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Legal Challenges of Cyber Bullying & Online Harassments - A Comparative Analysis

Author(s) SHASHANK MITTAL
Country India
Abstract Nowadays, when the internet is present in every sector of our lives like in (education, information, shopping, etc), adolescents are fascinated by the opportunities of the new technologies. Youngsters use the internet and mobile phones for easy access to knowledge, for better and wider communication, for social interactions; and all of these can be done at any time or at any place.
However, all these are the benefits of the new technologies but along with this there are some threats for the school and college going students in this virtual world most of the today's generation instead of using internet for some innovative and informative motive they move to wrong directions they try to have access to pornography, doing online bullying , stalking through electronic media etc has increased nowadays.
Young adults can also use the internet and mobile phones for doing wrongful actions which are being prohibited by law which includes sending shameful pictures or messages, threatening someone, spreading rumors about someone , sarcastic comment on physical characteristics of someone with intention to harass him/ her, or using a fake identity or taking revenge.
Such online activities are called cyberbullying which is also defined as "an aggressive act or anti social behavior that is done using electronic means by a group or an individual repeatedly against a victim who cannot easily defend himself/herself".
So therefore it can be said that, cyberbullying is a type of bullying occurring by the use of digital technology . The term cyberbullying can be called by different names such as : cyber bullying, e-bullying, cyber harassment, text bullying, SMS bullying, mobile bullying, digital bullying, internet bullying. In this paper we will use "cyberbullying" to refer to the harassment of the others through new electronic technologies, first of all by the internet and smart phones.
Published In Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024
Published On 2024-04-30
Cite This Legal Challenges of Cyber Bullying & Online Harassments - A Comparative Analysis - SHASHANK MITTAL - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.19295
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.19295
Short DOI https://doi.org/gts4n9

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