by Cyberbully Advocate | Jan 7, 2022 | Social Media Policy
Over the past several years, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the federal law that provides social media platforms with immunity from liability for user content and was once hailed as “the law that gave us the modern Internet,” has gone from relative...
by Cyberbully Advocate | Dec 10, 2021 | Advertising, Big Data, Class Actions, Copyright
Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement…but is it? A Manhattan federal judge...
by cyberraven | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, cyberbullying, Featured, research, statistics
In May-June 2021, we collected new data from a nationally representative sample of 2,546 US youth between the ages of 13 and 17 to better understand their positive and negative experiences online. This is the type of research we do on a regular basis, and it helps us...
by cyberraven | Oct 18, 2021 | adult victims, Adults, Evergreen, PDF Overlay, prevention, Resources
(For a formatted .pdf version of this article for distribution, click on the image above [or click here]). Spanish Translation Available Here Here are a few ideas on how to prevent adult online harassment: 1. STAY UP TO DATE WITH PRIVACY SETTINGS, Social media sites...
by cyberraven | Oct 16, 2021 | adult victims, Adults, Evergreen, PDF Overlay, Resources, response
(For a formatted .pdf version of this article for distribution, click on the image above [or click here]). Spanish Translation Available Here Here are a few ideas for what to do when adults are being cyberbullied: 1. DO NOT RETALIATE. Those who cyberbully want you to...
by cyberraven | Oct 12, 2021 | Compliance, Contracts, European Union
As part of the new Fair Consumer Contracts Act, [Gesetz für Faire Verbraucherverträge; published in the Federal Gazette (Part I) no. 53/2021, p. 3433 et seq., full text publicly available (in German) Germany will soon require specific cancellation/termination...
