Japan has seen a sharp increase in incidents of online abuse and cyberbullying,with experts suggesting that people find it easier to criticise and insult behind the anonymity of social media posts.
Japan’s parliament approved tougher penalties for criminal defamation in a move prompted by a bullied wrestler’s suicide that is raising free speech concerns.
It’s wrong to suggest we can be anonymous online because what we do on the internet can do real harm offline.
Bullying is a loaded term that’s being levelled a lot these days. The righting of long-tolerated wrongs,or politically correct overreach?
Scott Morrison has vowed to protect youth mental health with election promises to protect children online,while continuing to back controversial candidate Katherine Deves.
National Australia Bank has moved to block words and phrases designed to scare or control victims after detecting 10,000 attempts to send abusive messages in March alone.
COVID-positive in isolation,the last thing a despairing parent needs is po-faced judgment from Twitter trolls.
Police have charged a man and a woman with separately sending threatening online messages to Labor frontbencher Kristina Keneally late last year.
Women in everyday professional jobs which require an online presence are censoring themselves after being attacked for their sex,appearance and being working mothers.
Experts say the plan to amend the country’s defamation laws will increase legal costs,waste court time and make it harder to get some online comments removed.
Lawyer Nyadol Nyuon joined representatives from the Muslim,Jewish and disability communities in giving evidence to a federal parliamentary inquiry about the abuse they have endured online.