As technology is evolving day to day, interactions amongst one another are becoming easier and easier by the minute. As we are presented with new problems each day, cyberbullying has one of the biggest reporting cases. This comes from forwarding hurtful messages or threats to a person’s email or cell phone, spreading false statements online or through texts, stealing a person’s account information to break into their account and send damaging messages, etc. As cyberbullying is on the rise and more and more people are being negatively affected, the government should wake up and push for solutions, such as added filters which would prevent malicious conversations from happening across the web and enhanced education on the dangers of cyberbullying. …show more content…
The government believes that cyberbullying has been taken care of. They believe that the security they’ve set years ago will suffice. This is false in all claims. Filters in social media platforms does not monitor what is being said. meaning, anything can be used against an individual to unlimited extents. Although guidelines say that harmful, or hurtful words towards another person may result in a restraint from your account, they never go through with it. Social media users are technically allowed to say anything they want, and because of the large amounts of hate going around, nothing will happen as restraining too many users will lower yearly revenue. Social media barely takes the facts of cyberbullying into perspective because as long as they make money they don’t have a care in the world for others. For this reason, filters on social media platforms play little to no role, and have no effect/restrain in what is being said from one person to another. A second point the opposition may consider is that filters take away people's “freedom of speech”. This also can be misinterpreted in many ways because hate crime, according to law, is illegal in the United States, and is even punishable by jail sentences. The difference between freedom of speech and filters that disallow you to send certain messages, is that it conserves thousands of innocent young teen’s lives per …show more content…
Technology is taking over the era faster then the world could imagine. There’s series of ways to reach people, post online, and meet new people, all of which can be dangerous. If serious action is not taken, cyberbullying will continue to take the lives of thousands of innocent people across the world. It's time to wake up and be the change, before it's forever too