Online avengers’ cyber bullying breaks law

A WOMAN IN CHONGQING attempted suicide, because she could no longer bear the endless harassment, humiliation and even physical threats from fans of a novelist, whose network fiction she had criticized. Beijing News comments:

This is the latest case of online victimization. Last month a woman in Deyang, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, killed herself because she could not tolerate netizens’ harassment and insults after her husband slapped a 13-year-old boy in the face in a swimming pool, as the boy verbally abused her after physical contact that she wanted an apology for.

The two cases show how such cyber bullying can cause tremendous and eventually unbearable mental pressure for the victims. These online “avengers” think that what they are doing is serving justice, but in fact the opposite is true.

In the first place, they are not legally entitled to subject their targets to their vitriol, even if their victims are not innocent. Sometimes, the online mob is easily influenced by a kind of infectious emotion, and fail to see the whole picture. 关闭播放量(guānbì bōfàngliàng)

Video streaming platform iQiyi has announced it will stop displaying a video's play count, in order to curb the unhealthy play count competition among various video streaming platforms. iQiyi plans to replace the play count with a new index "content heat", which will evaluate the popularity of

For instance, in the swimming pool skirmish, the boy’s parents first uploaded a processed video clip showing the man slapped the boy, titled “civil servant beats a boy”, without putting it into context and giving the whole story.

The public security and internet administrative departments are obliged to prevent the tyranny of the mob being unleashed online by dealing heavy blows against witch hunters, whose activities can earn them up to three years in prison according to the Criminal Law.

An important reason why the victims of cyber violence find it so unbearable is because it is difficult for them to defend their rights if they cannot identify their persecutors. Those who are victims of cyber bullying should pay attention to collecting evidence, and turn to the police for help.

Play count shut down

videos based on user discussion, interaction and click rate.

As the play count is always regarded as an index to reflect whether a video is popular among the public, video streaming platforms as well as video production companies always resort to unhealthy or false measures to pursue a high video play count.

It is a positive move for iQiyi to recognize this problem and voluntarily make some changes. But there is still much that needs to be done to get rid of the click rate-oriented mindset in the video production and video streaming industry. Content producers and video streaming platforms should provide more quality video products. And the audience should pay more attention to the quality of videos and support quality work on the platform to promote a virtuous circle.

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