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The National Crime Prevention Council's definition of cyber-bullying is "when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person."
StopCyberbullying.org, an expert organization dedicated to Internet safety, security and privacy, defines cyberbullying as: "a situation when a child, tween or teen is repeatedly 'tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted' by another child or teenager using text messaging, email, instant messaging or any other type of digital technology." Other researchers use similar language to describe the phenomenon.[3][4]Cyber-bullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender, but it may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e., hate speech), ganging up on victims by making them the subject of ridicule in forums, and posting false statements as fact aimed at humiliation.Cyber-bullies may disclose victims' personal data (e.g. real name, address, or workplace/schools) at websites or forums or may pose as the identity of a victim for the purpose of publishing material in their name that defames or ridicules them. Some cyberbullies may also send threatening and harassing emails and instant messages to the victims, while other post rumors or gossip and instigate others to dislike and gang up on the target.
Flaming is hostility sans content or relevance. Flaming is inflammatory, vicious, gratuitously nasty, malicious, spiteful diatribe. Flaming is not only bullying manipulative provocation against the target, but also manipulative intimidation and aversion more widely, for the purpose of online Relational Bullying, Truth Suppression by sabotage against pointed controversy. One way or another, unpleasant conversation often consists of demeaning disrespect, non responsive hostility and reprobation. Irrelevant invective derision and provocation or even explicit threats, generally sans pertinent content, are not appropriate, nor is the other extreme, touchy-feely Borg collectivity, peer pressure, consensus manipulation, and brown nosing, replete with humorless calculating over sensitivity, Paranoid "reading between the lines" or impugning intentions, bogus innocence abused, pointless picayune irritability, off topic trivial peeves, prudery, anal Netiquette, peer pressure, not to mention such classic cat-and-mouse maneuvers as flame baiting, which is the provocation of any exasperated off the cuff retort or perfectly ingenuous expression of irritation as any excuse for subsequently lashing out, flaming, whining, sulking, even censure or sanction. And this also applies to passive hostility, as in stubborn non response or stonewalling against protest and/or the voicing of begged questions and even points of order. Indeed, on these forums, assent by persistent silence can then be assumed and thus sullen protest by silence dismissed. Only flaming itself deserves the cold shoulder.No accommodation need be offered neither for abuse nor for calculating manipulative false fragility or grudge collecting, what so ever! For serious people with any sense of purpose what so ever, etiquette must advance the task, not the other way around. It’s all about freedom of speech, even to tell others that which they might not like to hear, while cleaving to fair play and good sportsmanship. Don’t make it personal, and don’t take it personal. And let the same standard apply to all, equally. In the end, pertinence is the only issue. Invective is irredeemable not because it is offensive, but when it adds nothing to content. Flaming is inflammatory, vicious, gratuitously nasty, malicious, spiteful diatribe. Flaming is hostility sans content or relevance, undisciplined empty invective, an irritant with no mitigating substance, inflicting waste of time in sifting. Perhaps the worst baiting is such defamation as may simply be too damaging to ignore. Flame is hostile non sequitur, nastiness, abuse, lies, distortion, provocation, usually Ad Hominem Abusive, accusation, defamation, even threats, overtly or by implication. Flame can be thought of as the null-SPAM, in that flame even seeks to overwhelm or subvert topic relevance and context, even without promoting anything else in it's place except malicious irrelevancy in and of itself. Flame promotes uneasiness, close-mindedness and hostility. Flame is the universal Antithesis, ultimate negation. Irrelevant invective derision and provocation or even explicit threats, generally sans pertinent content, are not appropriate, nor is the other extreme, touchy-feely Borg collectivity and brown nosing, replete with humorless calculating over sensitivity, Paranoid "reading between the lines" or impugning intentions, bogus innocence abused, pointless picayune irritability, off topic trivial peeves, prudery, anal Netiquette, peer pressure, not to mention such classic cat-and-mouse maneuvers as flame baiting, which is the provocation of any exasperated off the cuff retort or perfectly ingenuous expression of irritation as any excuse for subsequently lashing out, flaming, whining, sulking, even censure or sanction. One way or another, unpleasant conversation often consists of demanding intimidation, disrespect, hostility and reprobation. Flaming typically resorts to such standard and odious propaganda devices as victim blaming and the Appeal to Humor, Ridicule and Spite, social mockery, ostracism, persecution and baiting without any more redeeming lucidity and perspective of self mockery, indeed, often excused under the umbrella of commentary and satire but ultimately suggesting the puerile and Sophomorically maladjusted Fascist ideation of truth and honesty only attainable by the utter abandonment of civility and decency, all to be despised as bourgeois and effete.The aim of flaming is only to sow sheer confusion, disturbance, distraction, fear, discomfort and aggravation, dirty tricks of Relational Bullying to drive people away, disrupt social interaction and forestall alliance, all to socially isolate the target(s) of bullying, persons or forums, by much the same Mob Psychology as the Nazi agitators and propagandists employed in crowds and the world press, respectively.But naturally, of course conniving flamers often tend to define flaming most narrowly, in order thereby to excuse their own continued flagrant and empty hostility, even while tending to define flaming most broadly in order to lambaste the free speak of others and hence justify whatever abuse in retaliation by and victim blaming no matter what.
