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Tue Aug 7, 2012 5:06am EDT

* Fine of R449 mln vs R3.5 bln originally sought

* Regulator says Telkom impeded competition

(Recasts, adds analyst comment)

JOHANNESBURG Aug 7 (Reuters) – South Africa on Tuesday
slapped fixed-line operator Telkom with a
lighter-than-expected fine of 449 million rand ($55 million) for
using its dominant market position to “bully” potential
competitors.

The result is likely to be seen as a victory for Telkom.
South Africa’s competition watchdog, which first lodged the
complaint in 2004, originally sought a fine of 3.5 billion rand,
which the struggling company has said would be “catastrophic”
and jeopardise its business.

The Competition Tribunal, which rules on anti-trust
complaints, said Telkom exploited its position as South Africa’s
dominant player in telecoms to block competition from other
network service providers.

“Telkom impeded the growth of its competitors and retarded
innovation in the market place,” the Tribunal said, adding that
“Telkom bullied its downstream competitors into line”.

Shares of Telkom, which were down more than 3 percent before
the release of the judgement, pared losses after and were down
1.1 percent at 17.85 rand at 0843 GMT.

“Telkom had to be fined something to make it politically
equitable and for the Competition Tribunal not to be seen as
unfair,” said Dobek Pater, a telecoms analyst at consultancy
Africa Analysis.

“It’s probably an optimal way out for all parties.”

Stung by declining fixed-line usage and an expensive, failed
attempt at expansion into Nigeria, Telkom has been struggling to
craft a convincing turnaround plan.

South Korea’s KT Corp last year offered to buy
20 percent of Telkom in a deal that was eventually scuppered by
South Africa’s government after KT cut back its offer price.

The government has also said companies trying to maximise
profits could overlook the millions of poor lacking services.
Rolling out broadband services is one of the ruling African
National Congress’ stated goals.

The government is currently debating making Telkom a fully
state-owned company once again.

South Africa’s government currently owns just under 40
percent of Telkom, while the state-run Public Investment
Corporation holds just short of 11 percent.

(Reporting by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura and Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
writing by David Dolan; Editing by Ed Stoddard)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/safrica-telkom-idUSL6E8J746X20120807

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A video made by the Y11 students for their CyberBullying campaign.

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What happens when a bully grows up? In a normal society one assumes the bully learns from the errors of youth and no longer desires to gain attention, friendship or power from his/her peers via the forces of intimidation. We remember the bully from our childhood who made fun of classmates, turned friends against friends and coerced others to participate in the bullying out of fear, and we remember the bully who took victim intimidation to a physical level. What happens to those bullies who choose to continue this form of abusive behavior as adults? Simple, they find a new playground in the workplace or a new outlet to espouse their hate and ignorance as recently exhibited in a Times-Republican letter to the editor, “We should be able to express our displeasure with homosexuality” (July 25, 2012).

The article questions why laws are being written to protect victims of bullying and in the next sentence, blames the need on the so-called “homosexual agenda.” I fail to see the connection and/or the logic behind his theory. How is homosexuality to blame for how a bully chooses to behave toward others? Bad behavior is bad behavior and homosexuality has nothing to do with it. It is the next comment, however, that takes his thoughts to a bizarre realm as he compares the new bully laws to the strict regulations and lifestyle control of China’s Mao-ist era thereby implying our children will now be arrested on the playgrounds and “forced” to turn in their parents if they are gay. Somehow I sincerely doubt that is the intent of the lawmakers who are writing the new bully laws.

The author of the article clearly demonstrates why the new bully laws are needed. It is the right of all citizens to expect to be protected from hate and ignorance. I hope the new bully laws will encourage parents and children to openly talk and educate themselves about bullying, lifestyle choices of all types and discuss how to combat hate and ignorance. People should not be afraid to say loudly and proudly who they are regardless of whether they are gay, straight, transgender etc. This country was built by embracing change and diversity. I can only hope that people like the author of that hateful article will someday learn to embrace and love everyone.

http://www.timesrepublican.com/page/content.detail/id/551398/Bullying-and-ignorance--some-people-never-learn.html?nav=5004

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Cyberbullying needs a solution. About a schoolkid who is suffering Depression from Bullying, he finds a resolution.

