Cyberbullying

In nowadays one of the most bulling method takes place online through smart phones and tablets its rife on the principal social networks such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter or even WhatsApp messenger. Most of the young people will experience it at list one time in his lives and can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can grow it very fast. there is a lots of ways of cyberbullying and we going to speak about the most important each one. Harassment is when the bully sending offensive and malicious messages to an individual and is often repeated multiple times that kind of cyberbullying is similar to Flaming but this one use a type of public bullying that often directs harsh languages, or images to a specific person and to this kind of cyberbullying could be apply the lay of protection from Harassment Act 1997 and it cover the racially or religiously offence. The outing is when a bully share private information such as pictures, videos or personal information in the social network and the bully cold be accused of Defamation Act 2013 it cover the protection of reputation. Masquerading there is a situation where the bully create a fake identity to harass someone anonymously. that four kinds are the most famous cyberbullying and in some of them it’s no legal definition of cyberbullying within UK lay but its possible apply some of them depends of the case. I would like to mention some of the lays that could be apply in this cases:

•Sexual Offences .
•Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994: penalties for certain «anti-social» behaviours.
•Malicious Communications Act 2003.
•Communications Act 2003: makes it an offence to send an electronic message that is grossly offensive.
•Defamation Act 2013: right to freedom of expression and the protection of reputation.

Actually there are a lot of associations that they have a telephone number and you can communicate with them to short out this kind of problems.