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Teens favor criminalizing cyberbullying Cyberbullying By
La jeune adolescente de 16 ans recevait des messages textuels menaçants. Ses camarades ont commencé à l'insulter par courriel quand des rumeurs à son sujet se sont répandues à l'école. On l'accusait d'avoir simulé une fracture à un bras.
«J'en ai eu assez des gens qui essayaient de me faire du mal ou qui me harcelaient, a-t-elle dit depuis son domicile de Listowel, en Ontario. Je devrai probablement m'en occuper moi-même, mais je veux que toutes les formes de harcèlement (à l'école) deviennent illégales.»
La Fédération canadienne des enseignantes et des enseignants a adopté, le 12 juillet, une résolution demandant the addition of cyberbullying to the Criminal Code, which gives new hope to Miss Neu.
"The Criminal Code already mentioned (harassment) were (...) phone talking about harassment by mail. But the criminal code makes no mention of new technologies, "lamented the president of the federation, Emily Noble. The laws of the Criminal Code were all written long ago. Let's update it where necessary. "
But law professor Michael Deturbide, Dalhousie University in Halifax, believes it may be difficult to criminalize cyberbullying or determine what is acceptable et ce qui ne l'est pas.
«Je serais très prudent avant de faire de l'intimidation en ligne un crime, a-t-il dit. Les formes les plus graves de cyberintimidation sont déjà couvertes par le code criminel.»
M. Deturbide rappelle ainsi qu'il est déjà criminel de harceler les gens au point où ils en viennent à craindre pour leur sécurité, et que la propagation de rumeurs mensongères ouvre la porte à une poursuite en diffamation.
Et si la cyberintimidation est offusquante et déplaisante, poursuit-il, elle est aussi associée à des questions de liberté d'expression.
«La liberté d'expression est permise au Canada et ça signifie qu'on may say something unpopular and even nasty, but there is a line not to cross, "said Professor Deturbide. And this line is already defined by the Criminal Code and I do not see why we would need legislation specifically targeting Internet. "
Robert Frenette, a young man of 19 who joined Ms. Neu to launch the site Internet bullyingcanada.ca in 2006, has heard these arguments.
"I was bullied for 11 years and a half and I do not see bullying as a form of expression, he said. If we can charge for intimidation physics, we should be able to charge for cyberbullying. "
Mr. Frenette was cyber bullied by two girls who threatened a site online discussions. The next day they sat behind him on the bus and burned his neck with a lighter.
"When I told school, I brought with me a written copy of their threats," he said. But they said they could not lay charges because it was online product. There were charges if it had happened in person. The judicial system really let me falling. "