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Bullying affects every community in our nation. Children are faced with cruel text messages, whispers in hallways, and even physical violence on a daily basis. As martial arts instructors we have a special opportunity to be a positive influence on the lives of these children and help them take a stand and end bullying in their communities through the life skills of confidence, honor, respect, integrity, and honesty. Stand with us as we work to change our communities and end bullying. Share your

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British actor of Indian origin Shobna Gulati quit Twitter, footballers Ashley Cole and Ashley Young were snubbed online. Is racial abuse returning to haunt Britain?

The ghost of Jade Goody’s racial taunt has returned to haunt yet another actor of Indian origin when “Coronation Street” star Shobna Gulati was forced to quit Twitter after Trolls mutilated her photos and posted them online tagging them with indecent comments. While one wrote: “You’re not British, you’re foreign (sic)”, another tweeted: “You have got to be the ugliest f***** I’ve ever seen (sic).” Forty five-year-old Shobna, who plays Sunita in the soap, has gone on record to state that though she had initially tried to ignore the remarks, soon they affected her confidence level. On June 17, she quit twitter with the post: “tweets ta dees need another twitter break. Thanks for the banter the follows the support loved being back but now time to sort other stuff (sic).”

Racism or gender issue?
While racial abuse is a concern, the larger question is whether Gulati, who was born in Odlham to Indian parents, became a target because of her Indian origin or gender. Earlier reports had mentioned that Sunita had faced the flak when her character in the soap had been shown to enjoy a fling with Karl Munro ( John Michie) despite living with partner Dev Alahan (Jimmi Harkishin). At that time, she had also gone on record to state that she was facing all this backlash because of her gender. Her tweets back then read: “Use of the word ‘slag’ for a woman who is “cheating” commonplace with you tweeters and nothing is said about the man WOW #justsayin #baffled. Since doing this story about sunita and being back on twitter I realise that we are still in a world of misogynists #2012. Yawn yawn yawn bored of the misogyny now!”

Is racism still so rampant in Britain?
However, Shobna’s isn’t the only recent case of alleged racism on Twitter. Before her, “The Only Way Is Essex” star Lauren Goodger was called a “fat kebab-legged ogre” and “I wish the sperm that made you never found the egg” while being bullied via Twitter on a regular basis. More recently, the Football Association has expressed concern over offensive posts after footballers Ashley Cole and Ashley Young missed penalties and England was defeated in the Euro 2012 quarter finals. Someone calling himself Steve, using @Lapwnage as his Twitter ID, praised Italian star Andrea Pirlo, adding: “He could give those two black m******* Ashley Young and Ashley Cole a lesson or two (sic) “. He followed it up with comments that the two players were “worthless n******’ who should be deported to Africa (sic) “. On being hauled up by other users for making such remarks, he accused one of being a “smelly Paki”. However, the user later did a turnaround saying: “Just a joke, you guys need to relax, police know I was kidding around and they won’t bother me hopefully”. Calling the comments “appalling and unacceptable”, FA has issued a statement saying it supports any police investigation in identifying who is behind this.

While cops are investigating the issue, in March this year a student from South Wales was jailed for 56 days when he racially abused two Twitter users and mocked Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba after he collapsed and almost died. But not everyone agrees that racial abuse has taken on any epidemic proportion in Britain as yet. Harsha Gopal, a paparazzo based in London who was in the news a few years ago for alleging that she was hit by Jude Law while photographing him, says, “Shobna is quite popular here in London and I’m surprised that she has been through all this. She has been doing this soap for a while now and it’s surprising that she is facing such an abuse now. London is a very cosmopolitan and welcoming city. I have never heard or faced any such incident. This perhaps is a very rare case that’s being highlighted.”

British writer Farrukh Dhondy, “Racism is not what it used to be in Britain. It used to be ignorant bigotry and that has sort of gone — now it’s determined fascists — much smaller scale but still unpleasant. I don’t watch “Corrie” but catch glimpses of it and always notice if there’s an ‘ethnic’ actor on screen. I think Twitter is one of the most mindless institutions of our age and it’s ludicrous that politicians and people of some intellect and culture feel they have to transmit their more than vacuous comments through the microblogging site. It is very unfortunate that Ms G has had this clearly race-biased hate-mail on her Twitter but I am sure anyone who indulges in this vanity of wanting to be heard and admired must know that the Tweet is not an instrument of the Garden of Eden — there are devils lurking. Those who live by the tweet shall be knocked about by the Tweet. I am happy for Ms G that she has given up this noxious pastime. I recommend a good book.”

