Many Hong Kong people should still remember the 18-year-old girl Lei Yingshen (net name: Yi Nai) who unfortunately fell to her death a few months ago.
During her lifetime, she was subjected to continuous cyberbullying by a group of netizens who called themselves "toilet girls". She was so disturbed that she eventually collapsed.
This is a very sad story.
What a young and fresh life, but it was swallowed by the stinking cyber violence.
Following Lei Yingchen, there was a tragedy in the mainland that caused depression and death due to cyberbullying.
The protagonist of the story is Zheng Linghua, a 24-year-old "pink-haired girl" in Hangzhou.
In July last year, after the success of the graduate school, she shared the joy with her grandfather in front of her grandfather's hospital bed with the postgraduate admission notice and took photos.
In the photo, she dyed her hair pink. It is said that she hoped that she would be bright and colorful in her graduation photo, but unexpectedly, after the photo was released on the Internet, she was slandered and insulted very maliciously and without reason.
Some people made rumors that she and her grandfather were "old and young lovers", some people threw out "a graduate student who dyed his hair like a bartender" bizarre remarks, and some marketing accounts took the opportunity to fabricate absurd stories.
The cyberbullying incident caused her a lot of trouble. She suffered from depression and passed away recently.
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The "pink-haired girl" tried to defend her rights through legal channels during her lifetime.
On the one hand, she records and collects the comments of cyberbullyers, and on the other hand, she complains to the platform.
But just like the dilemma of rights protection in similar cases, because most of the cyberbullyers are anonymous on the Internet, it is difficult to track and obtain evidence, so that until the moment of her unfortunate death, her rights protection was unsuccessful.
At the beginning of last year, the Liu Xuezhou case, which caused a sensation in mainland society, was also a case closely related to cyber violence.
Liu Xuezhou was originally an unfortunate teenager in his teens. Since the end of 2021, he has been looking for relatives online, but he has repeatedly suffered verbal violence from Internet trolls.
Later, he committed suicide by taking medicine for depression, and cyber violence was mentioned in his suicide note.
From Lei Yingchen, "Pink-haired Girl" to Liu Xuezhou, all of them are in their youth. There are many possibilities in life, but unfortunately they all wither, which makes people sad and angry.
Behind them is the problem of cyber violence that has been harmful for a long time.
Their stories are in the newspapers, but there are many unpublished incidents of cyberbullying.
I believe that many people will have a similar experience: when they post a relatively normal message on social media that can be discussed, it attracts some inexplicable abusive messages, which are full of incomprehensible malice.
What happened to the online world?
Why are there so many unprovoked verbal violence?
Why are there such existences as "toilet girl, toilet brother"?
Who are those netizens who are full of filth on the Internet, maliciously abuse and spread rumors about others?
Liu Xuezhou.
(Weibo@covernews)
It is said that the "pink-haired girl" once summed up the commonality of some cyberbullyers: "Some do not understand the whole picture at all, some are unsatisfactory in real life, want to take the opportunity to vent their emotions, and some even want to make money." Here are three types: Follow the trend and attack others without knowing the truth; take personal revenge and vent emotions because of unsatisfactory life; use Internet violence as a password to get rich from traffic.
In fact, this all points to the darkness of human nature, but it is only magnified by the virtuality of the Internet.
Professor Luo Xiang from China University of Political Science and Law in "Details of the Rule of Law︱ In the face of cyber violence, is the law really helpless?"
"In the analysis, it said: "
In the Internet age, we seem to have gradually lost our understanding of complex emotions and the plight of others. Empty and superficial, and ultimately lead to extreme views and brutal emotions... We People’s emotions are easily aroused by extreme opinions, and they are increasingly inclined to make black and white judgments on others; and such emotions and judgments will stab individuals in the whirlpool of public opinion like sharp knives.
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The online violence that exists like a ghost is reminiscent of Harvard University professor Philip Alden Kuhn's analysis in "Soul-calling: The Great Panic of Chinese Sorcery in 1768": "The scare of calling the soul was highlighted to observers of Chinese society. A particularly sad phenomenon: hostility in the form of retribution for grievances everywhere in society. The ghost case has this unpleasant feature from the beginning... What's more, they fabricated a The stories people believed... once the government seriously launched a crackdown on sorcery, ordinary people have a good opportunity to settle old grievances or seek personal gain."
If we say that the Soul Calling case was the conspiracy of a few people with ulterior motives and the suspicious government, using the hostility and superstition among people prevailing in the society at that time, then the repeated prohibition of cyber violence is because of a small number of people with ulterior motives
( Including marketing accounts that earn traffic, selfish revengers who instigate opposition) take advantage of the dark psychology of many netizens who do not know the truth but are willing to follow suit and maliciously speculate.
From this point of view, in response to the problem of cyber violence that has plagued the society for a long time, it is necessary to crack down on the legal and network platform norms, and especially focus on punishing those netizens who use cyber violence for personal gain, marketing accounts and private retaliation , but also try to think about the corresponding solutions to the darkness of human nature and the virtual reality of the online world.
After all, people all over the world have suffered from cyber violence for a long time. If cyber violence cannot be curbed from the source, and if effective relief cannot be provided to those who have been hurt by cyber violence, then it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no distressing incidents in the future. tragedy.
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