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Thank you We sneak in cyberbullying allah shmoop cyber side

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the perfect crime or rather the perfect belief That's what

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you aimed to dio could be your neighbor your little

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brother or the guy who believe you all less here

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calling you a democrat while you were attending east wyoming

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high You want to mess with that guy now and

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not get caught You look at those other cyber bullies

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have gotten in trouble and you think that's not going

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to be me So you engineer the perfect crime All

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right well you know they can't trace you if you

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just pay cash at a kinko's ten miles out of

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town And while you're sitting there you opened a free

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brand new yahoo email account And from that account you

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post all kinds of pictures of that east wyoming high

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guy accusing him of being on or know of vegetarian

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it's the worst insult you can think of it All

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right Well there will be no trace here Back to

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you Right You falsified your profile info Made a fake

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address fake everything And then you create a new facebook

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account using all that fake yahoo email address info stuff

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It's air tight can't be traced you've thought everything through

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right Sandy sanderson and friend requests his bully and yeah

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you're appearing here is a female better be easy prey

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should just be a matter of seconds that east wyoming

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high bully spends practically all day on facebook and he

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accept every friend request especially from good looking girls Two

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minutes later it's bingo you're in you start with just

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a friendly post a how you been jeremy He responds

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pretending he knows this sandy character a few more chit

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chatty things and then you unleash is that a mustache

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on your lip or eyeliner Hey eight face did you

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never evolve Maybe take a bath once in a while

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you smell in real life You're friends with his sister

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So you've got all kinds of juicy personal info in

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your arsenal to go after i'm with insults You even

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mock up a picture of him holding a global warming

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is a problem sign and then things get nasty he

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deletes your post and unfriend you But by now it's

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too late His friends have seen the picture they know

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he's a bed wetter thanks jeremy sister that one really

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Hit the spot Hey jeremy you wear depends who That

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one hit below the belt literally And the bed wetting

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bully who has always had a short fuse loses it

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but you got him back So all school now right

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But now fast forward a day of teasing and stewing

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and well in wyoming they have guns Jeremy grabs his

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dad semiautomatic out of the bedroom goes to the mall

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and just opens fire It gets off a ton arounds

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and ends up killing a dozen innocent people including six

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kids before he's finally shot down and killed by a

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cop Wow yeah that that escalated in a hurry didn't

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it Well you don't have much love lost for jeremy

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but you really didn't expect him to go nuts and

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kill a bunch of people right And he's dead that's

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fair punishment for some bullying facebook post right now things

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are a mess There are cops swarming all over the

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place They want to know why this happened Cops fbi

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cia and are a man Could you have predicted the

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explosion Probably not But are you guilty of gross negligence

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manslaughter some of their crime that warrants a whole lot

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of bully friendly prison time Maybe we'll think about the

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law You have the right to a trial by a

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jury of your peers Well who are the pierced For

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the most part parents are well children at least And

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this event was on the news locally Every night for

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a month the prosecutors in cops and everyone else are

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looking for someone to blame Odds are really good that

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they'll work hard to find someone to throw under the

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bus but you don't really have any tracks to cover

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right You did a good job keeping your hands clean

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right Not so much So let's go back over the

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likely steps from here Well first the authorities are going

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to go through the shooter's computer In fact they don't

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even need his computer to do so They could just

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get the data right from facebook Thank you marc They'll

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quickly see the exchange between the bully and the victim

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and well of course they all want a question that

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exchange But you were smarter than the smartest guys at

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the cia and the nsa Right That second phd from

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stanford's computer science department Really help you Oh wait that

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wasn't you getting that second phd from stanford Well then

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yet you're screwed Here's Why everything that you type or

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anyone else types get stored the data from here You're

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home keyboard or that of kinko's to the local telephone

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company where it's safe and well it then goes out

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into the greater internet beyond as part of the data

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there's usually a direct or indirect address that goes with

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any posting or account Creation or other formal form of

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storing things that address is called an i p address

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or an internet protocol address and a typical one when

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it looks like this the number's operate like zip and

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area codes so that the routers can route data from

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the right computer to the right computer It's always four