Dealing with cyber bullying
Twitter has a helpline that gives advice on how to deal with online bullies. Since retaliation can reinforce bad behaviour, it is best never to forward or retweet bullying or mean messages. Shobna, however, hadn’t followed this since she often retweeted those who bullied. But her logic was that she wanted her followers to block those abusing her. Blocking prevents the user from following you or replying to you. Twitter doesn’t pre-screen content or remove potentially inflammatory content unless it violates the site’s conditions. It can’t provide legal advice. It’s best to contact the cops if things have a potential of going out of hand.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/Beware-of-racist-bullies-on-Twitter/articleshow/14426157.cms

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A bully named Drew drives a young teenager to suicide, in the YouTube short “Drew”.

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You can’t help what you don’t know. Increase communication with students and increase school and student safety with the CyberBully Hotline. Meet students where they are and communicate with them on their terms-texting on their cell phones. The CyberBully Hotline is so much more than a phone number. It’s a comprehensive, anti-bullying program consisting of an anonymous, two-way reporting system that students can call or text, school-level and student-level reinforcement materials, and a bully pr

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A Florida teen is suffering from brain damage after attempting suicide a year ago — a victim, his parents say, of being subjected to anti-gay bullying in high school.

Gray’s parents told News Channel 8/Tampa Bay Online that their son tried to kill himself at home after being tormented “nonstop” by bullies at Zephyrhills High School in Pasco County, Fla. “Gay Zach, fag, queer — it was nonstop,” Lynn “Sissy” Gray said, describing the taunts her son used to receive, even though he was not actually gay and had a steady girlfriend.

The latest incident of torment came just before Gray, then 17, allegedly tried to hang himself with a dog chain in a shed behind his home. Together with neighbors and paramedics, Gray’s mother was able to save him by administering CPR, but sadly, the teen is now unable to walk or talk, requiring 24-hour care at a local medical center.

Gray’s girlfriend Keylee Harris, who reportedly dated the teen for five months, says she noticed the bullying as well. “I really didn’t start paying attention until we started dating in January,” Harris is quoted as saying. “And then I started noticing people calling him ‘fag,’ ‘gay’ in the commons area – writing notes, treating him bad, just saying things.”

EDGE Boston cites an investigation conducted by the Pasco School District after the suicide attempt, which found that Gray had complained to teacher Brenda Carlson that other students had called him “Zach Gay” during a field trip. Carlson told the school investigators she responded by asking Gray, “If someone calls you a tree, are you a tree? And if someone calls you gay, does that make you gay?”

“Her job was to come to me, tell me, go to the principal, go to authorities,” Sissy Gray told Tampa Bay Online. “She did nothing.”

Gray’s parents said they were never notified about the taunts their son received, which Patch Editor Keli Sipperley notes in a column about the case — also pointing to the death of Kiefer Allan, another straight 15-year-old who reportedly took his own life after being subjected to bullying.

Noting Pasco County’s “questionable” bullying statistics (only 28 reported bullying incidents in 2011), Sipperley asks, “Are teachers, administrators and schools reporting incidents as they should, or are they turning a blind eye, maintaining the ‘kids will be kids’ status quo?”

Need help? Visit TheTrevorProject.org or call 1-866-488-7386. In the U.S. you can also call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or visit stopbullying.gov .

Take a look at other teen suicides and anti-gay bullying cases below:

• Jack Reese

  Though details of the 17-year-old Reese’s April suicide are scarce, his boyfriend Alex Smith spoke frankly about the repeated bullying the teen had experienced at school.

  As one official is quoted as telling Ogden OUTreach off the record: “It happens here about once a week, but officially, you know, it doesn’t happen here.”

• Kenneth Weishuhn jr.

  The 14-year-old took his own life after friends and family say that classmates sent him death threats on his cell phone and made him the subject of a Facebook hate group.

  “People that were originally his friends, they kind of turned on him,” sister Kayla Weishuhn, a sophomore, is quoted as saying. “A lot of people, they either joined in or they were too scared to say anything.”

• Eric James Borges

  In January, just one month after filming an “It Gets Better” video in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, 19-year-old Eric James Borges took his own life.

  Borges, who went by EricJames among friends, worked as an intern with The Trevor Project, and as a supplemental instructor at the College of the Sequoias, according to Queer Landia blogger Jim Reeves.

