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There is a distinction between cyber-trolling and cyber-stalking. Research has shown that actions that can be perceived to be harmless as a one-off can be considered to be trolling, whereas if it is part of a persistent campaign then it can be considered stalking.
Cyberbullying and cyberstalking, by their nature, define adversarial relationships. One person (or group), the provocateur, is exerting a view or opinion that the other person (or group), the target, finds offensive, hurtful, or damaging in some way.
In addition, the male participants revealed the opposite, 16% were overt stalkers while 11% were cyberstalkers. Alcohol and physical abuse both played a role in predicting women's cyberstalking and in men, "preoccupied attachment significantly predicted cyber stalking" while the victims were likely to have an "avoidant attachment". [33]
“The second you put the word ‘cyber’ next to anything, so cyberstalking, cyberharassment, cyberbullying, it’s never taken as seriously as if it’s physical,” she says.
Electronic harassment, electromagnetic torture, or psychotronic torture is the delusional belief, held by individuals who call themselves "targeted individuals" (TIs), that malicious actors are transmitting sounds and thoughts into people's heads, affecting their bodies, and harassing them generally.
The stalker wants to instill fear in a person to justify their status, or may believe they can get away with these actions due to online anonymity. [ 100 ] The US federal cyberstalking law is designed to prosecute people for using electronic means to repeatedly harass or threaten someone online.
A 40-year-old man was stalked to Wild Woody’s Happy Foods in Kansas City’s Ingleside neighborhood and shot several times, according to federal prosecutors.
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