Internet bullying is a very hot topic these days. Like most people, I dealt with bullying to varying degrees throughout my school career. Luckily, I didn't have to deal with the digital component that plagues bullying today. Internet bullying has reached the point where it exists not only in an individual school, but it comes from thousands of people that view embarrassing actions of children on the web. A case in point would be the Star Wars Kid.
Now, the way I see it, it's generally very difficult to stop widespread actions like internet bullying. The best thing you can do is monopolize on it. If you're a kid that's getting bullied setup a website that people can come to in order to bully you. The Star Wars kid should have copyrighted and posted his video on a site with advertising. Then he should have gone after anyone that posted the video anywhere else without his permission. The result would have been that the thousands of people that wanted to view his video would have had to come to his website to see it. Imagine the money he could have made off of google adsense and other advertisements. At that point he no longer would have been a victim, but rather an entrepreneur.
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