation and the spreading of sometimes damaging untruths has become rampant, redundant and sometimes dangerous.

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(Dis)connected: My Brother's Story

Rosalind Biggs | Posted 12.10.2011 | Impact
Read More: Online Bullying, Cyberbulling, Internet Bullying, Disconnected Cyber Bullying, Cyberbullying, Abraham-Briggs, Digital Abuse, School Bullying, Impact News
Rosalind Biggs

We've hidden behind the idea that "bullies will be bullies" or "they're just kids" for too long. Just because abuse takes place online does not mean that it's any less real, less harmful, or less fatal.

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The Commenterati's Tourette's Problem

Emily Bracken | Posted 11.21.2011 | Media
Read More: Cyberbullying, Internet Bullying, Commenters, Commentary, Commenterati, Internet Trolls, Online Commenters, First Amendment, Blog Commenters, Media News
Emily Bracken

The understatement of the century is that the Internet is fantastic in myriad ways. But because of the anonymity of the medium, it's also the Royal Flush port-a-potty for people's raging ids.

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Why Young People Think Racist And Sexist Slurs Online Are Just Jokes

AP | CONNIE CASS and JENNIFER AGIESTA | Posted 11.20.2011 | Home
Read More: Internet, Oakland University, Knowledge Networks, Online Slurs, Cyberbullying, Internet Bullying, Sexist Slurs, University of Texas, Young People Online, Teens Online, Facebook, Discriminatory Language, Racial Slurs, School Bullying, Derogatory Slurs, Home News

WASHINGTON — Young people immersed in the online world are encountering racist and sexist slurs and other name-calling that probably would appal...

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Cyber-Bullying: It's Not Cool To Be Cruel

Ronald Alexander, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Bullying, Cyber Bullying, Online Bullying, Teens Bullying, Teenagers Bullying, Internet Bullying, Parenting Bullying, Children Bullying, Healthy Living News
Ronald Alexander, Ph.D.

Why are we experiencing this almost epidemic of malicious behavior? One reason may be a lack of empathy and compassion, which are both a behavior and an attitude.

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FCC To Address Cyberbullying At Schools With Government-Subsidized Internet

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Protecting-Children-in-the-21st-Century-Act, Internet Bullying, Fcc, Cyberbullying, Bullying, Federal Communications Commission, School Bullying, Home News

In recent years, school bullying has increasingly gone online with more students using social media websites and other Internet tools to harass fellow...

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Internet Anonymity: Unleashing Our Inner Sociopath

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Internet Anonymity, Web Bullying, Cyber Bullying, Cyberbullying, Internet Bullying, Relationships, Healthy Living News
Diane Dimond

Has the internet made us more vicious? With our computer anonymity many of us have decided we can "say" things over the World Wide Web that we would never ever say to someone's face.

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Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers: Public Mockery on Aisle 9

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Gawker, People of Walmart, Cruelty, Freak Show, Internet Bullying, Humor, Wal-Mart, People of Wal-Mart, People of Wal Mart, Funny Pictures, Media News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Where do you draw the line between getting a harmless chuckle out of the strangeness of everyday life and cruelly poking fun of people who are, after all, just trying to buy some groceries?

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