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North Carolina laws and regulations cover bullying. North Carolina General Statute § 14-35. Hazing; definition and punishment. North Carolina General Statute §14-458.1. Cyber-bullying; penalty. North Carolina General Statute §14-458.2. Cyber-bullying of school employee by student; penalty. North Carolina General Statute §115C-238.66.
This is one of the first comprehensive cyberbullying and cyberstalking state laws that protects children and adults from harassment on social networking sites. The bill is a reaction to Lori Drew's case dismissal [ 15 ] and Governor Matt Blunt , the politician who signed the law into effect states, "[Missouri] needs tough laws to protect its ...
United States v. Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449 (C.D. Cal. 2009), [1] was an American federal criminal case in which the U.S. government charged Lori Drew with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) over her alleged cyberbullying of her 13-year-old neighbor, Megan Meier, who had died of suicide.
Cyberstalking specifically has been addressed in recent U.S. federal law. 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]
Revenge porn is the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of individuals without their consent. [1] The material may have been made by a partner in an intimate relationship with the knowledge and consent of the subject at the time, or it may have been made without their knowledge.
Laws against hate speech can be divided into two types: those intended to preserve public order and those intended to protect human dignity. The laws designed to protect public order require that a higher threshold be violated, so they are not often enforced.
Intimidation is defined as an interaction style that emphasizes on "bullying, exploiting, or manipulating others, solely for one's own advantage." [ 10 ] Intimidation may be employed consciously or unconsciously, and a percentage of people who employ it consciously may do so as the result of selfishly rationalized notions of its appropriation ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kansas v. Hendricks that a predatory sex offender can be civilly committed upon release from prison. [5] The Supreme Court ruled in Stogner v.. California that California's ex post facto law, a retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors, is unconstitution