{{British Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Internet users to boycott certain social networking sites, after a teenage girl who was bullied online committed suicide.}}<\/p>\n
Cameron on Thursday described the death of 14-year-old Hannah Smith, who hanged herself last week after receiving abuse on the website ask.fm, as \u2018\u2019absolutely tragic\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
“There’s something all of us can do as parents and as users of the Internet and that is not to use some of these vile sites,” Cameron told Sky News television.<\/p>\n
Cameron also urged website operators to do more to stop them from being used as forums for bullying.<\/p>\n
“The people that operate these websites have got to step up to the plate and show some responsibility in the way that they run these websites,” he said.<\/p>\n
Some charities in Britain have called for tighter regulation of social networks.<\/p>\n
Internet abuse has hit the headlines in Britain in recent weeks after several women, including two lawmakers, received rape and death threats on Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u2018True tragedy\u2019<\/p>\n
Ask.fm has described Hannah’s suicide as a “true tragedy” and pledged to work with police investigating her death.<\/p>\n
It stressed that it encourages users and their parents to report any bullying.<\/p>\n
The website, which is popular amongst teenagers, has a question-and-answer format and allows users to post messages without their identity being disclosed.<\/p>\n
The ninth most popular social networking site in the world created in 2010 and based in Latvia, has 13.2 million daily users.<\/p>\n
Source: {Al Jazeera and agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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