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Keep Internet Forums Free From Harassment!

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Any internet forums or internet communities
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The freedom of speech is a wonderful thing and so are internet communities. People can have serious or light-hearted conversations and exchange opinions on various subjects. Sometimes people may disagree and that is just part of a discussion, nothing wrong with it.
But some people just randomly yell out insults like "troll", "noob", "idiot", "no one cares about your problems", as a response to serious threads. Such people should just get banned or at least suspended from the forum for a while. Lots of internet communities just let it slide, but they shouldn't, we should urge all internet communities to make sure that their forums are safe to write in, without people yelling out random insults!
The freedom of speech is a wonderful thing and so are internet communities. People can have serious or light-hearted conversations and exchange opinions on various subjects. Sometimes people may disagree and that is just part of a discussion, nothing wrong with it.
But some people just randomly yell out insults like "troll", "noob", "idiot", "no one cares about your problems", as a response to serious threads. Such people should just get banned or at least suspended from the forum for a while. Lots of internet communities just let it slide, but they shouldn't, we should urge all internet communities to make sure that their forums are safe to write in, without people yelling out random insults!
We, who have signed this petition are offended by people randomly insulting us and our friends in internet forums. Disagreeing is fine, but people who yell out insults like "troll", "idiot", "noob" or "no one gives a shit", as response to a serious topic, just make people sad and angry.
Please, take online harassment more seriously and make sure people who post stupid insults in the forums aren't able to post there. This isn't an attempt to limit the freedom of speech, but to encourage it: So that people can write openly about their opinions and issues, without having to worry about people attacking them with random insults based on nothing.
Thank you for reading this, I hope you will take action to make sure no one is harassed!
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We signed the "Keep Internet Forums Free From Harassment!" petition!
# 154:
5:38 am PDT, May 30, Evamarie Meyers, New Jersey
I have had an ex-sister in law start a web page claiming I was a man. Did the right thing and went through the local Police Dept. instead of handling it myself. Let me tell you they did absolutly nothing about. Having the IP numbers. Nothing was done. Not only harassment. theft of identy, defamation of character, slander.
# 153:
7:17 pm PDT, May 5, Angela Sekelsky, Pennsylvania
# 152:
10:19 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 151:
10:48 am PDT, Apr 6, Youth Internet Safety Advocate, Canada
# 150:
5:09 am PDT, Apr 6, Genevieve Osullivan, Ireland
Freedom to speak is a wonderful freedom to have, but it requires being respectful of other people and tolerance of their opinions and beliefs. However that does not stretch to a freedom or right to bully someone else. Bullies are not interested in freedom of speech, so they should be politely ushered away until such time as they have a constructive contribution to make, because then they have freedom just like the rest of us
# 149:
12:09 pm PST, Jan 1, Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 148:
4:00 pm PST, Dec 5, Evamarie Meyers, New Jersey
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!

Have you ever been cyber-bullied? Share your story, so it will not happen to anyone else.

# 147:
2:54 pm PST, Dec 3, Dorothy Catanese, California
Bullying another person for any reason is despicable and can impact someone for life. People of all ages need to realize this before more people get hurt. Lives are on the line here as cyber-bullying is responsible for countless suicides among today's youth. Sticks and stones can and do hurt if you're hit with the long enough and hard enough, and words can have the same results and leave wounds which may never truly heal.
# 146:
8:13 am PST, Nov 27, Andrew Page, California
# 144:
7:10 pm PST, Nov 17, Name not displayed, India
I have been harrassed by this Psycho-path who has been using my photos and altered them through photoshop & using it on the internet and posting lewd remarks & has been Sms'ing me on my phone threatening me of dire consequences. he wanst me to pay him 50,000/- INR. He has been abusing me & my family. We are helpless & need help to go forward & stop this menace

I have been harrassed by this Psycho-path who has been using my photos and altered them through photoshop & using it on the internet and posting lewd remarks & has been Sms'ing me on my phone threatening me of dire consequences. he wanst me to pay him 50,000/- INR. He has been abusing me & my family. We are helpless & need help to go forward & stop this menace

# 143:
1:30 am PST, Nov 16, Lloyd Scott, Nevada
# 142:
4:10 pm PDT, Oct 15, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 141:
4:42 am PDT, Sep 26, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece
# 140:
11:51 am PDT, Sep 19, Ray Mallonee, Nebraska
# 137:
10:28 am PDT, Aug 14, Andi Alnwick, New York
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 136:
5:16 pm PDT, Aug 11, Name not displayed, New Hampshire
I get pms from complete strangers saying I'm gay for the type of siggy I have up.

I've been being harassed myself on a forum and being called gay and all kinds of things and the staff of this forum won't do a thing.

# 135:
5:15 pm PDT, Aug 11, Kim Wilkinson, United Kingdom
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 134:
1:28 pm PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Sweden
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 133:
11:12 pm PDT, Aug 6, BiLL Fowlie, Maine
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 132:
8:21 pm PDT, Aug 6, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 131:
3:09 am PDT, Jul 28, Chhiv Leng Koeu, Australia
Site administrators are fully responsible for their site and its members and must take full responsibility! Failing to do so reflects poorly on management and control of their site.

