fake photos are particularly challenging... Nowadays, some online "self-media" bloggers are breaking through the bottom line in order to increase traffic and attract followers. In Nantong, Jiangsu, a man named Ji tried to gain attention through vulgar swear words and was eventually sentenced.
Gain traffic by swearing
Immediately after swearing, he sent a private message to the other party asking for cooperation
"South Square and North Square, I almost sent you xxx. As soon as the firecrackers were set off, relatives and friends called out."
The man who gritted his teeth and cursed was named Ji. A certain person, whose online name is "Qin Han", is full of obscene swear words in most of the videos he releases.
Ji believes that he can increase his own fan traffic by insulting anchors with many fans, and he continues to sensationalize with the idea that "black and red" are also red. When some local Internet celebrities live broadcast, Ji will chase them and start a scolding battle with them, trying to increase their popularity and get rewards through this method.
added fuel to the attack and cursed wantonly. Ji's mouth was full of swear words, confusing right and wrong. Faced with doubts and reports from netizens, he actually regarded these as opportunities to increase his popularity.
In order to achieve the purpose of monetizing traffic, Ji constantly updated insulting videos. But in private, he tried to communicate with the insulted bloggers and invited them to work together to generate traffic in the name of hype. Faced with Ji's invitation to perform, many bloggers did not reply, and some politely declined.
But Ji immediately promoted his "black and red" routine, saying that what he wanted to create was a "unique character, first black and then white." Ji said that if the blogger on the other side of the chat box was unmoved, he would send a private message to the next person.
The client was prosecuted for the crime of insult.
was sentenced to 8 months in prison and his account was banned.
Ji's vulgar behavior of using "black and red" tricks to find people to cooperate with to attract traffic not only did not make him "popular", but instead trapped himself in a cocoon and shouldered the relevant legal obligations. as a result of.
In June 2023, after receiving a large number of reports from netizens and the public, Nantong police opened a case for investigation on Ji's suspicion of provoking quarrels and provoking trouble, and requested the procuratorial organs to intervene in accordance with the law. After review, it was found that a video in the season insulted a total of 7 people, all of whom were people with certain Internet influence in the region. The videos totaled 45 and were disseminated more than 620,000 times.
The "Guiding Opinions on Punishing Illegal Crimes of Internet Violence in accordance with the Law" jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Public Security clearly states that using methods such as wanton abuse, malicious slander, and disclosure of privacy on the information network to openly insult others, If the circumstances are serious and comply with the provisions of Article 246 of the Criminal Law, the offender shall be convicted and punished for the crime of insult.
After learning about the relevant circumstances of the case, the local procuratorate analyzed that: Ji's behavior not only blatantly damaged the personality rights and reputation rights of the seven victims, but also these insulting videos were spread on the Internet, which had a bad impact and should be punished as an insult. Prosecution.
In March this year, the Haimen District People’s Court of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province held a public hearing on the case. The court held that the defendant Ji, in order to increase network traffic and attention, provoked everywhere on the Internet, arbitrarily abused and maliciously slandered many people. The circumstances were serious, endangering social order, and constituted the crime of insult. Considering that he truthfully confessed his crime after being brought to justice and signed a confession of guilt and punishment, the verdict was pronounced in court in accordance with the law:
The defendant Ji was guilty of the crime of insult and was sentenced to 8 months in prison with a suspended sentence of 1 year;
The defendant Ji was prohibited from committing the crime. A certain person was engaged in business activities related to online live broadcasting during the probation period, and his Douyin account was also banned.
Platforms must strengthen information review, supervision and management
Netizens should take the initiative to complain and report vulgar videos
Starting from April 23 this year, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China launched a two-month nationwide "Clear Clarification and Rectification of 'We Media' Bottomless Gambling" The special action "Traffic" focuses on prominent issues such as "self-media" creating hot spots without a bottom line and creating "information traps" in which falsehoods are confused with truths and falsehoods are mixed with truths.Since the launch of the special operation, batches of “self-media” that violate laws and regulations have been banned or even punished by law.
How should the platform supervise and manage bloggers who use improper means to chase traffic? How to effectively regulate the transmission chain of bottomless gambling traffic by blocking it?
Wu Shenkuo, deputy director of the China Internet Society Research Center, believes that the platform needs to strengthen information auditing, proactively discover and deal with inappropriate content, and block the transmission chain of bottomless blogging traffic:
uses effective technology and algorithms to detect abnormal situations in a timely manner. , deal with it as soon as possible;
increase investment in manpower inspections to discover and deal with illegal phenomena;
should have a faster response mechanism when accepting and handling complaints and reports to reduce the negative consequences of such phenomena.
experts also pointed out that for such short video bloggers who have no bottom line to gain traffic, the Internet is not only a "venting place" but also a "business place". If they want to prevent them from having a "market" on the Internet, When netizens come across such eye-catching bloggers, they can press the button to report them, so that such vulgar videos lose their chance to survive.
The Internet is by no means a place outside the law.
The public should use the Internet in accordance with the law, regulations and rationality.
Do not attempt to break the bottom line for traffic.
Source: CCTV News WeChat official account
