Legal Regulation on Cyberbullying of Children
Zheni Liang *
Beijing Open University, China.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
With the prevalence of social networking sites, cyberbullying of children has intensified all over the world and caused serious social problems. Compared with traditional bullying, cyberbullying is more widespread, the methods are more diverse, and the harm to children is more persistent.To further legally regulate children's cyberbullying behavior, the relevant laws of China, the United States, and Japan were selected to investigate, to find out the common points of their laws on children's cyberbullying. The final paper proposes that the behavior of children's cyberbullying should be punished by law, and the correct guidance of society, schools, and families to children's use of the Internet should be strengthened.
Keywords: Children's internet protection, cyberbullying of children, children's rights protection, rules and regulation