Needed: Laws against cyber harassment

SMU Assistant Professor of Law Jack Lee Tsen-Ta said that cyber harassment is serious because the threatening, abusive or insulting content is rapidly accessible by many people and causes great embarrassment to the victim. "Content that is uploaded to the Internet is often very difficult to eradicate because it can be forwarded by third parties or remain in caches," said Assistant Prof Lee. He felt that the penalties for such harassment should be increased, though younger offenders should continue to be dealt with in Juvenile Court. "Some thought should also be given to whether it should be an offence for someone to forward harassing content to other people, even though the forwarder did not originally create or upload the content," he added.

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