{"id":612,"date":"2024-04-09T03:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/topic\/cyber-bullying-the-tort-of-intimidation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:58:05","slug":"the-tort-of-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/topic\/cyberbullying\/the-tort-of-intimidation\/","title":{"rendered":"The tort of intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tort of intimidation covers cases in which  harm is inflicted on the victim when the accused intimidates the plaintiff or a  third person, and the plaintiff or third person is compelled to act or refrain  from acting to obey the demands of the accused. It is an inexact remedy for  victims of cyberbullying, as there must be evidence of intention to coerce the  person to whom the threat is addressed into doing or not doing a specified act.  Simply contacting the victim, sending damaging or demeaning messages, or  spreading untruths is not of itself coercion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tort of intimidation covers cases in which harm is inflicted on the victim when the accused intimidates the plaintiff or a third person, and the plaintiff or third person is compelled to act or refrain from acting to obey the demands of the accused. It is an inexact remedy for victims of cyberbullying, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic-type":[9],"class_list":["post-612","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-type-cyberbullying"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-type?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}