I certainly agree that privacy is difficult to maintain in the modern interconnected world. I'm curious about the type of person that would want to abuse a student's privacy in the first place. There's the possibility of hacking into that student's other networks to steal monetary information, but what about trolling and bullying? When you think about it, people are willing to put a lot of time and effort into gathering information just to mock somebody.
It's clear that bullying online needs to be deterred. While using the same punishments as real-life threats might be too harsh, there does need to be a way to hold people accountable. Otherwise, at the rate of trolling online increases, we'll end up raising generations of sociopaths.
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