Please demand Social Media to take a stricter stand on cyberbullying and trolling

Cyberbullying and trolling continue to have devastating effects on the lives of many, but above all teenagers and other people who can be isolated for personal or religious choices. However anyone can at any point become a target and cyberbullying is hard and slow to deal with through traditional legal venues. Please amend legislation so that social media:
1) takes measures allowing users being cyberbullied to not only block but shun (make their own profile invisible/not possible to be searched) by those bullying them
2) include a button or other equally easy to identify and use tool on all user profiles allowing anyone encountering cyberbullying/trolling to report it to the website's administrators/services, whether it concerns them or not
3) have responsibility to report to public authorities cyberbullying cases against users that the website's services are clear about being under age
4) create awareness campaigns, messages or other initiatives to generate public awareness and sensitization, thus incentivizing a proactive standing against cyberbullying
5) create frontline training to identify and proactively deal with cyberbullying
6) create a zero tolerance cyberbullying policy

Cyberbullying and trolling are not to be mistaken with free speech and are at heart and in spirit completely different. Though some cases may be borderline, most will clearly fall on one or the other concept. Please Mr President, considering the U.S.'s contribution to technological and social media development and its position in the forefront of human rights, tolerance and free expression safeguard, help setting an example that other countries may follow. Help stop cyberbullying now.
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