Now the Bullies Can Follow our Kids Home

Bullying has always been an issue on which I've had lots of perspective.  In elementary school, I was pretty heavily bullied for being weird. I just wasn't like other boys my age, and it made me feel terrible about myself. I tried being nice, but I was never able to make any friends.
In middle school, I made sure things were different. I became the thing that I hated the most: a bully. I would love to make fun of other kids behind their backs, and tease. I was really good at making a person sounds stupid. Ever since, I have been very conscious of bullying and ways to so it. However, even for kids back then, one thing made bullying bearable: it stopped when you went home.
Home used to be a place where bullied kids could get solace from their demons. However, with a new trend called cyberbullying,  the bullies can now follow their victims into their homes and continue to torment them. Cyberbullying is when a child torments or bullies a peer through any form of technology. Be it instant message, Facebook comments, or text messages, any form of social technology gives kids the opportunity to torment others. This can make being a bullied child absolutely unbearable. Anytime you turn on a screen, you see a reminder of your unpopularity.
This trend of digital tormenting has gone so far as to include a new term: cyberstalking. Now, if someone is exhibiting a pattern of threatening or unwanted behaviors exclusively through computer mediated communications,  it is known as cyberstalking. When one is this tormented by another through CMC,  it can be hard to have peace of mind, or even feel safe.
But what are we as humans supposed to do in order to prevent these kinds of acts? There are already laws against harassment and stalking, so should cyberbullying be treated any differently? In 2009, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act was introduced, but has since never gained much traction. The act proposes a law under which it would be a felony to send any digital communication with the intent to cause "substantial emotional distress." Until the act, or another like it gets some recognition, it seems like cyberbullying is just something we're going to have to deal with. However, individual websites are taking some measures in order to mitigate the effects or harshness of hateful words.
With a process called disemvowling,  websites can automatically censor or remove the vowels from certain key words. Example: sht or sh*t,  fck or f*ck. With this technique, the message is still able to come across, but feels less harsh for the recipient. Ultimately, the process doesn't do much to mitigate cyberbullying. However, it's all we have currently.
What do you think? Should there be more laws preventing cyberbullying? How can we enforce that law? Would creating such a law infringe upon our rights to free speech? What are some other ways individual companies and websites can mitigate cyberbullying or prevent it altogether? Until we figure out ways to solve this problem, kids will continue to be bullied-- even after they get home.