Students harassing private Facebook profile

Students harassing private Facebook profile

To fight against harassment in school, foundations have just been held. The Minister of Education announced among other measures, the closure of Facebook accounts for harassing students. Legal aid will be offered free of charge to victims. Interview with Eric DEBARDIEUX, President of the International Observatory on Violence explains: "Sometimes prevention doesn’t work. When there is proven harassment...say, we cut your account, I think it’s pretty healthy. We cannot let this extraordinary communication tool, the Internet and social networks, be spoiled by unacceptable practices. ' Interviewed, the doctor Marie-France Le HEUZEY, child psychiatrist explains "These attacks are virtual... but I believe that they sometimes do even more harm than physical attacks, because it is humiliation...".

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File : Violence and the Internet

Publication date : 4 May 2011