DeafReaders and DVTV vloggers, How to handle the cyberbullying, cyberstalking and harrassment..
Hello, everyone!
I’d like to give you some advice on how to deal with cyberbullying, cyberstalking, harrassments and whatnot. Also, I’ll put up Do and Don’t list for you to review on how to handle it. I’ll put a few links for you to check out and/or even fill out the form if you feel threatened.
The person can be either male or female. They can be your ex-husband, ex-wife, disgruntled worker, and even some stranger you encounter in Internet.
DO:
1. Take the physical harm/death threats seriously and contact your local police FIRST before contacting your local District Attorney.
2. Keep the records of all emails (do not ever change any body of email messages) by printing them. Save any snail letters. Copy the videos and even audios. The reason why you should keep those records, that would build up more evidences to show the court if those threats are really valid.
3. If somebody makes any slander and libelous about you, keep that record to contact your own attorney.
4. Keep ignoring those harassers, they may go away. If they keep harrassing you, tell them “Please stop bothering me. Thank you.” If they won’t stop, tell them you’re going to the proper authorities if they don’t stop.
5. If you suspect somebody is stalking you by following you home or workplace, call the police right away. If they email or mail you to threat to confront you in person at home or workplace or even public place, call the police right away.
6. Do change your email address if they kept harassing you.
DON’T:
1. Do not fight back. You would give them more power to get back to you without giving up. IGNORE THEM!
2. Do not insult or retort the harassers via email or letters, they will thrive on those because they will keep going. They like to be in power over you.
3. Do not change anything in the email because the authorities want to read EVERYTHING.
4. Do not edit out the videos. The authorities want to see EVERYTHING.
5. Do not wait too long to contact your attorney or police or even DA.
Here are the links:
http://www.cdaa.org/
This is California District Attorney as an example to get the phone number. Some online do have Internet Crime in there. However you need to contact your local District Attorney if you live outside of California. Or even check on yellow pages to get the correct phone number to contact District Attorney.
Cyberbully - How to stop it
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/lawenforcement/telling_the_difference.html
Cyberstalking, Cyberbullying and Harassments form to fill out at
https://www.wiredsafety.org/forms/stalking.html
911 on Cyberstalk, etc. This is very important resource for you to read and review to determine whether you’re really being stalking and whatnot.
http://wiredsafety.org/cyberstalking_harassment//index.html
If you have any questions, feel free to ask us or contact your attorney.
Ciao, Misha
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Hi Misha, I appreciate you doing this and providing us with additional information on this issue. We’ve been silent and we’ve ignored this certain character but yet the cyber-harassment and cyber-stalking persisted at numerous deaf net communities and via emails since being banned from DeafRead and DVTV. Enough is enough. Thank you for providing this avenue to explore more options so we can feel empowered not to put up with this anymore and exercise our rights.
Hi Misha,
Great Tips and Good Information for addition in websites and others.
as I second to Mike S.
I hope Vloggers and Bloggers get aware smile.
Lester
Deafhalibut
We had these issues at a BBC site, stalking and bullying, they told contributors to stop complaining because it spoiled the site (?) One person was harassed continually they didn’t back him, so he had to leave the site. Bullies are very clever people, they word things that are ambiguous which make things difficult to define, we need braver moderators to see it for what it is and act quickly. Americans are very pro-free speech so suckers for this type of bullying, they fear free speech being confined, so let it through.
Brit sites ban very quickly !
There is a problem with moderators. Most do not act to stop it. On the TV this morning they said “By far the leading abusers of free speech are the bullies and the terrorists.” Deaf-read needs to monitor some blog comments, this is the back door for bullies, and for sites run by bullies, who use free speech to let others slander where they don’t dare, or even post nasty comments on their own blogs under a different name.
I told deaf.read of one site that had 6 responses on one topic, 2 were attributed to me and weren’t mine, I live in the UK, the addys were from another country entirely ! how you can use a lawyer to get at these people from America I don’t know. Responsible mods will read the abuse and zero the offender, and prevent them logging back in under a new name.
The 4 others came from the blog owner under 4 different addys…. If you posted a comment, they would edit it and reprint it differently, or refuse a comment that put balance….. or simply post it way out of context later. The only thing you can do is note the site, never respond on any level to the person responsible for it, prevent ‘anon’ postings, and/or monitor them very closely. Check out the source if you can…. look for similarities in the way they comment, because mostly, their bile never changes…
If you support comment that offers abuse, then you too are the abuser so should suffer the same fate, that is banned from deaf.read, a traffic light system should be introduced, 3 strikes via comment abuse, you are out.
Very good one
Hi Misha
Very good in providing educational information to vloggers and comments on how to deal with cyberbully and cyberstalking.
Internet world is growing everyday and there are bound to encounter these types of folks who gets the pleasure out of this bullying behavior so, we need to really understand and identify then protect yourself.
Deb