Elective.docx

Vinas, Jervhel Glen M. 1LM2

In this generation, people like it to post their own experiences in the internet like their significant events, thoughts and ideas, experiences and other things they may actually take pictures or videos of or write a post. These posts may become viral or popular and viewers will make it a trend. People always get a reputation and popularity from these various posts and blogs that will make one a net idol. But some instances make one life a miserable one too. Do you remember Amalayer Girl or the tagged post of a FEU student athlete in sexually explicit video circulating in social media? Have you watched the live videos of Jelai Andres and Toni Fowler or the video of an Atenean boy who said “Bugbog or Dignidad”? All of these are today’s viral videos in the internet that people talked about.

All those viral videos that humiliate someone circulating in the internet received hateful and vague comments from other people. The effect of this actions and comments from other people makes the person bullied from the internet and experienced various threats and depression. These hateful comments towards to the person make him or her victim of cyber bullying. A cyber bullying is a cyber-crime that bullying takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyber bullying can occur through SMS, Text, and apps, or online in social media, forums, or gaming where people can view, participate in, or share content. Cyber bullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation. Some cyber bullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior. According to Rappler.com, “Under Philippine laws, bullies can face the consequences of their actions, even charged criminally. The targets or students and their parents are protected, and can avail of legal remedies provided under the law," lawyer Amado Aquino III told the Philippine News Agency (PNA). Aquino pointed to Republic Act No. 10627, or the Act Requiring All Elementary and Secondary Schools to Adopt Policies to Prevent and Address the Acts of Bullying in their Institutions. RA 10627 enables students to anonymously report bullying. Although disciplinary administrative action would not be taken based on an anonymous report alone, bullies are still subject to punishment once the report is established as true. The law requires the school principal or any authorized representative to report to the law enforcement agencies if he or she believes the bullying is tantamount to a crime and, thus, criminal charges may be pursued under the Revised Penal Code. The law says students, parents, or any member of the school administration may report bullying instances or act of retaliation that they have witnessed. Then school principal will notify the police, take disciplinary administrative action, notify the parents or guardians of the bully, or notify the parents or guardians of the victim regarding the action taken to prevent any further acts of bullying. For non-compliance of RA 1067, the Secretary of the Department of Education shall prescribe the appropriate administrative sanctions on

school administrators. Erring private schools shall likewise suffer the penalty of suspension of their permits to operate. The rampant increase of cyber bullying among students, parents, and citizens of this nation is an alarming situation for this cyber-crimes are being tolerated and normalized by other people and the mental health of the persons affected are at stake for other’s entertainment. I stand against of cyber bullying and other types of cybercrime that is now a normal thing for Filipinos because people now are lacking of proper education to not have the skills but also, to develop media literacy and etiquettes, people are governed by likes, shares and comments from other people from their posts to make them popular, and especially, the people affected by these crimes are under the great pressure o