A Vancouver MP wants to amend the Criminal Code to target children and teenagers who use mobile phones and the internet to bully others.
Now, the code makes harassment, libel and spreading false messages, criminal offences. However, "it isn't explicit that it applies to electronic messaging," Liberal MP Hedy Fry said on Thursday, following a news conference in Ottawa.
Fry said that clarification is important because the internet is now the biggest mode of communication that people have.
"If you put something out in cyberspace about somebody, not just the kids in the schoolyard know — the people in Germany will know, for crying out loud," she said in an interview. "And what is bad is, it's never erased, it can stay there forever."
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super cybermentor ambassador!
Since 2005,
Ken, better known as Mr Ken in the ring, has been at the forefront of WWE
winning numerous Smakcdowns and SummerSlams to name but a few.
Mr Ken
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experience that bullying is not cool, so if you are being bullied, are bullying
or just want someone to talk to, go to www.cybermentors.org.uk
where you can get help and support from people your own age.
Watch this
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