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This article was first published on the tiger sniff young content public account "That NG" (ID: huxiu4youth). Here, we present the face, stories and attitudes of today's young people.
Evil is much closer to us than we think.
Half a month ago, the public account "Female Guest at No. 9 Julu Road", a girl's self-report, once again verified this sentence.
"Hello little sister, some of your photos have been sent to some yy groups, remind you."
On Christmas Day, the girl received a private message from a strange boy on Weibo.
Following the link provided by the boy, she entered a group called "Staring Group" on the extranet and found herself the object of sexual immorality in this group.
In the "staring group" with more than 7,000 members, users send photos of different girls every day, some are private photos, and more are just ordinary photos common to Weibo and circle of friends.
Picture 丨 "The murderer who personally sent me into Room N is a 6-year friend of 985 University"
These girls are their friends, girlfriends, roommates, wives, and even teachers, students, and mothers in their lives. They called it a "betrayal," a "sacrifice," and some said it was a "benefit" given to the brothers.
If the group members are satisfied with it, they will return with foul language and use words and actions from various love action movies to show "respect".
The girl found that her life photos posted on Weibo and in the circle of friends were uploaded more than 400 times in this group. Through her avatar and username, she locked the uploader, who was a male friend who had known each other for 6 years and also graduated from a 985 college.
The girl contacted the man's ex-girlfriend and found that there were other victimized women 丨 "The murderer who personally sent me into Room N is a 6-year friend of 985 University"
"He's from a well-off family, he's personally good, and his girlfriends are well-behaved and upright." Just the day before the incident, the girl was still wishing him a smooth examination.
This is not two years ago, nor is it the other side of the ocean.
It happened half a month ago, all around us.
Even when the girl exposed the incident, she was overseas, it was difficult to supervise, and the members of the "staring group" did not decrease but increased, from more than 7,000 people to more than 8,000 people, and the new members giggled and popped out news screenshots, laughing that "it is to watch the news."
Their gathering place is still the anonymous online social networking software that was exposed in the Room N incident a few years ago.
The exposure of a room N is not the eradication of Internet pornography abuse, but the crazy growth of thousands of room N in the shadows.
"Nonconsensual Porn," "the act of secretly photographing, stealing, and sending exposed images of victims to public communities when the victim does not agree, or should reasonably know that the victim does not agree"—in short, posting someone else's private photos online for sexual obscenity—is becoming the fastest soaring means of "sexual violence" in the world in the past two years.
Unlike the actual atrocities of open fire, the "non-consent to online pornography" that is quietly launched along the network line is more like a cyberfare.
When the victims themselves are completely ignorant, their images are dragged into the pornographic windows that thousands of men are staring at at the same time, and they are brutally violated.
Not only in East Asia, but also in the form of the present tense, the same tragic story is being repeated in the countries of the world.
A recent study of intimate image abuse in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom showed that one in five men had engaged in such behavior. According to the Daily Mail, data released by the London Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom shows that from October 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021, such cases surged by 329% in London alone, and the number of underage victims between the ages of 10 and 17 quadrupled.
Revenge Porn Helpline counts the number of "non-consensual web pornography" reports in recent years
The publisher calls himself a "collector", collecting daily photos, sexy photos, and private photos of women around him, and is proud to post them in the public network community, without the slightest concern about what kind of reputation and psychological blows the girls who are uploaded will suffer.
The terrible thing is that this deformed "collecting culture" is becoming more and more "formal".
To be a thief, there is always a lack of heart, illegal websites, or half-screen gambling advertisements, or like the graduation assignments of web beginners ten years ago, there should always be a sneaky, shoddy, ready to run face.
But Ruby, a British teacher, found that the current "non-consenting internet pornography" community looks clean and tidy and orderly.
"I can't believe that there is such an infrastructure: so well-organized, so systematic, supported by the people around us."
Following a plea from a student, she felt cold after clicking on the AnonIB website.
In the anonymous message board for adult images for Users in Europe and the United States, Ruby not only saw exposed pictures of students being impersonated by others, but also found himself.
It was a semi-nude photo of herself in sunscreen at the hotel when she was 17 years old, and it was only shown in a private Facebook photo album for about 3 weeks, when there were about 400 friends, and she didn't know who stole the pictures and uploaded them to the community, but it must have been friends and family.
Their delightful faces are embedded in the neat pages of the site, surrounded by the malicious mockery and terrible foul language of the viewers.
AnonIB has a positioning function that enables precise partitioning. When you choose to search for "local" girls, it can not only give a large block like London or Birmingham, but also focus on a neighborhood, or a certain high school.
