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9-13-2008 9:54 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/49412d19-c2cc-458a-8cbb-29225ab5ed73/12B01EEE-F80A-4FE6-A895-264F0A700357/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.answers.com/topic/cyber-bullying" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/cyber-bullying" style="font-size: 11px;">www.answers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/cyber-bullying"><B>Cyber bullying</B> or <I>online bullying</I>) is a term used to refer to <A 
class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/bullying-1" target=_top>bullying</A> and <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/harassment" target=_top>harassment</A> by use of electronic devices 
through means of <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/e-mail" target=_top>e-mail</A>, <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/instant-messaging" target=_top>instant messaging</A>, <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/short-message-service" target=_top>text messages</A>, <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/blog" target=_top>blogs</A>, <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/mobile-phone" target=_top>mobile phones</A>, <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/pager" target=_top>pagers</A>, online games, and websites.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/cyber-bullying">
<P>It can constitute a <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/computer-crime" target=_top>computer crime</A>. For example, in the 
<A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states" target=_top>United States</A> it is a federal crime 
to anonymously "annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person" via the internet 
or telecommunication system, punishable by a <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/fine" target=_top>fine</A> and/or up to two years <A class=ilnk 
href="http://www.answers.com/topic/prison" target=_top>imprisonment</A>.<SUP class=reference 
id=wp-_ref-fedcrime_0><A href="#wp-_note-fedcrime">[1]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/cyber-bullying">Cyberbullying is willful and involves recurring or repeated harm inflicted 
through the medium of electronic text.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/cyber-bullying">Cyberbullying may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e., 
hate speech). Cyber-bullies may publish personal contact information for their 
victims at websites. They may attempt to assume the identity of a victim for the 
purpose of publishing material in their name that defames or ridicules them.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/12B01EEE-F80A-4FE6-A895-264F0A700357/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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