Cracking down on "remote voyeurism" requires the concerted efforts of the whole society

◎ Xiao Ke

Recently, two incidents at a certain station have attracted heated discussion: first someone illegally uploaded surveillance footage, and then someone broadcast gynecological surgery live. According to reports, the doctor involved in the live broadcast has been arrested after the report, and the police are investigating. Netizens are generally indignant about such camera intrusions into privacy.

Short videos and live broadcasts have become the mainstream way of entertainment in today's society, but with them, there is one after another bottom-line behavior. Massive remote surveillance cameras, convenient with people at the same time, but also bring trouble. The high-tech that was supposed to be used to protect safety and make people feel at ease has become an accomplice of voyeurs, as if the security guards had become thieves. There are also reports that there are many "black live broadcast" sellers, wholesale a large number of cameras controlled by hackers to the next home, establish a complete network industry chain, and wantonly invade the privacy of ordinary people.

Ordinary people often unknowingly, daily privacy is exposed to the world. Voyeurs satisfy their evil desires in front of the screen, but it is difficult for us to find out and defend our rights. The world of cameras is everywhere, and we have no escape.

In the past year, the Cyberspace Administration of China has specifically promoted the governance of illegal content in live broadcasting and the voyeuristic black industry, urged various platforms to clean up relevant illegal and harmful information, remove illegal products, and interview surveillance APP manufacturers that have hidden dangers of privacy video information leakage, and a series of measures highlight the great importance that government departments attach to this. In order to crack down on the camera peeping into the black industry, we must first severely punish relevant black enterprises and black channels according to law. At the same time, it is necessary to install a solid protective gate on the hardware. Warn those manufacturers and platforms that are suspected of connivance, and let regulatory responsibilities be implemented in every link.

When traffic comes first, live streaming deliberately caters to vulgar voyeurism. The lower the behavior, the worse it is, the more audience it has. The scandal of "gynecological surgery live broadcast" once again reminds us that the atmosphere of entertainment first and entertainment to death will inevitably promote live broadcasting to the direction of rebellion against morality and even illegal crimes. If it is not curbed in time, eventually everyone will have to bear the huge cost of garbageting cyberspace. Everyone is to blame.

Although the platform requires anchors to ensure that the content is legal, in the face of massive live broadcasts, only a small number of full-time personnel are used to supervise, which is actually a drop in the bucket. As a user, you have the right and obligation to supervise and interfere with the content broadcast. When everyone is willing to invest more power, Yang Qing turbidity, purify the live broadcast space, in order to reduce the management cost of the entire ecosystem.

Therefore, we would like to call on the whole society to jointly combat the crime of invasion of privacy. If it is found that there is an infringement of personal privacy on the Internet, it should be reported as soon as possible, the rights and interests of others should be safeguarded, and the crime should be curbed in a timely manner.

At the same time, the whole society should also clarify the sense of boundaries of live broadcasting and monitoring, clarify what can be filmed and what cannot be filmed, and clear a solid, inviolable and secure space for everyone.

Source: Science and Technology Daily