• Jacob Rogers

  Jacob Rogers had been bullied at Cheatham County Central High School for the past four years, but at the start of his senior year, it had become so bad he dropped out of school before taking his own life. “He started coming home his senior year saying ‘I don’t want to go back. Everyone is so mean. They call me a faggot, they call me gay, a queer,’” friend Kaelynn Mooningham said.

• Jeffrey Fehr

  Eighteen-year-old Jeffrey Fehr, who was known as a skilled athlete and previously served as the first male captain of his high school’s cheerleading squad, hanged himself on New Year’s Day in the front entrance of his family’s Granite Bay home after enduring what his parents describe as a lifetime of anti-gay bullying.

• Tyler Clementi

  The disturbing rash of LGBT teen suicides began receiving attention last fall. Among those who took their own life was Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student who jumped off the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York after his roommate allegedly filmed him having sex with another man.

• Seth Walsh

  Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old California teen, hung himself in September 2010 after reportedly being bullied because he was gay.

• Raymond S. Chase

  Gay Rhode Island-based student Raymond S. Chase, 19, became the fifth in 2010′s disturbing spate of teen suicides last fall.

• Obama’s Anti-Bullying Video

  In October 2010, President Obama released a video in support of LGBT youth who were struggling with being bullied.

• Pastor’s Confession

  In November 2010, Jim Swilley, the pastor of a Georgia megachurch, revealed to his congregation that he is gay. The 52-year-old father of four said the recent spate of teen suicides, particularly that of Clementi, prompted him to change his mind. “For some reason his situation was kind of the tipping point with me,” Swilley told CNN’s Don Lemon this weekend.

• Daniel Radcliffe Honored

  In June, “Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe was honored with the Trevor Project’s “Hero” Award for his a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/daniel-radcliffe-speaks-o_n_478960.html” target=”_hplink”ongoing suicide prevention efforts/a for LGBT youth.

• Jamey Rodemeyer

  In September, Jamey Rodemeyer, a 14-year-old boy from Williamsville, N.Y., took his life Sunday after what his parents claim was years of bullying because of struggles with his sexuality, months after posting this “It Gets Better” clip on YouTube.

• Lady Gaga’s Dedication

  After vowing to stop bullying and make it illegal, Lady Gaga — a longtime advocate for LGBT causes — dedicated a performance to Rodemeyer at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. “I wrote this record about how your identity is really all you’ve got when you’re in school,” Gaga told the crowd. “So tonight, Jamey, I know you’re up there looking at us, and you’re not a victim. You’re a lesson to all of us.”

• Bachmann Speaks Out

  Days after being faced with a petition that urged her to publicly address gay bullying in her district, Rep. Michele Bachmann noted, “That’s not a federal issue,” according to CBS News. Previously, Tammy Aaberg, the mother of Justin Aaberg, a gay teen in the Anoka-Hennepin school district who committed suicide after having been bullied in area schools, delivered petitions to Bachmann’s office asking her for support.

• Jamie Hubley

  Jamie Hubley, a gay 15-year-old from Ottawa, Canada, committed suicide Oct. 14. In this clip, the teen performs Mike Posner’s “Cooler Than Me.”

• Hubley Tribute Video

  Friends created a poignant tribute video to Hubley, the Canadian 10th grader who committed suicide on Friday.

Earlier on HuffPost:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/28/zachery-gray-florida-teen-brain-damage-paralyzed-gay-bullying_n_1550440.html

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Visit MeTee.com The place for publishing and printing t-shirts & always free shipping. – Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. As it has become more common in society, particularly among young people, legislation and awareness campaigns have arisen to combat it. The term ‘cyberbullying’ was first coined and defined by Canadian educator and anti-bullying activist Bill Belsey, as ‘the use of informatio

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This is a video is to help raise awareness to all types of bullying whether it is cyberbullying or just plain bullying…. It needs to stop. And It starts with one person! Hope You Like It.

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You can’t help what you don’t know. Increase communication with students and increase school and student safety with the CyberBully Hotline. Meet students where they are and communicate with them on their terms-texting on their cell phones. The CyberBully Hotline is so much more than a phone number. It’s a comprehensive, anti-bullying program consisting of an anonymous, two-way reporting system that students can call or text, school-level and student-level reinforcement materials, and a bully pr

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Brandon DeMarco is an average teenager in an ordinary High School that becomes the target of relentless harassment and vindictive cyberbullying. His story’s been seen by thousands of students all over the globe.

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