Category Archives: Bullying

Rejected the EU “porn ban” proposal

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bambinopcA wave of protests has risen as a result of the proposal, discussed by the EU Parliament, for the elimination of all forms of pornography in the media.

The “motion to eliminate gender stereotypes in the EU” has triggered the fear that one day we can get to ban porn; citizens have turned against Brussels, forcing Euro MPs to put filters to their mailboxes clogged with hundreds of thousands of messages in defense of freedom of the network.

The proposal required for short to EU Member States to make every possible effort to eliminate the discrimination of women from advertising and also it demanded a ban of all forms of pornography in the media. It was this last part to arouse controversies about the freedom to freely distribute online contents.

Parliament, after admitting that it had chosen unsuitable and too general words for its proposal, it canceled from the text, the phrase that evoked the “ban of all forms of pornography in the media and in the sex tourism advertising”. It also found that most of the complaints were sended by a “very limited” number of IP addresses and therefore could represent a instrumentalization of the case.

What the EU effectively wanted to propose was the prohibition of pornography, but only in advertising. So the problem seems to have been of communication. But we must recognize that through the web, circulating pornographic images and contents of any kind and often have access to them not only adults, but also children and adolescents. At the moment the only way to control is self-defense.

Many parents use the anti porn key, a normal usb pen drive that cleans thoroughly the pc from any pornographic images thanks to complex algorithms that are used to search through all the data stored on your hard disk. The freedom of the network is important, but the protection of the youngest it’s in the same way, just know how to combine the two.

Cyber ​​bullying, the most feared by the young

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safer-internet-day-2013-432x269Ipsos and Save the Children have launched a research titled “The boys and cyber bullying” presented in Rome on the occasion of Safer Internet Day, a day established by the European Commission for the promotion of safe and responsible use of new media among young people.

The work investigates the use of technology as a tool of aggression for adolescents. Among the favorite modes of attack, we find the social networks (61%) with denigrators or intimate photos and videos (59%), or the creation of hostile groups (57%). Aren’t to be excluded the “theft” of e-mail addresses, profiles, or private messages for then make them public (48%), and to send threatening SMS, MMS, e-mail (52%). This type of bullying is surprisingly implemented mainly by females preteens.

These are actions to scare, to subject the victims and 72% of young people believes that it’s the “most dangerous social phenomenon”, more than drugs, harassments and diseases. The “diversity” between the underlying causes: physical appearance (67%), sexual orientation, clothing (48%), or even disability (31%) or foreigners (43%).

The Safer Internet Day this year has involved 90 countries who have reflected, through an online video, on the theme of the European Commission “Liability and rights in the network”. To accompany the initiative many projects launched in each country and a series of recommendations for an appropriate use of social media.

The phenomenon of cyber bullying scare the younger ones, but even more their parents that often don’t know how to react in front of these threats. Often they can’t even access to the contents of all online activities that perform every day the teenagers. To overcome this problem, many parents have resorted to remote control tools for PC that allow them to know everything that happens on a PC. Others ones use spy software which, when installed on the phone, allow to monitor calls and messages, but also to know the GPS location of the phone and so of the young.

Monitoring tools simple and discrete that, due to their reliability and completeness, no longer shock anyone, rather they are purchased every day by thousands of people who choose to safeguard their children.

Killers hired to kill the avatar of his son

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avatarvideogamesThe use of computers, cell phones and video games, you know, can be addictive. Many parents are worried. Someone has found the solution in the installation of spy software on the son’s mobile phone in order to constantly monitor his activities, other use control systems for PCs. Had a bizarre idea the father of an obstinate gamer of 23 years, resident in the province of Shaanxi. He has hired an hitman in charge to eliminate the avatar in which the son identified himself in a role game.

Mr. Feng, the desperate parent name no longer knew how to induce his son to break away from the computer and go looking for a job. He played incessantly since high school, and the productivity of Xiao (the son’s name) had decreased. Before negative votes at school, then he wasn’t able to keep commitments of every kind.

The father, not confident in the work of specialized centers for the technology detoxification, decided to fight his own battle on the favorite ground by the son, a role-playing game, where millions of members come together to fight. The father has carefully observed and selected the most experienced players entrusting them with the task of killing the avatar of the son every time he was connected to play. The murderous tactic was to deter the son.

But this didn’t happen. The digital assassins have always completed their task, preventing to the character of Xiao to play for more than a few minutes, killing him every time. The boy, bewildered by such ferocity, at one point, asked to his murderess the reason for so much obstinacy, coming to discover the mandator. Xiao told to his father that he could do without his video game, but he wouldn’t accept any work that does not consider “worthy of being done”. Aren’t surprised the experts considered that addiction to computer and video games lies in deeper psychological issues and doesn’t go resolved in a “brusque way”. The use of remote PC monitoring tools can help to understand the reasons inherent in the choice of not taking his eyes from the PC.

«Carolina has committed suicide because of who has mocked her»

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carolinaAn act apparently unmotivated what led Carolina Picchio, a girl of only 14 years, to take her life by jumping from the balcony of her father’s home, in Novara, Italy.
The Public Prosecution has opened an investigation, but the heaviest accusation comes from the users of social networking, the first of all is Twitter. Classmates and friends of Carolina launched the hashtag #RIPcarolina and many of them speak of bullying: Carolina would end her life because continually insulted at school by their peers.

A young and very beautiful girl, sunny with a passion for athletics, that suddenly has lost her vivacity and turns off slowly. The torture began on Facebook: insults, risqué photos stolen. Her sadness has distanced many “friends” that don’t found more fun to stay with her, and so “Caro” was increasingly isolated.

Since last summer, the girl lived with her father in Novara, the brazilian mother didn’t live with them. She had already changed schools during these four months and she spent a lot of time to train in the gym. “None of us ever thought she could be a victim of bullying“, said the principal of her present school.

It’s investigating on the messages and osé photos of which the teenagers speak, there are fears that the social effect has amplified the affair. There is also talk of an alleged letter that the fourteen year old would have left before the tragic gesture.

Meanwhile on Twitter the charges go on: “Carolina has committed suicide because of who has mocked her”. Once again it’s the world of social networks that makes the rules. “They insult me too”, “Tomorrow I have to go back to school … and see those idiots … I can’t do it”, can be read among the many tweets.
Strong message that shouldn’t be underestimated. Many parents can’t have access to the contents of all the online activities of teenagers, so they has resort to remote control tools for PCs that let they know what happens even within the social.
Other parents use spy software which, when installed on the phone, allow them to monitor calls and messages, but also to know the GPS position of the phone and so of the boy. Tools that were unthinkable a short time ago, but by now of great importance for the protection of adolescents.