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Support the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act HR 1966
  1. Signatures
    266 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. The U.S. House of Representatives
  2. Created By
    C S
    Platteville, WI
About this Petition Petition Letter

Megan Taylor Meier committed suicide at age 13 following online encounters with someone she thought was a cute teenage boy named Josh, but who turned out to be the mother of one of Megan's friends who created the MySpace account.  Witnesses testified that the woman intended to use Meier's e-mails with "Josh" to get information about her and later humiliate her, in retribution for her allegedly spreading gossip about Drew's daughter.

HR 1966 is a bill aimed at preventing future abuse of children or any person through harmful messages on the internet.

This bill was introduced April 2009 and is now in committee. It is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.

Contact your legislators, senators and representatives asking them to support this bill!

Recent Signatures

HR 1966 Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act

Greetings,

In this age of expanding technology and social networking via the internet, it is an ever more urgent issue to protect children, and indeed all persons, from abuse or other dangers created by the cyber world.

I urge you to support this bill so that the grown number of people who are gaining access to the internet will be protected from harm. I ask that you give special consideration to the children this bill will protect, whom we are obligated to guard against harm by virtue of the fact that they have no vote with which to speak on their own behalf.

I thank you for your time, and ask for your continued dedication to the rights and safety of all citizens, especially children like Megan Meier, who died as a direct result of cyberbullying.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

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