Actually achieving significant gains may be harder than the authorities realise, but at least the intent is there - and the recognition that bullying on the internet and by text messaging is a serious issue must be welcomed. Older generations think of bullying in different terms, and have rarely experienced the specific anguish of today's equivalent.
Sadly, I have indirectly had experience of the issue and know only too well how uniquely unpleasant it can be. A young person well known to me logged onto social networking website Facebook one morning to find a truly disgusting hate page dedicated to her. I viewed it myself and - despite being in my mid-thirties and figuring I'd already seen life at its lowest - was comprehensively nauseated by its content. When challenged, the perpetrator agreed to remove the page, but only after we had been unnecessarily polite to an insidious coward that deserved no such compromise.
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