Every neighborhood, every high school, seems to be asking if there are any "good goods" here.
Girls' nudity, like the Water Margin card in a crisp noodle, the pokémon in Pokémon, is becoming a social tool for cyber villains.
In 2019, the Oxford Brooks football team exposed a scandal by forming a "male only" Facebook account that asked players to share and evaluate as many naked "Brooks girls" as possible. In order to integrate into the group, the team members competed to produce photos of their girlfriends and ex-girlfriends, and praised them, and in just a few days, the group gained 7,000 members.
Nicola Henry, a social law scholar at RMIT University in Australia, notes that "just as teenage girls are forced to send nude photos, teenage boys feel pressure to obtain and share nude photos to earn honors".
The girls' nudes in the collection are so tempting for the boys, as if as long as they get these pixels, they can pass the adult exam and get the stamp certification of "masculinity".
You may feel that what will be abused and shared is just an out-of-the-box nude photo, as long as it is not taken, you can eliminate the risk from the root.
But in fact, 3-inch ID photos, photo studio family portraits, any ordinary photo, may become the object of insult.
Even in the subway, a girl wearing a mask listening to a song in a daze candidally shoot, will be labeled filthy.
The heart of beauty, everyone has it, and it doesn't seem like a big deal to pass on a picture of a beautiful girl. But you can never underestimate how quickly and completely humanity slipped when this picture fell into a completely anonymous, blameless context.
The girl on the screen smiled ignorantly, completely unaware of the obscene gaze on the other side of the screen. I don't know whether it was a colleague, a classmate, or my lover who personally sent them into this situation.
Whether in Chinese or foreign cases, you can always easily locate the real identity of the girl. Because the uploader never thought to help them cover up, and even took the initiative to expose.
On AnonIB, next to the photograph of the victimized woman, there are always people who will enthusiastically mark her name, school, work, and address, for fear that others will not know that they know her well.
In Chinese communities, after the pictures are submitted, the girl's name, QQ number, and Weibo address are often attached.
What's more, they will also issue a marriage certificate that only codes the man's information, proving that it is indeed his wife who has been "betrayed".
The fine mosaic part is coded by the author, and the rest is coded by the original publisher
These men, hidden behind screens and mosaics, are not the lewd men common in film and television dramas.
Looking at the arrest records of the "big gods" of the 91 network in the hard-hit area, it is not difficult to find:
"Aisi Lonely Man", working in Shanghai, with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan, married and has a son, and the husband and wife have a good family.
"Mr. Rammed", a British returnee, an executive of a foreign company in Shanghai, with an annual salary of millions, a height of one meter and eight meters, a harmonious wife and daughter, and a happy family.
"Mr. Rammed" arrested according to law Figure 丨 "Frontline"
They're more like the most common ordinary men around us, and it's hard to imagine them picking up their little daughters from work with their hands held high and just editing videos that humiliate other girls.
What's even more frightening is that they never feel the slightest bit sorry for this, and even fall into some kind of self-pity.
Unlike the motives of the teen community, which are mainly "showing off", the most common captions in the adult community are "green slave" and "sacrifice" – when they send out those pictures, they see the victim not as an innocent girl, but as themselves.
When the abuser begins to tick pictures in the album, women are no longer living individuals, but "sexual resources" for hunting. Their bodies are completely sexualized, collapsing into pornographic cards for play and collection.
Pornographic cards do not have the power to speak, they are the property of the abuser, owned by the abuser, for the perpetrator to distribute and exchange. Just like in ancient times, it was completely possessed by men as a female resource.
What is the sin of trying to hunt, collect property, and then distribute your own property to your brothers free of charge? This is clearly a great, selfless, capable sacrifice that no one can do.
In the "Chinese version of Room N" incident at the beginning of the article, the uploader told the victim girl that the photo uploaded by her was only "casually posted".
But for the girl, it was a public execution on the Internet without forgetting that could no longer be washed.
Her pictures were retweeted and abused.
"Baidu's picture is a treaty X, dating information, is the 'my contrasting little bitch' in the yy contribution exchange."
Despite knowing that they were not at fault in this matter, the girls could not escape shame.
"Your body is like the stars of Vincent van Gogh, please let me see your private art exhibition."
At the age of 14, Leah Juliett handed over images of her body under the sweet words of the boy. Soon, the picture went viral in the high school group, and every boy was showing off this rare "resource".
The initiator receives the highest glory, and Juliet falls into a nightmare.
"I tried to vomit, I tried to cry, but I couldn't spit anything out."
