States from Oregon to Rhode Island are considering crackdowns to curb or outlaw behavior in which kids taunt or insult peers on social Web sites like MySpace or via instant messages. But critics argue that legislation would be ineffective. Steven Brown, of the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, said it will be difficult to draft a cyberbullying law that doesn't infringe on free-speech rights.
February 23, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old Essex Junction, Vt., boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies.
In 2003, Ryan killed himself.
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