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With the progress of the times, various platforms have also entered everyone’s field of vision. The Internet users are people all over the world, regardless of gender, age, or age, they all communicate on the Internet, share everything in their lives, learn some knowledge on the Internet, obtain the latest information on the Internet, and use the Internet as a communication tool. Every day and every moment, countless users share content and communicate on various platforms with public and anonymous identities, but it is during this process that many users take advantage of this opportunity to spread harmful content on the Internet, making the Internet a dark place.
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Harmful content in social media
On digital platforms, countless creators share everything every day, whether it’s a photo, a life or a video, or maybe even an idea and so on. This shared content will be spread to all corners of the Internet, and countless users will view it. However, due to the increasing number of users who view it, everyone has a variety of ideas, and due to the anonymous way of the Internet It gives us users a lot of sense of security, so everyone will express their own opinions on the content, but in the process, bullying and harassment are gradually caused. This kind of user sometimes causes verbal attacks on other users when the language is intense. 23% of students reported that they’ve said or done something mean or cruel to another person online. 27% reported that they’ve experienced the same from someone else. (Steeves Valerie, 2014) Here we can find that the bullying group on the Internet is actually not only adults but also teenagers. Many victims are even teenagers. Bullying among teenagers has actually changed from the playground on campus to the Internet or even other channels. . And as more and more people use it, this kind of behavior on the Internet in recent years should be said to be happening every day. And the types of content are diverse, and some may include pornography or even violence. It was reported that 47 per cent of young persons aged 11-17 years had unintentionally accessed material on the Internet that they found to be “offensive or disgusting“. (Janet Stanley, 2001) Teenagers in modern society are also using the Internet to Helps study, but sometimes when they see these contents, it will cause great harm to their health and psychology, and even for them it may be a visual shock or even bring psychological shadows or cause precocious effects, because still Children so do not rule out that they will emulate these contents. Jessica Logan was an 18-year-old Sycamore High School senior who sent nude photo of herself to her boyfriend, but the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the photo was sent to hundreds of teenagers in at least seven Cincinnati-area high schools after the couple broke up. (2015) According to this real case, we can find that teenagers are not ignorant of bullying because of their young age. Although it may only be because of a photo, they have inadvertently caused girls to suffer. It hurts a lot, and what we don’t know is whether there will be a classmate bullying the girl, or even this thing has caused the girl to cause bullying and harassment. This incident was followed by the girl who chose to commit suicide. characteristic of geek culture, the openness of communities which often leads to them being dominated by trolls or other problematic members, and a “rhetoric of freedom and choice” which overemphasizes individual choice as the reason why women may not participate and ultimately devalues such conversations as Infringing upon members’ freedom of speech (Adrienne, 2016) is not just cyber violence, even the idea of online harassment and degrading women is abhorrent, and things like this continue to happen online. Through these events, it can be found that the different spread of these harmful contents on the Internet has caused some troubles and impacts on our lives.
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Who will stop the spread of harmful content
The dissemination of these harmful contents on digital platforms should be regulated by the government of each place and the service providers of each platform. The purpose of these existences is to protect the freedom of speech on the Internet first and secondly to prevent these bad things. Content dissemination, to ensure the security of the Internet and give users a good online experience, to maintain a green Internet environment. Since social platforms have brought a lot of convenience to our lives, governments in various regions will establish Internet laws to prevent bad content from continuing to spread and cause harm to the country and the masses. And this kind of thing has often happened in recent years, and we will also learn about the efforts and roles of the government and platform service providers to protect users. Internet governance means that any opinions expressed on the Internet we are on will be monitored, which has the benefit of regulating our behavior and speech. On the larger scale, it might be because your government decided that there are some things you can or cannot see. (2022) The benefit of this is that when some websites or videos we visit may cause harm or affect us, they will all be banned This will make young people avoid browsing violent and pornographic websites when using the Internet, because these websites have a certain impact on their growth, and even prevent us from spreading the bad factors in the website. The most important government regulation will also crack down on illegal websites that engage in illegal activities, violence, and sex.
How to prevent and stop
For preventing and preventing cyberbullying, the first thing to do is that users should be responsible for maintaining such a green environment, and when people browse this video or information, their comments should not contain elements of ridicule or insult. Secondly, I think that each platform should launch a text recognition system. For example, when we detect the existence of uncivilized elements in our speech, we should be banned from speaking, or some words should be banned. When we send these uncivilized elements the words of civilization are not shown but hidden. And some bad websites will be permanently banned. When we browse this bad content, we should also actively report it, and eventually, ban this content. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, cyberbullying escalated. During stay-at-home orders, research shows cyberbullying increased 70% and toxicity on online gaming platforms increased by 40%. (Sherri, 2022) This reflects our stay-at-home the longer the time, the higher the efficiency of this kind of thing. We should not be addicted to the Internet all the time, we should exercise more to accompany our family. Parents of teens need to control the extent of the websites their children use and teach them the right to treat everyone. And Internet service providers can launch a platform for young people, on this platform children can learn about their learning knowledge and what they want to know, which greatly prevents young people from being involved in bullying behavior, and helps their healthy growth. And if someone around us encounters this kind of bullying, we should help them in a timely manner, we should support what they send is correct, and enlightening rather than continue to be sad. When we encounter this matter ourselves, we can refer to these five tips, Don’t respond or retaliate, Block the bully, Save the evidence, Report it, Tell a friend or trusted adult (2017) I think these points are in The best solution when we encounter this kind of thing ourselves. The most important thing to prevent this thing is that each of us should avoid this thing, we should not choose to be a bully, and we should not spread this harmful content when each of us controls our own words and deeds. , then the bad things about digital platforms will also be greatly reduced.
Conclusion
Communicating with digital platforms every day has actually become our habit. What we need to understand is that we use it to make our life more convenient, rather than using it as a tool to vent and bully others. We should all use less time and we should all maintain this platform to stop this from happening. We are all responsible for managing a small part of it. We should treat everyone with kindness.
Reference list：
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Steeves,Valerie(2014) Cyberbullying: Dealing with Online Meanness, Cruelty and Threats P1-51. https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/publication-report/full/YCWWIII_Cyberbullying_FullReport.pdf
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Janet Stanley. (2001) .Child abuse and the Internet https://aifs.gov.au/resources/policy-and-practice-papers/child-abuse-and-internet
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The Top Six Unforgettable CyberBullying Cases Ever (2015) https://nowcomment.com/documents/36945