The shame of not being able to control herself made her unable to cut her own skin with a knife, and only pain and alcoholism could bring some short-term relief. Originally enthusiastic about student activities and opinions, she suddenly sank into self-isolation. I didn't dare to speak, I didn't dare to make friends, and even whenever I made eye contact with others, I couldn't help but bow my head in shame.
Self-harm and suicidal tendencies have long plagued her, and her dreams of becoming political have faded, and she feels that she is not worthy of this path now.
Figure丨 TED
According to Relige Porn Helpline, more than half of the victims of "non-consenting internet pornography" each year have attempted suicide or developed suicidal tendencies.
There is no real empathy in the world, and if there is, a picture thief hiding behind a screen should have regretted it the moment he pressed the send button.
The girl's body may be just an inconspicuous happiness medal on the wall of the "Manhood Club", but for herself, it is a chain reaction that affects her for life.
After the N Room incident, the South Korean people protested
Some girls are caught up in intense self-blame, afraid to tell their families about what happened to them, for fear of being blamed by their parents for agreeing to take pictures.
Some of the girls face the collapse of social identity, Ruby has to report nude photos to the school after discovering that nude photos have been uploaded online, and her affairs are circulating wildly in the town, which makes it almost impossible for her to stand on the podium again.
More girls, losing the ability to trust. After a serious betrayal, it is difficult for them to trust each other in an intimate relationship, and who can guarantee that the pillow person is not the next betrayer? Some have even shifted their sexual orientation to this end.
There are also girls who fall into the "catastrophic imagination" of the development of the event. In 2019, a girl in Fuzhou encountered the "nude photo threat" of her ex-boyfriend, swallowed 200 motion sickness pills and died tragically.
This is really unfair, why does the abuser have a short, cheap, shameless happiness, and the victim have to pay for it with his life?
A few years ago, a popular saying was a rotten stem - "Use my three years of youth to exchange for your life's nightmare".
It is said that the crime of rape is three years old.
Some people jokingly said that three years, for a girl's lifetime shadow, is worth it.
"Low risk, high reward", the same rogue logic, put on the issue of "non-consent to online pornography", still works well.
Victims of "non-consenting online pornography" find it painful that it is difficult for us to legally punish the perpetrators.
Various "non-consenting internet pornography" threats have proliferated丨Revenge Porn Helpline
Although in the field of intimate image abuse, more than 40 states in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States have introduced relevant laws. However, the scope of application of the law is limited to "retaliatory pornography".
If the purpose of the publisher is to hurt, threaten, retaliate against the victim, and deliberately cause suffering, they will face two years in prison once the charges are established.
But if the publisher insists that it is "just for fun" and "didn't expect her to see it, and didn't want to cause harm", the law cannot sanction it.
Victims of "non-consensual internet pornography" often receive only a case number and an assistance hotline when they report a crime. The police recommend that victims digest the problem themselves – unless a large number of reports are saved or minors are involved, it is difficult to refer the case to the regional organized crime department.
The whistleblower felt that the police might be treating the problems as nothing more than innocent pranks: "The officer who received me yawned as he listened to me, saying that this was the 20th AnonIB report of the day. ”
One might say that China is still good:
According to Teacher Luo Xiang's teachings, in China, sending nude photos of others directly constitutes the crime of insult, and if the number of browsing clicks reaches a certain amount, it can also constitute the crime of disseminating obscene materials.
Figure丨 B station
But this is only the most ideal state. In fact, when things happen on the internet, it becomes particularly difficult to lock down suspects and collect evidence, and the difficulty of handling cases increases geometrically.
This is still limited to nude photos, if the publisher only uploads ordinary life photos of the victim in the pornography community, and does not involve nudity, text, or P-pictures, then the above crimes are difficult to establish.
Although we know that those people have done nothing good with our photos, in law, they can only demand that the publication be stopped, the impact eliminated, and the infringement and moral damages be compensated in the name of infringing portrait rights, just like the victims in the "Chinese version of Room N".
Not to mention punishing the perpetrator, the victim even has a hard time stopping the loss.
In cases of "non-consent to online pornography", the punishment that the law can give is far from proportional to the persistence of the victim's "social death".
Internet memories are sometimes as short as goldfish, and sometimes stubborn as maggots on the tarsal bone.
After the "nude photos gate" incident, the main offender Shi Kejun was sentenced to 8 months in prison. And the victim, Ajiao, in the online live broadcast 9 years later, still had to face the "Chen Guanxi" scrolling on the screen without words.
