by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed
Cyberbullying is back in the news, and some legislators are trying to get it into the books. Following the suicide of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi — who jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September after his roommate allegedly filmed him having an intimate encounter with a man and streamed the video on the Internet — a pair of New Jersey congressmen introduced a new anti-bias bill earlier this month that would, among other things, make it clear that harassment undertaken via electronic media is just as illegal as the old-fashioned kind. (A similar bill has legislative approval in New Jersey and awaits action from Gov. Chris Christie, who said last week he had not decided whether to sign the bill or seek to “improve it”).
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/29/cyberbullying
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