Cyberbullying, scammers, and child predators are a few of the many harms children can encounter while online, along with mental health issues. Public policy experts examine the challenges of balancing privacy and security.
Josh Stein has a track record of struggling to side with the First Amendment.
There’s a loneliness epidemic among youth today. That’s the growing consensus among researchers, with implications for school culture. One reason: Lonely, depressed kids are more likely to bully or be bullied. Given new evidence of widespread bullying nationwide, this is more relevant than ever. Fortunately, new research also illuminates a promising path forward, showing kids...
In 2009, the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting online bullying of juveniles. The rarely-used law recently was struck down as unconstitutional, with the N.C. Supreme Court holding that the poorly worded law violates First Amendment free-speech rights. During the 2011-12 school year, Dillion Price was a sophomore at Southern Alamance High School. Soon after...
Emboldened by a cyber-cloak of anonymity, adolescent spite is finding its outlet all over the Internet -- on social networking sites, through instant messaging, in chat rooms -- and in cell phone text messages.
