Cyber-bullying is described as “the use of information and communication technologies, such as e-mail, cellphone, pager, text messages, instant messaging, and websites to support deliberately repeated and hostile behaviour that is intended to harm others.

Hélène Goudin and Nils Lundgren (IND/DEM ), in writing (SV) We believe that the initiative by, for example, the Swedish Government on the retention of data processed and stored in connection with the provision of services such as telephone communications, text messaging, e-mail and the Internet etc for the purpose of combating terrorism and other cross-border crimes goes much too far in relation to the expected benefits.

Hélène Goudin and Nils Lundgren (IND/DEM), in writing (SV) We believe that the initiative by, for example, the Swedish Government on the retention of data processed and stored in connection with the provision of services such as telephone communications, text messaging, e-mail and the Internet etc for the purpose of combating terrorism and other cross-border crimes goes much too far in relation to the expected benefits.

There is now even text-messaging spam, at considerable cost to cell phone owners.

My son has text messaging on his machine and he is just an ordinary guy.

In recent days we have once again suffered – as also happened during the committee procedure and as also happened in this House in the case of the Van Lancker report – the bombardment of our e-mail systems with messages which have always been threatening, aggressive, laden with insults and furthermore always, without exception, lacking in arguments or a rigorous analysis of the content of the report, which is solely attributed with the aim of imposing mass sterilisations, and I will read out a fragment of an e-mail I have received: 'If this report is approved, the European Union would become one of the major promoters of abortion and the ...[+++] culture of death, and its approval would mean accepting the annihilation of the poor'.