Tag Archives: cyber-bullying

Megan Meier’s Hometown Outlaws Online Bullying

An article just “hot off the press” on a British online publication, no less, reports the hometown of Megan Meier, Dardeene Prairie, Missouri, made online harassment illegal. A town where a 13-year-old girl hanged herself after falling victim to a “cyber-bullying” campaign has become the first in America to criminalise internet harassment. In what they [...]

Article: ABC News: Family Linked to Girl’s Suicide Harassed

I want to post a link to an article I just discovered about the suicide of Megan Meiers, a victim of cyber bullying, instigated not by her peers, but by the mother, Lori Drew, of one of her friends. The article, ABC News: Family Linked to Girl’s Suicide Harassed was a particularly difficult one for [...]