Recently, the Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security reported a typical case of Internet celebrities provoking trouble. Zhang Meili (screen name, account has been closed), an online anchor in Suide, Shaanxi Province, quickly became popular on the Internet after insulting his mother during a live broadcast. Zhang Meili also pretended to be crazy and stupid during the live broadcast, and used the Internet to create topics to abuse and insult others at will.
html On December 2, Zhang Meili was arrested by the Suide County Public Security Bureau on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Five people involved in hiring Zhang Meili to conduct vulgar live broadcasts were administratively punished in accordance with the law. As early as October 20, 2023, the Suide County Public Security Bureau issued a notice to publicly solicit clues about Zhang Meili’s illegal crimes, including arbitrarily insulting others, eating Overlord meals, taking transportation without paying, forced advertising, and other illegal crimes. behavioral cues.
Recently, many internet celebrities have been investigated for picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
Involving insulting others, disturbing public order, etc.
Red Star News reporters found that recently, police in many places have released cases of internet celebrities suspected of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Among them, illegal internet celebrities were involved in insults. Illegal behaviors such as disturbing others and disrupting public order have a negative impact on society.
wrote in a typical case reported by the Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security that Zhang Meili (screen name, account has been closed), an online anchor in Suide, Shaanxi Province, quickly became popular on the Internet after insulting his mother during the live broadcast. In the process, he pretended to be crazy and used the Internet to create topics to abuse and insult others at will. As the net worth of Internet celebrities continues to increase, this Internet celebrity regards himself as the spokesperson of Suide. Not only does he eat "overlord meals", but he also takes transportation without payment, forcibly advertises, insults others at will, and uses force to pick fights and cause trouble.
▲Zhang Meili Pictures According to Shaanxi Internet Police
During this period, some online anchors in Yulin hired Zhang Meili to live broadcast maliciously tease Zhang Meili and make vulgar and indecent videos with Zhang Meili in order to increase their followers and sell goods and make money. Zhang Meili’s live video was reposted and clicked to watch by many people, and related vulgar live broadcast screen recordings and short videos were viewed 1.725 million times.
Zhang Meili's actions seriously violate social order and good customs, challenge the bottom line of social morality, disrupt public order, and have extremely bad social impact. His actions have constituted a crime. On February 2, 2024, Zhang Meili was arrested by the Suide County Public Security Bureau on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Five people involved in hiring Zhang Meili for vulgar live broadcasts were administratively punished in accordance with the law.
On December 18, 2023, the Yulin Public Security High-tech Bureau investigated and dealt with a case of provoking trouble on a live broadcast platform in accordance with the law. Guo Moumou, the user of a live broadcast platform account "Doudou Ge 521", recently broadcast live at the opening event of a company in Yulin Science and Technology Innovation City. During the live broadcast, he made indecent gestures towards the posters and insulted others in the live broadcast room, attracting a large number of netizens to watch, and the impact was very bad. Currently, Guo Moumou has been administratively detained in accordance with the law.
On January 15, 2024, the police in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province announced that in order to "attract fans", a local man took a vulgar video and published it by challenging fans to leave messages, which disrupted public order. He was detained administratively for 15 days on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
The information released by the police stated that Yuan is a fan of a certain video platform. In order to achieve the purpose of "becoming an Internet celebrity", he adopted the method of challenging fans to leave messages to shoot and publish videos in order to gain attention and attract attention.
After investigation by the police, it was found that the video posted by the Internet celebrity included "Going to a hospital in Zhaotong City for a urine test and drinking the urine to be tested (actually a drink)", "Scumbag man asking for a slap in the face and being rewarded with 10 yuan" and "With pigs" "Eating and sleeping together" and a series of low-grade illegal prank videos that violate social ethics, violate public order and good customs, and disrupt social order.
In the end, Yuan Moumou was sentenced to administrative detention for 15 days.
Experts believe that online picking quarrels and provoking troubles have a bad impact
The platform should eliminate bad Internet celebrities as soon as possible
Fu Jian, director of Henan Zejin Law Firm, believes that one of the elements of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles is that the perpetrator "repeatedly chased, intercepted, abused, and intimidated Others, causing bad social impact." Zhang Meili insulted others at will in the live broadcast room many times, causing extremely bad effects in cyberspace. Cyberspace is not a lawless place, and open online live broadcast rooms with a certain number of views can also constitute In public places, the negative impact is no less than offline. Therefore, we must also have legal awareness and pay attention to our words and deeds in cyberspace, and we must not think that we can evade legal sanctions because of "cyber virtuality".
Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, told Red Star News reporters that there are special features of Internet celebrities involved in the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. "The crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles is divided into two types: online and offline. The special thing about Internet celebrities involved in the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles is that they may shoot some short videos or live broadcasts, and the content of the short videos or live broadcasts itself is the content of picking quarrels and provoking troubles."
▲Picture of Zhang Meili According to Shaanxi Internet Police
Zhu Wei, judging from the content of the report, Zhang Meili mainly used the content of provoking troubles as a drainage outlet. And there are several people planning behind it. This situation is becoming more and more common on the Internet. Some Internet celebrities, under the banner of so-called positive energy, are actually engaging in provocative and trouble-making behaviors. For example, extortion, cheating, or acting out a script, but netizens will one-sidedly believe that their actions have a certain degree of justice. In fact, this kind of behavior of Internet celebrities has a particularly bad impact both offline and online. This influence is to promote a culture called "retaliation", which is also a culture of online violence that provokes harassment and war. Because most of the content spread is either vulgar or spreads a kind of online hostility.
Zhu Wei analyzed that the main reason for the frequent occurrence of this phenomenon is that Internet celebrities lack the sustainability of traffic and need to attract traffic through some suspected provocation and troublemaking behaviors, because some offline provocations and troublemaking behaviors are moved online It can cater to the curiosity of some audiences and catch people's attention. It is the cheapest, fastest and most effective way to attract fans. In particular, some of the first generation Internet celebrities have focused on rumors, slanderous information, incitement and war, and other behaviors that may be suspected of provoking quarrels and troubles. They have moved their offline attention-grabbing behavior to online, or artificially directed some related activities. Video to attract traffic. The bad radiation effects and impact effects caused are very obvious.
Zhu Wei believes that the most important thing to manage this phenomenon is that each platform must professionally manage Internet celebrities, because the above-mentioned Internet celebrities do not have the ability to sustainably obtain traffic and attract fans, which will cause great harm to the platform. Big safety hazard. Therefore, these Internet celebrities should be eliminated as soon as possible. The faster the transformation is completed, the better it is for the platform economy. The development of traffic economy to this day is actually a process of subtraction and intensive farming.
