Ethics and Cyberbullying: The Case of Amanda Todd

CYBER BULLYING
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Cyber Bullying
Cyber bullying refers to the use of the electronic communication such as the social media to bully or coerce a person by sending messages that intimidate or threaten the person. There have been several incidences of cyberbullying in the United States, which have proved cyber bullying to be detrimental to lives of people. One of the cyber bullying cases is one that led to a girl named Amanda Todd committing suicide after being confronted and persuaded by unknown man to send him pictures of her naked breasts and she did (Pendergrass, 2014). The man later on leaked the pictures to the public after threatening Amanda to put on a show for him and she declined. This case arose the need for new cyber bullying laws against those people who harass others online.
The major legal issues that revealed from the case were the issues of internet fraud and blackmail. This case also raised several ethical issues such as the social media’s sexualising the culture of youth and propagation of the porn industry by sending nude pictures online (Wolf, 2020). Over the past few decades, the growth of social media has brought with it an unwanted vice; the commodification and commercialization of sex. It looks like there is an increasing demand for not only the general stuff, but others that border on the obscene. In fact, the current generation seems to be more wired towards advertisements that border on obscene.
Additionally, there are malicious people out there in the vastness of the internet, whose sole aim is to exploit. They do this by mastering the art of blackmail. This is through squeezing out the most sensitive issues from a...