Certain political leaders are essentially bullies and create an environment where bullies thrive. Similar environments exist elsewhere in society. The reality is that technology creates gated barriers surrounding a village within the greater community, trying to shield the village from the greater evil, yet the villagers must leave the village and attacks move to the areas outside the village.

Behavioral changes within society are truly needed, technology just helps us enforce the rules within a limited context. The real issue is actually mentioned in the post above, we have failed to teach our children and society how to respectfully coexist. The XCS and other filtering systems are only tools to help restrict activities. Myriad means to bypass these controls exist. Students will use proxies, sites that aren’t monitored, compromise privileged user credentials, etc… in order to circumvent technological controls. Where they fail, they will often seek out unrestricted systems outside of the school.

The article states 26 percent of teachers teach students how to handle cyberbullying, yet I’d be willing to venture that more than 26 percent know at one or more proxies or at least how to find ways to circumvent technological content filtering controls.