Govt speeds cyber bullying laws

Offenders face three months' jail or $2000 fine for using communications device to cause harm. Inciting someone to commit suicide will be punishable with up to three years in jail under tough new cyber-bullying laws to be unveiled today. The new laws, fast-tracked by Justice Minister Judith Collins after a Herald campaign to "stop the bullying" last year, will also create a new offence of using a communications device to cause harm, punishable with up to three months in jail or a $2000 fine. The Cabinet has adopted proposals put up by the Law...