Online trolling and cyberbullying have become common in today’s world where anonymous account users target others on social networking sites and send out hate comments. Mostly, these online trollers target famous personalities like Bollywood celebrities and spread hatred against them. To fight this trolling trend and spread awareness against cyberbullying, actress Sonakshi Sinha has now teamed up with Maharashtra Polices’ ‘Mission Josh’ and a few other cyber experts to put a full stop on cyberbullying with her campaign, ‘Full stop to cyberbullying’.
Sonakshi is one of the many actresses, who has faced trolling, body shaming and online bullying for the longest time now. Recently, Sonakshi had to go off her Twitter to avoid the negativity that was being sent her way via online trollers. In 2019 the online trollers had relentlessly targeted her for not being able to answer a Ramayan related question on the sets of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. Ridiculing the actresses by mean memes on ‘low IQ’, ‘product of Nepotism’, star kid etc memers had gone after Sonakshi. The actress, however, had given a befitting reply to all but it made her felt the need for such an initiative and with this initiative, Sonakshi hopes to create some positivity online.
So to fight cyberbullying and harassment, Sonakshi has now teamed up with experts and is spreading awareness to curb this trend.
Recently, Sonakshi took to her social media handle to share a video where she could be seen raising her voice against Cyber Bullying and harassment. In the video, she also shared that she is teaming up with Maharashtra Police for an initiative called ‘Mission Josh’ wherein they will raise awareness about online bullying, mental health, harassment and more.
Sonakshi shared the video along with a captioned that read, “AB BAS! It’s time to stop the pandemic that’s plaguing our online world- Cyber Bullying and harassment. Full Stop To Cyber Bullying is a campaign by Mission Josh, where I have teamed up with Special IGP Mr Pratap Dighavkar with an aim to create awareness and educate people about online harassment, trolls, impact on mental health of victims who have faced trolling. Ab bas, NO more online harassment!.”
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The actress further said, “Social media was made with the intention to spread love and positivity. Unfortunately, it has become a toxic place with the rampant rise of cyberbullying and mental harassment. I have been a victim of trolls and abuses myself. With mission Josh, our campaign aims to bring awareness to cyberbullying, online trolling, cyber laws, and mental harassment. Special IGP of Maharashtra Police Dr. Pratap Dighavkar and I will be talking to experts and show insights about the issues a lot of us have been facing and spread the message of cyber virus that is around us.”
The aim of this campaign is to spread more awareness towards the subject and to other important aspects of online trolling so that the memers, trollers, harassers, bullies are aware of the consequences as well as legal actions that can be taken against them for committing any kind of Cyber harassment while sitting behind the screen. The first interaction under this campaign is all set to air on July 26.
