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Australia Considers Cyberbullying Ban

A TV host was hospitalized after being criticized on Twitter. Really.

Reason Staff | 8.30.2012 11:40 AM


THE Federal Coalition is calling for changes to existing laws - or for new tougher laws - that would better protect people from cyber-bullying and harassment.

It follows TV host Charlotte Dawson's hospitalisation after she was attacked by Twitter "trolls" for naming and shaming a user in News Ltd publications who had told her to hang herself.

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