Hong Kong broadcaster TVB takes cyberbullying allegations to police, citing online 'threats and intimidation' | South China Morning Post


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Hong Kong's biggest free-to-air television broadcaster, TVB , has filed a police report alleging cyberbullying at the hands of netizens it says launched an online smear campaign against the station, its advertisers and artists. In a statement issued on Tuesday morning, TVB decried what it called the "harassment, molestation, pestering, threats and intimidation" employed in attempting to launch a boycott of the broadcaster and those buying ad time on it. "This cyberbullying behaviour may cause psychological or property damage to these parties and subsequently lead to social unrest," it said without disclosing the specifics of their report. "To protect TVB…