Improve Cyber Laws

Improve Cyber Laws
Why this petition matters

Cyberbullying laws are pretty flimsy unless the bullying results in death or severe injury. I feel that if it has any effect on the person(s) life whether it causes fear or simply just upsets them that there should be some form of punishment.
An example of this would be pretending to be someone to give them upsetting information or calling people 'fat' or 'ugly' online because people don't see what effects this has on people it keeps going in a destructive cycle, taking more and more lives every year.
As an adolescent with mental health issues I can't stress the importance of these laws, as cyberbullying can cause eating disorders, self harm, low self confidence and suicide these issues are very serious and aren't as rare as some people seem to think. between the ages of 9 and 18 1 out of 5 people have self harmed at least once in their life.
Along with all these problems cyberbullying causes trauma, although it may not be very evident this trauma causes a lot of pain to the holder and without treatment it can turn into very large issues, over time it can manifest into suicidal ideation and suicide attempts causing distress for family and friends so I strongly feel we need to introduce laws to try and reduce this issue.