New Zealand recognized kiberbulling crime. Say NO to social networks. Bashny.Net

New Zealand passed a law criminalizing kiberbulling. Now the man convicted of sending racist bullying, or any other messages that have led to "serious emotional experiences" can get up to two years in prison.



In addition, under the new law, cybercriminals its incitement and insults dovedshy person to suicide, in the case of evidence of guilt could get three years in prison.


The New Zealand Government will also create a new agency responsible for reviewing complaints that have not been able to resolve social networks, such as "Twitter" or "Facebook". According to one of the points of the new law, the agency will be able to remove the offending messages within 48 hours of their discovery.

By and large, the new government's decision merely establishes certain rules of hatred and violence. However, some members of the New Zealand Parliament criticized the text of the bill, according to which the criminal liability may involve children, in addition, such legislation undermines free speech.

Word kiberbulling (cyber-bullying) appeared in the international lexicon of a few years ago and is a virtual teenage terror, persecution through digital technology, aggressive placement of photos and videos. Among the most common types of commonly used kiberbullinga slander when spreading deliberately false information about a person, an attack in which a teenager fill up a huge amount of messages and emails offensive content, isolation, during which the victim is excluded from various social groups, and heppisleping (joyful beating) when a child is beaten, lifting it to the camera.

In recent years, thousands of teenagers around the world have been victims of a virtual peer aggression, which often brought even to suicide.