{"id":333,"date":"2007-11-19T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2007-12-13T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T11:43:59","slug":"the-virtual-world-is-getting-harsh-with-cyber-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-virtual-world-is-getting-harsh-with-cyber-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"The virtual world is getting harsh, with cyber-bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch by YouTube of a site where users can raise concerns about cyber-bulling puts in to sharp focus the reality of teh virtual worlds we create.  While the YouTube initiative illustrates the nature and extent of personal abuse by internet or phone-text, it should not detract from awareness that traditional non-physical abuse is also widespread and hurtful.  The old saw &#8220;sticks and stones &#8230;&#8221; is just wrong &#8230; words DO hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/Beatbullying\">YouTube set up a site<\/a> where youngsters can post their own videos and messages.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/7098978.stm\">first online anti-bullying channel has been launched<\/a> to encourage young people to denounce the intimidation.  It follows growing concern about the increase in persecution by e-mail, mobile phone and on social networking sites, known as cyberbullying. <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=keVe44R4jOQ\">Here&#8217;s the video with celebrities against bullying.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch by YouTube of a site where users can raise concerns about cyber-bulling puts in to sharp focus the reality of teh virtual worlds we create. While the YouTube initiative illustrates the nature and extent of personal abuse by internet or phone-text, it should not detract from awareness that traditional non-physical abuse is also &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-virtual-world-is-getting-harsh-with-cyber-bullying\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The virtual world is getting harsh, with cyber-bullying<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}