Stalking Amanda: A Man in the Shadows, a true crime-style documentary from CBC’s Fifth Estate, retells the story of Amanda Todd. Your story is related to a story you have heard many times before. In fact, since the dawn of the PC era, we’ve heard horror stories and warnings about why it’s not safe for young girls to chat with older men, and dating these men is especially dangerous.
However, technology and the dangers that young girls like Amanda face have evolved over time. The ability to take a screenshot, or what is sometimes called a screenshot, and anyone’s ability to be who they want online, is a persistent tool used by Internet predators for decades and has been the weapon of choice used against Amanda. Todd. She was blackmailed and blackmailed at the hands of an older man who lived practically on the other side of the world and is now being labeled as a bully, but viewers who watched Stalking Amanda may feel that maybe it’s time, not all teen assault cases To call bully.
Bullying has serious consequences, but when a man is blackmailing minors around the world and distributing images of child pornography he blackmails, maybe it’s time to consider how he’s aligned with those who insult others based on sexual orientation, social interaction, etc. The insecure teen belongs to a different league class, race or whatever he thinks is enough to bring the victim down to an inferiority level.
Like most cases of extreme bullying, Amanda’s story has a fatal end, and this is where parallels can be drawn. They can also be drawn on a more obvious level, based on Amanda’s on-screen interactions with her abuser. The lack of police action in many of the countries this abuser intends to attack reflects parallels on multiple levels that will vary depending on your perspective as a viewer based on things like where you live places and your messages, and your interactions with other people. You get what you want out of it, which is ironic because stalking Amanda is largely objective.
Revisiting conversations with Amanda’s parents, subtle replays, documents from an official Facebook investigation (which, based on the evidence released in this documentary, is more thorough than investigations by the Netherlands or the RCMP) and reports, the case appears to be in harmony with Amanda’s. Friends who will get through all the difficulties together. Awareness drives all action, and awareness comes from information. Following Amanda: Men in the Shadows is informative, factual, and newsworthy; even today.
