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In an "open-box" group of 140,000 people, criminals solicit "insiders". Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Criminals clearly mark the price to provide "unboxing" services. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
In October this year, 13-year-old Lin Jie (not his real name) had his personal information "unboxed", his mobile phone was blown up, text messages were stuffed, and some people threatened to make his parents and teachers "uneasy".
Lin Jie couldn't swallow this breath. In November, he became active in various "open box" groups. As soon as the group owner sends a victim's personal information, he and others will attack him, harass, insult, and abuse him. He regarded this as a kind of "revenge", using the way cyberbullies once treated him, "tooth for tooth", but he never thought that this kind of venting had "hurt the innocent".
It is worth noting that some minors have changed from victims of "opening the box to hanging people" into perpetrators, and these minors trapped in the anger of the Internet urgently need to be "rescued".
On November 17, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued a document deciding to launch a one-month nationwide special action of "Clear and Clear, Rectification of Internet Violence". Focusing on key platform types such as social, short, and live broadcasts, focus on rectifying problems in 7 aspects.
"Internet toilets" and "unboxing and hanging people" are listed in the first place, which refers to the creation of special accounts, post bars, topics, groups, etc., and receive and publish ridicule, malicious evaluations, and curse and abuse information aimed at specific groups or individuals through anonymous contributions, shouting in the air, etc. In the name of exposing and criticizing, maliciously "opening boxes" and "hanging people", disclosing other people's names, ID numbers, mobile phone numbers, home addresses, work units, personal **, social media accounts and other personal privacy information, inciting netizens to attack and abuse. The reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network launched an investigation into this.
The lurking "fun people" attack each other when they disagree.
Previously, a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network joined a group where Lin Jie belonged, a large group of more than 6,000 people, composed of a group of netizens who called themselves "Happy People".
The concept of "fun people" is often used in the online subculture circle to refer to people who watch fun when big events happen. As the number of people gradually increased, they were subdivided into multiple factions, and some people simply watched the excitement, did not participate in the quarrels on the Internet, and did not join in the attacks on individuals;Some people, on the other hand, will act as the leaders in provoking the incident, and gather netizens to personally attack the innocent by "opening the box" to disclose the information of the innocent and using the "Internet toilet" to shout in the air.
Since **blogger Chuan Lie (screen name) has begun to promote anti-fraud and crack down on 'human flesh search' for the sake of account popularity, please hit this hot person!”
In March this year, in the "Leziren" group, someone posted such a message, attaching the **number, social account** and even ID number of Chuan Lie and his family, calling on everyone to "educate" his whole family.
In the eyes of these "fun people", the self-leading bloggers who promote anti-fraud and crack down on "human flesh search" are just to "gain popularity". was "smeared" so indiscriminately, Lin Jie was actually a victim.
Lin Jie once teamed up with a number of netizens to fight together in an online game. Due to poor coordination, the team team lost. Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, but after the game results came out, a teammate suddenly insulted Lin Jie in the chat box, pointing out that he should bear the responsibility for the defeat, and asked him to apologize for his teammates' purchase of game props.
Lin Jie's nonchalant attitude provoked even greater anger from his teammates. "Then you just wait to be 'educated.'" After putting down the cruel words, this teammate "unboxed" Lin Jie's real identity information through his social account, and sent it to the group chats of various game teams, attacking Lin Jie wantonly like the "fun people" did with Chuan Lie.
Lin Jie's social account constantly has strangers bounce messages, harassing or threatening him, if he does not buy game props to apologize, they "will never give up", and some even claim that they will find out Lin Jie's "entire household registration book" and "tell your parents and teachers about your bad deeds".
Lin Jie was unbearable, and in desperation, he took out his New Year's money from his mother, bought a game point card, and bought game props for his teammates by recharging, and the matter was stopped.
"Open the box" to have fun, don't ask whether it's right or wrong.
lost a few hundred yuan for no reason, Lin Jie has always wanted to "get out of this bad breath". Through "Fun Man", he entered one of the information "unboxing" groups, which opened the door to a bizarre situation.
In the group, these people don't ask right or wrong, just to "open the box" for fun. The group owner updates the real information of many people in the group every day, and these group members don't even care about the "unboxing" reason written by the group leader, like robots under command, they all brush up and "point where to hit", and continue to hurt innocents with malicious remarks.
Because they both love anime, Huang Sen (screen name) and many netizens follow each other on social **. She often shares her daily life and thoughts on the Internet, but she did not expect to encounter a malicious attack on the "Internet toilet".
Two months ago, Huang Sen's mother celebrated her birthday, and she drew a picture for her mother and took a picture of it on the Internet. This ** was seen by a netizen and shared Huang Sen's Weibo to a "Internet toilet" group. Soon, Huang Sen's comment area was occupied by yin and yang weird comments, "If you are happy, you don't have to come to the Internet to post the little sister." They felt that Huang Sen was flaunting his own happiness and laughing at the misfortunes of others.
I didn't know ** messed with them. According to Huang Sen's observation, the group of netizens who attacked her came from the "Internet toilet" (hereinafter referred to as the "original toilet") with the pain of the original family as the theme of discussion.
Users of "original toilet", calling themselves "toilet sister" and "toilet brother", use the online language of "leopard leopard" and "cat cat" to replace the title of father and mother, and behind the seemingly warm words, there is a misfortune from the original family: they discuss fragmented family relationships, complaining that they do not get the love and attention of their parents and family ......
Toilet girls" and "toilet brothers" relieve anxiety and resentment by finding more people with the same experience on the Internet;At the same time, he openly vented his anger about unsatisfactory life, but he didn't care that it would hurt more innocent people.
Be wary of the victim becoming the perpetrator.
Alarmingly, minors can be victims of online violence as well as perpetrators of violence.
Chuan Lie told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network that in his private messages from the backstage, many people were complaining to him and asking for help. What worries him is that many people will be like Lin Jie, like Lin Jie, who have no way to seek help after discovering that they have been deceived and "opened the box", "Their mentality is 'others open me, then I will also open others'."
Lin Jie, who is purely to vent his emotions, obviously lacks the ability to distinguish the people who are "hanged" out of the group. He also doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with what he did, but instead calls this kind of behavior "righteous unboxing": "The people who are 'unboxed' in the group are either nosy on the Internet or have bad morals, and they need us to 'rectify and regulate'." ”
On November 17, the ** platform Bilibili reported the "human flesh unboxing" incident involving many up masters such as Chuan Lie. According to the report, the public security organs have ascertained that the cyberviolence infringement case involves 18 provinces and cities, with a total of more than 40 people. The main participants are minors L and C. Among them, L was sentenced to 10 days of administrative detention due to the seriousness of the illegal facts. Accompanied by his guardian, the public security organs severely criticized and educated him in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China".
*After the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a document to clean up the "Internet toilets" and "open the box and hang people", the "fun people" of many "open box" groups became silent, and some group owners claimed that "the wind is tight now" and "business is suspended".
Now, Lin Jie has withdrawn from these "open box" groups, and he is about to take the high school entrance examination to wake up to the fact that he has more important things to complete, and he must take a good road in the future.
Huang Sen turned on the platform's "one-click protection" function and refused to accept private messages and comments. She felt that the malice of some people on the Internet towards her was more like an outlet for some unhealthy emotions than a denial of herself.