{"id":522124,"date":"2010-04-09T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100408\/0218098933.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-09T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:15:00","slug":"as-cyberbullying-moral-panics-heat-up-actual-rates-of-cyberbullying-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522124","title":{"rendered":"As Cyberbullying Moral Panics Heat Up, Actual Rates Of Cyberbullying Decreasing"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you hadn’t noticed, there’s been a growing moral panic around the concept of “cyberbullying”<\/a>, with various states passing laws against it and Congress even considering it<\/a> as well. And, of course, if you read stories in the news these days, you might think that cyberbullying is happening everywhere and that It Must Be Stopped<\/em> at all costs To Protect The Children<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, as Larry Magid is pointing out, actual studies on the issue show that so-called “cyberbullying” is on the decline<\/a> and most kids are good kids who are as disgusted with the concept as adults. In fact, some research suggests that all of the stories about this “cyberbullying” threat may actually make the problem worse<\/i>. That’s because kids are more likely to engage in the practice if they think it’s common. And, even though it’s not common today, all the press reports may spread the idea that it is. In the end, as Magid points out, as with other moral panics, the real solution tends to be parental education — not misguided laws.<\/p>\n

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If you hadn’t noticed, there’s been a growing moral panic around the concept of “cyberbullying”, with various states passing laws against it and Congress even considering it as well. And, of course, if you read stories in the news these days, you might think that cyberbullying is happening everywhere and that It Must Be Stopped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}