Recently, Red Star News reported on a thought-provoking incident. On March 12, the Xuhui Campus of Shanghai Normal University was closed and all teachers and students were not allowed to leave the school. On April 2, out of the kindness of "bringing a little sweetness" to the alumni, Chen Zhenzhen, a student of the school who lived in a friend's home, purchased 78 boxes of chocolates at his own expense of more than 50,000 yuan and delivered them to the students after sanitize by the school. This move warmed many students who could not leave the school, and the giver Chen Zhenzhen was also given the title of "Chocolate Man" by some students.
Chocolate was sent to school after disinfection According to the WeChat public account "Exiled south" Source: Red Star News
What is unexpected is that such a campus "warm smell" that should make people laugh was actually guided by some netizens maliciously after landing on the Internet hot search, triggering a large-scale Internet storm. For a time, "I don't understand the world of dancers", "Don't you just want fire", "Where do you get your money", "Why don't you volunteer", "Why buy foreign chocolate brands"... All kinds of questioning and insults began to fill the various social accounts of the parties. Internet violence is menacing, Chen Zhenzhen as long as he clicks on the social platform, almost all of them are "99+" unread message prompts. Affected by this, Chen Zhenzhen once wanted to "withdraw from the network", but she finally figured it out: Since it is not herself who is wrong, why should she give in to the Internet rioters?
Fortunately, Chen Zhen's heart was really strong enough, so he was not knocked down by the Internet stormers. At the same time, most netizens can also look at Chen Zhenzhen's kindness in sending chocolates to alumni, and they have not been easily guided by a few people with malicious intentions. In a sense, it can be said that this is an "attempted Cybercrupt" incident. However, not every innocent person who has encountered internet violence can be so lucky, before that, there have been many incidents in the field of public opinion, the tragic tragedy of the parties who can not bear the internet violence and die lightly. The proliferation of online violence has become a major social hazard. In the face of the chaos of the Internet riot, the attitude of mainstream public opinion is quite clear, and the lessons in front of netizens are also very profound.
Many times, just like what happened to Chen Zhenzhen, the person concerned may even be abused by the Internet for doing good deeds. In the final analysis, the essence of Internet violence is not the normal expression of opinions, but the out-of-control catharsis of negative emotions. In an online environment where the rules are not clear enough and the constraints are not strong enough, any bit of "Mars" may ignite the raging fire of online violence. The ill-fated teenager said that his family said that a few words were not, and the people trapped by the epidemic did not pay enough to give the people who reached out to help... People who can launch internet violence on these things are actually nitpicking and deliberately finding faults, thus pouring out the malice in their hearts. They use the mask of the Internet to block it, using the virtual space as a garbage can for emotions. In this regard, only by governing the network ecology, improving platform norms, and strengthening punishment in a targeted manner can these "emotional garbage" disappear on the Internet.
Chen Zhenzhen's handwritten letter after being attacked by the Internet Image source: Red Star News
Whenever the actions of Internet thugs are exposed or have serious consequences, the public is often agitated. Although this indignation stems from the heart of justice, we should also note that the best way to combat Internet violence is not to "fight violence with violence". It is not difficult to target the "muzzle" of public opinion at the Internet rioters and open fire on them with all their might, and it does make those "trolls" who think they are not responsible pay the price. However, while "revenge" for the victims of Cyber violence, this behavior also further strengthens the angry side of the Internet, making it difficult to dissipate the hostility in cyberspace, and may even cause "reverse Cyber Violence".
By strengthening community norms and optimizing technical algorithms, the platform can make Internet riot speech be recognized earlier and be subject to corresponding restrictions, which is also conducive to improving the network environment, smoothing the emotions of netizens, and prompting them to speak rationally. In the final analysis, in the face of Internet rioters, compared with letting netizens implement "jianghu-style" justice, it is a more comprehensive way to deal with it by the platform with regulatory responsibilities and implement "orderly" justice. Of course, this puts forward higher management requirements for the platform side, but this is where the responsibility of the Internet industry lies.
Source: China Youth Daily client