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numbers separated by periods each number khun b between zero

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and two hundred fifty five that's two hundred fifty six

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possibilities for each slot and every number represents eight bit

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or one bite of information that identifies your computer as

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well yours without an i p address you don't really

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have anywhere to receive data so in order to be

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on the internet generally speaking you need one There are

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ways to get around this issue Well that's second phd

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at stanford would have shown you how but while you're

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still just in high school and you're like a b

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minus student so sorry you're going to be arrested instead

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no future for you kit goes by the way has

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its own security router at its stores So it's ipe

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addressing is cl clear and standard and it would have

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taken an investigator five minutes tto learn that the facebook

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account was created in this state in this county in

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this inner lot of bank of computers controlled by the

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local phone company and from this computer it was done

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at four Thirty eight pm and wonder if there are

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any fingerprints left on the computer where gloves much Ah

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yeah i didn't think about that one did you Oh

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in the kinko store Security cameras Yeah they work Oh

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there you are Say cheese and it's not just the

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government sharpies from the ai who could get this information

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anyone can use who is which is a rough way

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of assigning i p addresses the physical addresses frighteningly easy

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but it gets worse It is highly likely that we

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have satellite photos from up on high quietly snapping every

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five minutes or so Pictures of the ground below It

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was a nice sunny day And what law Check out

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this stored satellite photo of the government breaking your civil

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rights Well maybe they broke him Maybe they didn't but

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a dozen dead bodies half of them little kids And

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they really don't care a whole lot right now about

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your civil rights So how about the rights of the

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kids to not be gunned down in a mall Oh

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and guess what Here's your truck Not another purple truck

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around for miles and miles and miles and satellites don't

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charge anything extra for a time stamp And yet looks

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like that truck was parked outside this kinko's at exactly

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for thirty eight p M and you're thinking about all

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this as the prosecuting attorney is asking you why you

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went to such pains to drive all that way Toe

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hide actions you clearly took and subsequently denied when the

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cops first i asked you about it Oh and it

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gets worse Your cell phone was left on Well cellphones

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hand off their signals from tower to tower So in

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fact you could easily be traced within the vicinity And

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it's clear that the handoffs happened along this freeway route

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right here And lead you right to the kinko's Yeah

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right here Anyway becomes clear that it is was you

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who was sending the harassing messages that triggered everything that

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changed the town's life No doubt about it to a

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jury of your peers So let's assess are you criminally

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liable Maybe Or maybe You'll get off after a few

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hundred thousand dollars of legal bills Are you civilly liable

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Like could the families of the dead victims sue you

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for being reckless and endangering Well they can definitely sue

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you They may or may not win but lots and

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lots of lawyers would line up for free to sue

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you and your family If you're under eighteen you know

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they're liable if you're under eighteen for things like this

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And even if the lawyers didn't win a cash settlement

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the odds that they bankrupt you and your family just

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from the legal defense bills were really high And lastly

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what about crazy uncle larry the uncle of one of

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the dead children that the guy slaughtered in the hall

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Larry adored little lucy who has now gone from this

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world what you think larry has seen the movie seven

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Well he's just waiting to find a time when you're

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all alone in a parking lot where you have a

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nice cot waiting for you in his nondescript all white

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van Yeah and it's not just bullies who can use

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your online presence toe hurt you people have logged on

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to twitter and gone On a rant about politics or

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sexuality or religion and the next thing they know they're

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out of a job Others have posted that they're on

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vacation in costa rica for the week And when they

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arrive back home they find that their entire house has

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been cleaned out He's Pretty much for sale on ebay

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done by some burglar who was very grateful for all

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the free information Well it may help to be familiar

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with the language of the internet too Not just your

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own g's and ella wells A handful of important terms

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will help you understand how a cyber bully might track

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you down and what you can do to hopefully keep

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him or her or it out of your life Is

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there such a thing as the perfect crime Is it

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possible to glean the rial identity of the person that

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you're talking to in a chat room How likely is

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it that a cyber bullying victim will do something drastic

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Should cyber bullies be held criminally liable In some cases 00:10:24.059 --> [endTime] How about in all cases The perfect crime

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