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On June 17, the Japanese parliament passed a legislation that would impose a fine of $75, if someone bullied someone online, he would be detained for less than 30 days and fined no more than 10,000 yen; It is now adjusted to a maximum one-year sentence with a maximum fine of $2,200.
Why have the penalties become harsher? The incident dates back to May 2020, when a 22-year-old Japanese professional wrestler and reality TV star Kimura Hana chose to commit suicide because he could not stand online bullying and malicious criticism.
What sparked later social controversy in Japan was that a Osaka man who left malicious remarks several times in the Twitter comment section in front of Kimura Peanut was charged with "insulting" and fined only 8,000 yen. This incident triggered a large number of Protests and dissatisfaction among Japanese netizens.
According to a survey by nihon Keizai Shimbun, there were 19,000 cyberbullying incidents in Japanese primary and secondary schools in 2020, the highest in 14 years. These events have led Japan to pay attention to the phenomenon of cyberbullying, and legislation has been put back on the agenda.
Unlike traditional bullying, victims of cyberbullying may not know the true identity of these bullies or why these strangers are targeting themselves. They may experience decreased self-esteem, increased negative emotions, or even suicidal thoughts.
Cyberbullying occurs almost everywhere in countries or regions where digital technology is developed. The development of network technology has made the dissemination of information more rapid and convenient, and it has also led to bullying behavior being easily imitated, the language of bullying is easy to be spread, and the impact will be more extensive than traditional bullying.
During the epidemic prevention and control period in Shanghai, a lady found a takeaway brother to deliver food to her father because her father was physically disabled and the community where she lived was in a closed state. The takeaway brother in charge of delivering the food kindly delivered the dish to the old father's house and confiscated any expenses for the woman. The lady felt too overwhelmed to go, and charged the takeaway brother with 200 yuan.
Obviously, this is a very warm story: the woman is filial to the father, the takeaway brother sends charcoal in the snow, and the woman knows how to repay gratitude. However, some netizens are dissatisfied with the 200 yuan thank-you fee, standing on the moral high ground to judge, these keyboard heroes on the woman's Weibo concentrated "Internet violence", some people who do not know the truth followed their descendants, pushing the parties to the cusp of public opinion, and eventually led to tragedy. When the police station received the alarm and arrived at the scene, the person was no longer there.
In the internet, which is not easy to blame, it seems that rumors and smears do not need to be responsible, so many people may not think of the consequences of their own words. In the past, most of the people who were subjected to cyberbullying were minors, but as can be seen from the above two examples, adults can also be greatly affected by cyberbullying.
Today's education still does not teach people how to face online bullying. Schools don't mention it, teachers don't teach, and when their children encounter similar incidents, many parents' first reaction is to block the Internet. Just like when there was no Internet in the past, when a child has not yet established his own worldview, limit him to a certain range, and he will not be exposed to bad things.
But in today's Internet age, as long as you can access the Internet, good and bad information will rush up, and when children have not yet established the ability to distinguish between right and wrong and self-protection, it is easy to be misled or encounter network bullying. In fact, what we really need is to teach children how to cope, not to avoid or even close the door to the Internet.
Just as cars are at risk of causing car accidents, it is wrong to tell people not to drive or take a car, and the right way is to teach them to obey traffic rules and develop the ability to drive safely.
From a societal perspective, legislation to deal with cyberbullying must be sound. At the same time, the corresponding education also needs to be put on the agenda. Because the Internet has become a part of everyone's life, the next generation of the Internet, that is, the "meta-universe", is slowly unfolding. It will allow children to enter a broader world and see a more wonderful world of virtual and real integration. The more powerful the platform, the more room for cyber bullying to play, and the text still brings great psychological harm to people, let alone immersive virtual worlds.
Therefore, in order for the next generation to better adapt to the future world, we must actively deal with those future problems that are highly likely to arise. We want to teach our children the skills to survive in the future world. For example, when encountering cyber bullying, seek help from parents and relatives in time; Know how to protect your privacy on social networks and not leak data to strangers; Know that you have the right to seek legal help at any time and hold the perpetrator accountable; Corresponding law enforcement agencies and psychological support agencies should also increase publicity so that children know how to ask for help.
Internet companies can not shirk their responsibilities, now various social platforms provide a lot of tools, children from an early age to learn to use, such as limiting who can comment or browse the content you posted, how to report bullying and so on. Some of the current VR social platforms also have more conspicuous features, such as Horizon, a virtual social platform launched by Meta, which has a "safe mode" above the handle, which can be blocked with one click when encountering bullying or harassment to help children safely surf the Internet.
I believe that in the future world of virtual and real integration, everyone is kind and sincere, responsible for what they say, accumulating their own credit, and the social applications in the future network world must tap the good side of human nature. But proper defensive measures are always necessary. In order to achieve a better future, let's start cultivating the concept of education for the future today.
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