The People vs The Trolls: cyberbullying and the law | David Harvey | TEDxAuckland

David talks about online bullying and what people can do about under the current laws.

David is a District Court Judge, an educator and an award winning academic on legal and information communications technology matters.

As a District Court Judge, he presided over all criminal jury trials and judge alone criminal matters, civil proceedings and in the Youth Court. His involvement with the New Zealand Court on information technology initiatives began in 1990, and has continued to influence his academic writing.

Judge Harvey has presented a number of papers both in New Zealand and internationally on law and technology matters, especially in the field of how technology can improve court and judicial processes, as well as access to justice. David’s blog is a unique insight to a top level new legal decision making in an increasingly fast changing world.

[jaredmayo]

Whoever is calling her this should be in legal trouble

[CobraVeight]

What about a person that spreads a inappropriate photo to his contacts on their phone, for the soul reason of destroying their reputation of course this goes on further as each person tells another 2 people and more etc

[RinoaL]

if you silence the trolls, nobody can talk. not even you.

[mickeymcnaughton]

A reasonable and reasoned proposition is that, within every person, irrespective of position of responsibility, there exists a "catfish" just waiting to jump out. This could just as easily apply to "innocent" moms and dads and those within NFT organizations who might presume that by having a source of knowledge about any individual or group they have an "issue" with (even some emotionally driven issue) they might have a "moral" justification for (mis) applying some of that which they access. I would suggest that this legislation is NOT just brought about to address the activities of those who want to "play around" with other people's lives using publicly available material. I would further suggest that why information access "footprint" mechanisms are now so popular is because, just like little children, fully grown adults will try to "nick" cookies from the jar that they are not entitled to have their fingers in. At the very least, such retrospective tracking mechanisms will usually (but not always) determine just where a request for personal information has come from and what has been accessed. Bear in mind that outright carelessness and foolish mishandling of material/information obtained can account for a good proportion of material (later) used to target an individual or a group for the purpose of aggravating or harassing them. Still, that's human nature for you, the inquisitive and the reactionary.

[Patrickstarrrrr]

If you can’t handle the internet, don’t be on the internet.

[stargirl]

The so called “Cyber bullying” is a minor price to pay for freedom of speech.

[onewithinchava]

I believe many of us have a problem with a hate speech speaker here on yt