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There are laws that only address online harassment of children or focus on child predators as well as laws that protect adult cyberstalking victims, or victims of any age. While some sites specialize in laws that protect victims age 18 and under, Working to Halt Online Abuse is a help resource listing current and pending cyberstalking-related ...
For example, the Violence Against Women Act, passed in 2000, made cyberstalking a part of the federal interstate stalking statute. [34] The current US Federal Anti-Cyber-Stalking law is found at 47 U.S.C. § 223. [45] Still, there remains a lack of federal legislation to specifically address cyberstalking, leaving the majority of legislative at ...
Currently, there are 45 cyberstalking (and related) laws on the books. While some sites specialize in laws that protect victims age 18 and under, Working to Halt Online Abuse is a help resource containing a list of current and pending cyberstalking–related United States federal and state laws. [88]
The Supreme Court heard a free-speech case on Wednesday and sounded ready to make it much harder to prosecute alleged online stalkers who repeatedly send unwanted and harassing messages that leave ...
Cyber-bullying that does not involve explicit sexual content can be more difficult to prosecute because there are no federal laws directly protecting children from direct forms of cyber-bullying. [23] Cases of cyber-bullying are difficult to pursue in the United States due to infringement on First Amendment rights (i.e.: freedom of speech). [24]
A California man sent more than 200 threatening messages to Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
However, cyberstalking is a form of cyberbullying. [34] Cyberstalking is a federal crime in the United States as part of the Violence Against Women Act of 2005. This law was amended in 2013 to include stalking over the Internet and by telephone and introduces penalties of up to five years in prison and a 250 000 USD fine. [35]
An active duty Marine who in Southern California has been charged for allegedly cyberstalking young women in what federal officials are calling a “sextortion campaign.”