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Many people have heard the story of Megan Meier, the 13-year-old who committed suicide after being tormented online by a teenage boy who told her to kill herself… who later turned out to be not a teenage boy at all but a 49-year-old mother getting some kicks through cyberbullying. (The woman in question, Lori Drew, [...]

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I’ve been prickly and on-edge the past couple of days. I don’t know why, and it’s bothering me. Yesterday I left a cranky comment on my favourite blog, which I immediately regretted because fighting online is about as productive as trying to convince my cat not to eat my plants: you can put as much [...]

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