In todays 'Sunday Morning With Laura Kuenssberg' at about 0:34
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x0sm
The parent of a girl who ended up killing herself after online bullying went to see the PM earlier this week in connection with the campaign to ban smartphones for under 16's.
The father of another girl who was literally bullied to death also wants a specific law to ban cyber bullying. Mariano gives a moving interview about losing his daughter (and wife shortly afterwards) and how appallingly her school dealt with the situation.
As usual one, or a small group of people starts doing it, nothing effective or nothing at all is done about it. This gives rise to the phenomenon of others feeling that they have permission to join in and so it snowballs. They do it to disempower people by grinding them down, strip them of any confidence or self esteem and the poor girl ended up committing suicide.
Later on in the morning a new term 'antifans' was explained. It's where former fans of celebrities, influencers etc have gone off them for some reason and start mercilessly criticising them for how they look, what they wear, how they walk etc.
The conclusion was that those who constantly criticisise others are jealous.
What sort of a nasty waste of time life are some people leading? The internet has given us lots of wonderful opportunities, but it has a nasty side to it that needs sorting out.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
What did he say that was “racist”? Or “sexist” …….although I don’t think it’s illegal to be misogynistic, at least not yet.
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It's all explained in the programme.
Whether something is illegal to say or not, if it amounts to harrassment it becomes illegal. The definition of what is harrassment is when an individual feels harassed. This was reiterated on this mornings political programmes on BBC1.