Malicious comments under related videos
Victims find that the complaint platform and the demand for the platform to delete the relevant pictures are easily met. But soon after the photos were deleted, they reappeared on these platforms.
Meta tried to solve the problem on a technical level: they partnered with the international charity SWGfl to launch the "StopNCII" (Anti-Nude Photo Ransomware) project. By analyzing the nude photos uploaded by users, the same images on the network are filtered and blocked.
But that's just a drop in the bucket. In more corners of the Internet that Meta and its social media alliances have been whipping, victims' bodies are still circulating.
Leah Juliett
Even on the moral level, the "justice" of the victims is constantly being ruthlessly suppressed.
Leah Juliett found that when she tried to shake off the effects of nude photos, she publicly denounced this despicable act. Support voices were accompanied by many malicious private messages and comments.
Among them is the victim guilt theory that we are familiar with: "It's not the uploader's fault, it's yours, if you don't shoot, how can something happen later?" ”
There is also the classic slut humiliation: "Admit it, you are a rioter, normal people who will take nude photos of themselves and send them to men?" ”
Finally, when they found that none of this could shut Juliet shut up, they decided to sweep her into the trash heap of the "mad woman":
"She's crazy, she's telling all lies, don't believe her."
Comments on Leah Juliett's speech
Not all atrocities are punished immediately, and not all suffering is justified.
All we can do seems to be left to advise the girls: be careful and careful, if you can't shoot, you really have to shoot, then "dew point does not show face, show face does not show point."
But why?
Photographing, admiring, and cherishing your body is such a wonderful thing.
Even if the girl made the bullet by herself and loaded the bullet by hand, it was always the person who pulled the trigger who was guilty.
What's more, it's not just intimate images that are exposed to pornography groups. It is also the most common life photo, ID photo, and the ordinary photo that every girl will have in the circle of friends.
In the eyes of the sex hunter, when the girl wears a short skirt, the short skirt is erotic, and when the girl wears long pants, the trousers are erotic, even if she is completely shrouded and hidden in a deep burqa, the burqa is still erotic.
If the picture of the girl is seductive to the devil of crime. Then I am afraid that the existence of women is itself the original sin.
No amount of caution can escape a long-planned evil.
In the face of the dark side of society, we always say that we must "expose".
It seems that as long as it is exposed to the sun, the darkness will turn into fly ash like a vampire.
But this is just an illusion.
The mites in the quilt, no matter how many times they are exposed to the sun, once they are covered back on the bed, they will still thrive in the hot flashes.
After today's article is sent, there may be a lot of messages from out of nowhere:
"I understand the reason, so what about the figure?" What about links? ”
Communities that have brought pain to countless girls may pour in a group of new people who have "watched the news and come to them". Continue to create new pain, continue to steal the life of the girl around you.
In the absence of systematic and effective regulation, "condemnation" is like a joke.
It seems that we are now reminding the girls over and over again of the existence of this evil act, as ridiculous and ridiculous as Sisyphus's attempt to push the boulder up to the top of the mountain.
But the girls never stopped fighting because of the hurt they were destined to be incur.
In 2019, "Bankruptcy Sisters" creator Whitney Cumming was blackmailed by nude photos, she directly put the original picture online, and said: "You think I am too vulnerable to threat." If anyone is going to make money with my nipples, it's the old lady herself. ”
This year, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands have been rumored, as soon as in the spring, with the renewal of the bill, involuntary sharing will be characterized as a crime.
Maybe "non-consenting online pornography" will never die, but neither will the girls' legislative appeals and moral recourse – we can't stop the black hand behind the screen from exposing us to the threat of "social death", but the black hand can't stop us from sending them to jail one by one.
To the wicked: Don't forget that while you are staring at us, we are also staring at you.
Resources:
1. Female guest at No. 9 Julu Road: The murderer who personally sent me into Room N is a 6-year friend of 985 University
2. Girls don't be afraid: After being sent to the "Chinese version of Room N" by my friends, I decided to just end up with 8,000 male members
3. The Guardian：‘I have moments of shame I can’t control’: the lives ruined by explicit ‘collector culture’
4. The Guardian：UK's revenge porn helpline registers busiest year on record
5. TED：How I Survived Revenge Porn
6.Seventeen：Revenge Porn Almost Took My Life — Here’s How I Got It Back
7. Simple psychology: "Good girls don't take nude photos?" : 1 in 25 people encounter revenge
8. 36 Kr: Meta's practice of asking for nude photos to protect privacy has been ridiculed by the group, and the failure of the trust mechanism is the main reason
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