"Nearly 1 in 3 students report bullying during the school year. One in three. For every class of 27 people, 9 of them would have been bullied. When it comes to cyberbullying, those bullies are fearless. With today's technology, they're able to sit behind a computer screen and pretend to be someone they're not. They can create fake profiles and begin to harass their next victims. No one could know who they are expect the person behind the screen. When bullies do this, it makes it a lot harder for them to get in trouble because of the fact that they‚Äôre under a fake identity. The debate about how the government can regulate this upcoming epidemic is always one of ambiguity. That‚Äôs only because yes people have the right to their first amendment, …show more content…
No child, and I repeat no child, should ever be bullied. When it comes to the government regulating these things, I believe they should intervene when they see it happen. With the kind of control they have, it doesn't take a lot to shut down a site, or block others so they aren't able to access their next victim’s account. These are the actions that can prevent cyberbullying while also abiding to the first amendment. The cyberbullying research center once conducted a simple random sample survey of 457 people and asked them a few questions. Of the 457, 34.4% reported being cyberbullied at least once in their lifetime. Within a span of just 30 days, 6.4% reported of pretending to be someone else on the internet just so they're able to pounce on their victim. Bullying is no longer something that just happens to kids at school but it follows them at home as well. It’s no longer something a kid can avoid at the playground but now they have to live with it in their safe haven, their own home. One of the many thousands of cyberbullying cases was a young girl named Sarah Lynn Butler. She was bullied on my space back in 2009 with rumors and unwanted