A million online bullies run rampant in cyberspace
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Britain’s playground bullies are increasingly moving online to harass and abuse their victims.
A new study published by online identity experts Garlik charts the number of young net bullies in the UK. One in five 8- to 15-year-olds (18 per cent) freely admit to being online bullies and posting deliberately offensive comments about others and in extreme cases ‘stealing’ their identities.
The motivation for this bad behaviour varies with the majority of culprits (30 per cent) admitting they do it...
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