Current Measures for Handling Cyber Bullying and Its Path to the Rule of Law: Based on a Comparative Study

The third technological revolution and the vigorous development of the Internet industry have made it easy for people to obtain information and publish news on the Internet. While Internet penetration continues to reach new highs, so do incidents of cyber bullying. From "a woman was subjected to rumors and cyberbullying just for picking up a courier" to "Xuezhou Liu, a boy looking for relatives, committed suicide", there are countless tragedies caused by cyber bullying. Since 2008, all sectors of society have been continuously studying the issue of cyber bullying, and until 2024, there are countless studies on cyber bullying, mainly in journalism, sociology, political science, law, education and psychology, etc., with a wide range of research topics. In this context, this study will compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Chinese and foreign measures for dealing with cyber bullying and the path of rule of law, and fill in the lack of boundaries between cyber violence and ordinary violence in criminal law theory.