Abstract
The author of this chapter provided a comparison of cyberbullying-related issues across the diverse cyber laws of countries. A definition and distinction between cybercrime and cyberbullying and the impact of cyberbullying on individuals of various ages, socioeconomic, and sociocultural backgrounds were discussed. The cyberbullying provisions in national cyber laws of the top five cyberbullying victim countries were reviewed. Then they were compared to Bangladesh's Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006, and the Digital Security Act, 2018. The final section of the chapter compares the legislation governing cyberbullying in India, Brazil, the United States of America, Belgium, and South Africa to Bangladesh's acts. The comparisons of the crimes demonstrate why the acts are more infamous in Bangladesh than in other nations with a higher rate of cyberbullying victims. Some future recommendations for the Bangladeshi government by examining the country's legislation with the international community and identifying new research possibilities for the future were recommended.
TopCyberbullying
Cyberbullying sometimes begins as a joke, with young people hacking accounts (email, social media, and network profiles) for humor, but the repercussions are far from entertaining. However, cyberbullying occurs when the perpetrator's intent is adversarial or destructive to others (Kumar & Goldstein, 2020; Zhang et al., 2021). Additionally, the perpetrator's hostile purpose can be repeated, because cyberbullying requires anonymity. Wong & McBride (2018) found that cyberbullying requires enjoyment seeking. The degree of fun-seeking was much more predictive of cyberbullying than one of the strongest current predictors, cyberbullying normative values.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Systematic Intimidation: Any act of physical or psychological violence, intentional and repetitive, that occurs with no obvious motivation, practiced by individuals or groups against one or more persons, in order to intimidate or attack the person(s), causing pain and distress to the victim(s) in a relationship of imbalance of power between the parties involved.
Cyberbullying: Cyberbullying 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.
Cybercrime: The use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy.
Federal Law: Federal laws are bills that have passed both houses of Congress, been signed by the president, passed over the president's veto, or allowed to become law without the president's signature. Individual laws, also called acts, are arranged by subject in the United States Code.
Legislation: Legislation is a law or a set of laws that have been passed by Parliament. The word is also used to describe the act of making a new law.
Perpetration: The act of committing a crime or a violent or harmful act. In cyberbullying, the act of intentionally hurt, insult, criminal or violent behavior online is considered as the ‘cyberbully’ or ‘perpetrator’.
Aggressive Behavior: Aggression, according to social psychology, describes any behavior or act aimed at harming a person or animal or damaging physical property.
Hate Speech: Hate speech is any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, religion, skin color sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, or national origin.