Recently, Bilibil, a well-known ** platform, reported a case of "human flesh unboxing" (referring to the use of illegal means to disclose other people's private data and information). According to the report, in August this year, Station B received reports from a number of UP owners, and some groups organized users on overseas platforms to incite users to "open the box" of UP owners on the site, not only disclosing the personal information of UP masters, but also conducting a series of illegal acts such as private message harassment, cyberviolence attacks, and false and malicious reports.
In this regard, the platform and the public security organs have ascertained and confirmed that the cyberviolence infringement case involves 18 provinces and cities, with a total of more than 40 people, and the main activists are minors. One of the minors has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative detention due to the seriousness of the violation. At the same time, the violation will be permanently recorded in their personal file.
"Human flesh" and "unboxing" are associated, and it sounds only violent and hideous, which makes people shudder.
"Doxing" usually refers to "doxing," which is the collection of information about a specific person or event over the internet. Today, however, the era of doxing has passed, replaced by lower-cost, more comprehensive cyber information violence – this is the "unboxing".
"Unboxing", also known as "human flesh unboxing" or "unboxing", refers to the act of disclosing the privacy of others on the Internet, just like opening a Pandora's box. Through a certain network account, you can obtain a series of personal identity information, including ID card number, ** credit report, behavior trajectory and so on.
This kind of typical online violence is not fundamentally different from the previous "human flesh search", both of which are selling information, but in comparison, "human flesh unboxing" is more terrifying. Now, the box opener not only discloses personal information on **, but also carries out a series of harassment, threats, cyber violence attacks and other behaviors on the individual, which brings great pain to the victim.
The act of "human flesh unboxing" seriously disrupts the normal order of the network, ignores the bottom line of morality, causes great harm to the personal safety and mental health of others, and puts anyone in danger.
The UP master of station B tells about the experience of being "unboxed". Source: Beijing News.
Jiupai News once reported on the "execution-style cat abuse" incident of food blogger Jack Spicy Strips, who photographed cat abuse ** and uploaded it to the Internet for sale, which aroused people's attention to the issue of "execution-style animal cruelty". However, this incident also raises another problem - "human flesh unboxing".
According to online rumors, the personal information of a number of celebrities who spoke out for cat abuse and expressed their opposition to "execution-style animal cruelty" was **. On September 4 this year, star Yang Di also posted on social ** that he was "unboxed", his personal information was leaked, and many people called to harass him**, so he had to change his mobile phone number.
Online violence has always been a major public nuisance in cyberspace and has had a bad impact on the social atmosphere. In fact, "human flesh unboxing" has long been not only aimed at celebrities or public figures, more and more ordinary people have also become "victims".
According to Red Star News, Ms. Li (pseudonym) has been working as an anchor for about two years, and in the past year, she has been harassed by a large number of "human flesh searches", including being subjected to **personal privacy information, receiving anonymous emails, and receiving harassment** on public platforms. After being "doxing", Ms. Li once had insomnia, "her mental state was very poor, and she couldn't sleep every day", and she was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, and she is still **. According to Ms. Li's reflection and the reporter's investigation, on overseas software, there is a phenomenon of continuous "human flesh search" of online bloggers in group chats.
Anonymous email received by Ms. Li. Source: Red Star News.
The evil act of cyberbullying "human flesh unboxing" not only broke through the moral bottom line, but also crossed the legal red line.
From a legal point of view, according to the provisions of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, where personality rights are infringed, the victim has the right to request that the perpetrator bear civil liability in accordance with the provisions of this Law and other laws, including stopping the infringement, removing obstacles, eliminating dangers, eliminating impacts, restoring reputation, making formal apologies, etc.
According to the Law of the People's Republic of China on Public Security Administration Punishments, the public security organs may impose administrative penalties on acts that infringe on the privacy, personal information and personal dignity of others. If the act of "opening the box of human flesh" reaches the severity of the criminal law, it may constitute a criminal offense, such as the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information.
On September 25, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Court issued the "Guiding Opinions on Punishing Violations and Crimes of Online Violence in Accordance with Law", which mentions: organizing "doxing" to illegally collect and publish citizens' personal information to an unspecified number of people, where the circumstances are serious and meet the requirements of article 253-1 of the Criminal Law, is to be convicted and punished as the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information.
On November 17, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a document stating that it decided to launch a one-month nationwide special action of "Clear and Clear, Internet Anger Rectification" from now on, especially focusing on the rectification of "Internet toilets" and "unboxing and hanging people".
The scary thing about "doxing out of the box" is that anyone who makes an inappropriate remark on a social platform, disagrees with or conflicts with them, or even just because they are in a bad mood, can be a target for them. These "box openers" will ruthlessly disclose the privacy of others, and carry out endless online violence and life harassment against them.
These unscrupulous actors often do not consider assault, name-calling, yin and yang, and "doxing" (doxing) to be wrong, and rarely see the victim as a three-dimensional, emotional individual.
Instead, they tend to flatten their victims with moral labels and follow the trend of ridicule, referring to doxing as "opening the box" and cyberbullying people as "social workers." These illegal and criminal acts are described as righteous acts that have nothing to do with crime in the online carnival.
Severely punish cyberbullying. Source: Xinhua News Agency.
Of course, behind the opening of the human flesh box, there is also a hidden industrialization problem of personal information leakage, the essence of which is to obtain other people's private information, and then illegally disclose or sell it. Therefore, the discussion of "human flesh unboxing" should focus on how to protect personal information at the source.
In order to solve this problem, a three-pronged approach is needed: first, to improve the public's cyber literacy and enhance the public's awareness of online privacy protection;Second, we will crack down on the gray industry of personal information leakage and increase the punishment for information leakageFinally, it is necessary to correctly guide young people to establish correct values and morals, and cultivate a sense of respect for privacy. Only by eliminating online anger and protecting personal information at the root can we effectively avoid the occurrence of bad behaviors such as "Internet toilets" and "opening boxes and hanging people".
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