I've been bullied, threaten, harassed, and stalked by several psychotic lunatics out there! Site administrators must be able to protect their members!

# 130:
11:21 pm PDT, Jul 26, K S, Georgia
I think it great to have communities police themselves like youtube has now.

I have been stalked by an absolute psycho and it has just about ruined my web life! I host a group about HIV and AIDS and other than the 1 known psycho have had othersl; all kinds of mysterious attacks. I'm sure the one person at least is mistaken me as a vulnerable and therefore attacking me? People are the craziest animals. I try to let it go. You know we ain't gonna like everybody out there, and visa versa, no matter who we are! You know people will crucify the best among them? It helps me to understand this - I don't have any use for worry and anxiety otherwise. People are the cwaziest animals! I love them anyway!! I think in forums threads and the blogosphere usually these out blurts are from people who are intellectually ineffectual and therefore are acting their shoe size at the time! I have something like this to think (to myself) at times like these - to whom it may concern - "Whatever d a!? You know get off the porch so to speak! Sit down, take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth, you might learn somethin!!"

# 129:
9:35 pm PDT, Jul 25, Rosa Ranger, Michigan
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 128:
8:27 pm PDT, Jul 24, JOSSIE A ROSS, Canada
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 127:
3:59 pm PDT, Jul 19, Alison Hiestand, Connecticut
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 126:
1:11 pm PDT, Jul 19, Susie Holman, United Kingdom
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 125:
7:11 am PDT, Jul 19, Iro Kapeloni, Greece
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 124:
6:42 pm PDT, Jul 18, Adrianna Martin, Indiana
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 123:
10:07 am PDT, Jul 18, Stephanie Lessard, New Hampshire
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 122:
10:29 am PDT, Jul 15, SL VSL, Bulgaria
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 121:
2:31 am PDT, Jul 14, Steve Klein, Canada
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 120:
10:36 pm PDT, Jul 13, June Marshall, New Hampshire
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!

Thankfully not. I hope never to be cyber blied

# 119:
8:22 pm PDT, Jul 13, Karen Sheaffer, Pennsylvania
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 118:
7:49 pm PDT, Jul 13, Laurel Watson, Arizona
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 117:
7:47 pm PDT, Jul 13, Rhiannon Myst, North Carolina
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject! I don't have to post and be insulted. As much as I would hate to leave the group if it were not dealt with , I would. I know it difficult to geal with this issue online for the moderators, but they need to know about the problem and who it is. If they don't know they have no way to try to deal with it.

I don't have time to go into the few I have had.

# 116:
7:43 pm PDT, Jul 13, Sabrina Suhaili, Malaysia
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 115:
4:00 pm PDT, Jul 13, Name not displayed, United States Minor Outlying Islands
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 114:
3:33 pm PDT, Jul 13, Heather Gregory, South Carolina
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 113:
2:29 pm PDT, Jul 13, Denise Lytle, New Jersey
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 112:
7:39 am PDT, Jul 13, Seamus Macnemi, Georgia
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 111:
7:21 am PDT, Jul 13, Walter Weese, Germany
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 110:
6:45 am PDT, Jul 13, Donna Smith, North Carolina
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 109:
6:28 am PDT, Jul 13, NARESH KADYAN OIPA INDIA, India
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 108:
5:46 am PDT, Jul 13, Cher Isbell, Texas
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 107:
4:56 am PDT, Jul 13, Name not displayed, Netherlands
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 106:
4:20 am PDT, Jul 13, Elle Jordan, Massachusetts
I think it is really stupid for a person to take a negative kind of attitude in the form of obscenities directed at a serious petition or news story that we are trying to get across. We call them trolls and we try to warn other people of their exsistence. However, it is sometimes met with hostility from the administrators of Care 2. We know who they are and how to protect ourselves by blocking them. This seems to upset the administrators. We are online all of the time trying to make a difference in the world. Some people work really hard at this and it is rather disappointing when someone comes along and makes stupid and unwarranted remarks. I know I don't appreciate it.It might be something that Care 2 wants to take a second look at.

No, I have never been cyber-bullied but then I can take care of myself in situations like that. With the nature of my work, I receive my share of e-mails that could be construed as being bullied but not on the care 2 site.Well sometimes people can get bent out of shape if you don't agree with what they are trying to get across but then that is the nature of the beast and in my chosen profession, it happens all of the time.

# 104:
2:18 am PDT, Jul 13, Michael Makarenko, Ukraine
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 103:
12:29 am PDT, Jul 13, Name not displayed, Kentucky
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 102:
11:29 pm PDT, Jul 12, Shannon Doyle, Wisconsin
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
# 101:
10:59 pm PDT, Jul 12, Ahuva Kapon, Israel
Please, tell the forum administrators how offensive it is to get stupid insults when you're talking about a serious subject!
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