Room N: Face the Hell in the Palm of Your Hand

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"Big data knows you better than you do", this is a line from the "Transparent Man" in the "Annual Comedy Competition", which to some extent reveals the "no privacy" hidden dangers of the information age. It is undeniable that today's network information age has facilitated our lives and made our lives efficient and fast, but it does have dark corners that are not visible. South Korea's "Room N Incident", which was tracked down and exposed by the "Tracking Group Spark", was once such a dark existence.

"Fire" and "Dan" of "Tracking the Spark" are two college students who aspire to become journalists, and while collecting materials with the theme of "illegal shooting", they stumbled upon many online chat rooms that made money from illegal videos of women and minors. The large number of pictures and videos in the chat room surprised "Fire" and "Dan", and they couldn't believe what they saw, let alone everything they saw.

"The spiritual world is chaotic" is "tracking the spark" to describe the feeling when you first entered the chat room, and after the Incident in Room N was widely reported in March 2020, many people experienced the true meaning of chaos. In the process of lurking for more than a year, "Fire" and "Dan" have been suffering from such mental suffering.

The first and third parts of "Room N Tracking" record the discovery, evidence collection and disclosure process of the Room N incident, and the second part is the growth story of "Fire" and "Dan", which seems to be completely unrelated to the Room N incident.

In the process of "fire" and "Dan" and many women growing up, they have experienced gender inequality to a greater or lesser extent, but people are not aware of this inequality, at least not at the time of the incident. After reading the whole book, you will find that if you cut your hair short, you will also be questioned and ridiculed.

In a sense, the process of lurking in the chat room and searching for evidence in Room N is also the process of "fire" and "Dan" improving self-awareness. For example, fire realized many years later that her sister and boyfriend broke up with the right decision, at that time, Fire once thought that her sister had made a big fuss about breaking up because her boyfriend was disciplined by her own clothes.

Dan recalled that when he entered the university, after being grafted with eyelashes because he was said to be "male" by his sister, he was commented by male classmates that he was "finally like a woman". At the same time, I remembered that a female classmate ran to the classroom without makeup, and a male classmate asked her: "How did you leave your face at home?" ”

Think back, have you ever had a similar experience? Did you realize in that instant that you were being treated differently?

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The story of Victim A in Room N serves as a very good warning.

When Fire and Dan contact A and tell her that her photos are being maliciously disseminated, A is shocked and can't imagine how her private photos flowed out, which are stored in non-public accounts that only acquaintances can see, and that no one else can see.

After following the advice of "Fire" and "Dan", A began to gradually track down the suspect who spread the photo. With the layers of screening, the suspect finally surfaced, and the perpetrator turned out to be A's middle school classmate! Of course, not surprisingly, the person said in an interview: "I liked A when I was a child, but I just took the wrong way of expressing it. ”

Such a mistake is outrageous.

"Tracking the spark" said: We are just recording the sin so that future generations will not repeat the same mistakes. Indeed, the Room N incident not only shocked South Korea, it shocked the whole world. The courage and boldness of fire and flowers is admirable, and their persistence brings light to the dark corners. Although they were also timid, they still faced the hell in the palm of their hands, they did not remain silent, they let the world hear their voices.

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