UN: Cyber violence is equivalent to physical violence

whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!"

To be fair, I'm sure there are pretty severe cases of online harassment that can have serious effects... but this sort of wording:

The report also argues that "cyber touch is recognized as equally as harmful as physical touch," suggesting that online harassment might be just as lethal as domestic violence or sexual abuse.

or "Cyber violence is equivalent to physical violence" from the title of the Time article, seems to have divorced itself from widely accepted objective reality.

May be a case of any publicity is good publicity.

Cyber "violence" can be avoided by walking away from your fucking computer.

North Korea is testing nukes and the UN is sitting around debating "cyber bulling", makes sense though. I mean Kim Jon Un may have several actual nukes but he has and endless supply of "cyber-nukes" that can set off flame wars all over Reddit.

I'm not going to sit around here and say that cyberbullying is not a problem (though, the government has no place enforcing laws against it, except in extreme cases such as stalking, etc.) but it's not violence and it's not as bad as violence.