Cases of Cyber Bullying in Singapore

Do you now that Singapore has the second highest number of cyber-bullying cases after the US?
A survey has been done and published in the Strait Times.

What is Cyber-bullying?
It is referring to someone who repeatedly making fun of people online, threatening, intimidating, harassing, humiliating by using internet or mobile phones.
Some examples are posting up videos of a victim being group slapped on the web and stalking the same person by sending threatening emails or incessant messaging.

Examples of Cyber-bullying in Singapore
I will be listing down three cases of cyber-bullying that has happened in Singapore.
These three cases have been published in the newspapers.

The first case is about a relief teacher mocking poor essays written by his pupils in his blog.
The victims are primary 3 students. What happened is that, the teacher posted 4 passages from different compositions written by his pupils and he commented: "I have three terribly ridiculous compositions... a source of entertainment, I should say... I will type it out... no corrections or whatsoever... enjoy!". This form of cyber-bullying not only humiliates his pupils but also makes fun of their essays online.
If you are the parent and your son/daughter is one of his pupils what will you do? or rather what do you think that he should be doing as teacher when he is writing in his blog about his pupils?

Now, the second case is the teacher that becomes the victim. A humanities teacher was filmed by her student using camera-phone when having her lessons. The student then posted a 36-second clip on YouTube. After a few weeks, the student posted a new clip of the same teacher looking frustrated and raising her voice at the class for their poor behaviour. Then after another two videos with the same teacher were uploaded on Youtube. The videos attracted 864 views and were removed from the website after the school knows about it. This cyber-bullying case shows students disrespectful to teacher and videotapes her without her permission and then by making fun of her, they uploaded the videos on YouTube.
What do you think is the intention of this student posting up more and more of these videos in Youtube for others to see? Is it for fun or because the class is just too boring for them so they started filming and uploading in Youtube?

The third case is about a lady who uses a web forum and her pictures were being criticized.
She was called fat, with almost no chin and her picture from her online album was doctored to make her look like a ghost and the Chinese hermaphrodite Dong Fang Bu Bai, a famous character in Chinese movie history. A picture of a horse was also uploaded on the forum saying that she looked like one. Some members of the forum downloaded her photos and made mean remarks on her pictures. She then made a police report and the postings were soon removed immediately.
She said in the newspaper that she was very upset and angry. She cried and could not really sleep for a week. She don't personally know them, so she don't understand why they would do this.
The cyber-bullying case here involves intimidating, harassing, humiliating of people through social websites.
What will you do if your own pictures were being criticized by your friends or people you dont know? Will you call the police or just ignored the comment and delete it away?

Why do people Cyberbully?
Bullying has been around forever but cyber-bullying is different because it allows the bullies remain anonymous. It is much easier to bully in cyberspace than face to face and is much less risk of being caught.


The cases that i got from
1st case : http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080218-50182.html
2nd case : http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20080312-54112.html
3rd case : http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20080312-54090.html
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