Future Network Beijing, September 5 (Reporter An Ruying Intern Xie Jialiang) Dancing "edge wiping" dance girls, performing men who eat raw meat, the video flashed a variety of "hades" special effects... Li Yongjun (pseudonym) never imagined that his son, who was still in elementary school, had been watching these videos in the "QQ Small World" (hereinafter referred to as the Small World).
Mr. Li regretted his negligence when interviewed by the Future Network reporter, he said that he had heard the child say that he was playing "Small World", but he had always thought that this was just an ordinary short video software under Tencent, and he did not expect that there were so many videos in this application that were not suitable for children to watch.
"Tencent is not audited? Can you see these videos in a 'small world' with minors as the main users? Mr. Lee said angrily.
The future network reporter learned that the "small world" is backed by THE huge traffic pool of QQ, with the post-95-00 as the main user group, it can be said that QQ "small world" is a short video of teenagers.
In 2018, the "Report on the Participation of Children in China (2017)" released by the China Children's Center showed that the penetration rate of QQ among primary and secondary school students in China was as high as 85%. According to Tencent data in 2019, the most active time for "post-00s" to use QQ is from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., which is just the "prime time" after school.
In the second quarter of this year, "Small World" was mentioned as a QQ-level interface, which means that children may be exposed to these videos as long as they open QQ and swipe to the left.
Image source: Mobile phone QQ screenshot
Mr. Li was not the first parent to question "Small World", and many netizens publicly expressed their shock at the scale of Small World's video. In the "small world", users can search and watch a large number of large-scale videos with pornographic edges, hunting stimulation and other large-scale videos, many parents and netizens have doubts about the review mechanism behind the emergence of a large number of such videos in the "small world", the reporter found that in the netizens' evaluation of the "small world", "bloody", "hunting curiosity", "eyeballs for traffic" and other words frequently appear...
Edge-grazing, gore, horror effects... "Little World" video feels uncomfortableIn response to the questions raised by Mr. Li and netizens, the future network reporter launched an investigation and entered the platform as a new user.
In the process of browsing the video in the "small world", the reporter first viewed some normal hobby videos, and the recommendation mechanism of the "small world" also recommended the relevant content normally, but after refreshing several times, the "small world" appeared abnormal, and some "edge wiping" videos popped up when browsing the video normally.
According to the netizens' breaking clues, the reporter searched with the keyword of "wiping the edge", and there were 488 works in the topic, with a total of 13.66 million views. The reporter found that under the "wipe edge" search page, the first video that popped up began with a picture of a girl half-pulling on the zipper of her skirt, and the screen was full of "sexual innuendo".
Image source: QQ Small World
Chillingly, in the comments section of these videos, some authors use pornographic videos to divert traffic, "ten consecutive pushes plus I send all for free."
Subsequently, the reporter saw more related videos and found a more surprising situation, not only the creators of the "edge- wiping" video, but also the comment area of the video that appeared in the comment area of the user with a very "sexual innuendo" meaning, and some users posted vicious comments such as "private chat out of the film" and "call Daddy to you". There are even some users who leave a message, "Little sister private I will show you."
Judging from these comments, not only parents, but also many teenage netizens have said that they are "shocking", once minors are affected by many inducing comments, really go to "private chat"? The consequences are unimaginable.
More netizens angrily said that most of the video creators in "Small World" are adults, and as adults, they intend to use "edge-wiping" videos to interact with minors, which is simply "morally degraded".
In addition to pornographic videos, the future network reporter also found that there are many hunting videos in the small world. Under the "Hunting" topic of "Small World", there are 19.29 million views, a total of 339 works. The reporter found that some of the works inside were very "heavy taste". For example, on the cover of one of the videos, a boy has a piece of meat like a bug in his mouth, his face is covered with blood, and his eyes are staring straight at the screen... Even adult netizens feel obvious physiological discomfort after seeing such videos, and they can be seen by children in the small world.
What's even more frightening is that in the comment area of this video, there are many users who infer that they should be minors from the work, leaving comments such as "like", "love and love", "married" and so on.
According to netizens, on the "small world" can also see the video of various terrorist special effects that have been banned by platforms such as Tieba and other platforms, and the future network reporter confirmed this situation according to the keywords left by netizens. Reporters showed some of the horror special effects videos to a number of adults who were already working, and 99% said they were "unacceptable and will feel uncomfortable."
UP Master personally tested that he could upload a yellow video!"I heard that QQ Small World is involved in pornography, risking death to try, the result I was stunned", On Bilibili, UP Lord shared his story of personally testing the small world review, the video view was as high as 3.572 million, and many netizens participated in the interaction.
According to the video, the UP owner tried to release a content with "sexual innuendo" on the "small world", from only visible to public, without encountering any problems in the whole process, nor was it blocked by the "small world" review mechanism, and the UP owner took his other mobile phone to directly see the pornographic video he released.
Such a situation can't help but make people question - does the small world have an audit mechanism?
The reporter saw many netizens in the comment area of the video complaining about the review mechanism of the small world. Some netizens said that the small video review is the same as not; Some netizens said, "There are girls in the small world who hurt themselves, and Tencent is afraid that it has not been reviewed"; There are even netizens "real hammer" small world involved in pornography, "there is that kind of real pornography (not just scraping the edges and other videos), really outrageous."
Even in the small world, the authors of some pornographic videos joked, "I'm afraid the review is not a fainting."
Source: Bilibili comment area
Have the relevant platforms fulfilled their regulatory responsibilities? The reporter complained about the video suspected of spreading obscene information in the small world. But as of press time, only one pornographic video has been removed, and the rest of the videos are still searchable.
The QQ small world that is disliked by users is Tencent's "hope for the whole village" in the field of short videoOn August 15 this year, Tencent, which has been operating for nearly 8 years, was discontinued and the APP was removed. According to the "Finance and Economics" weekly, most of the operation personnel of the viewing team have been "optimized", and some research and development and technology have been transferred to QQ's product "Small World".
According to media reports, a number of PCG (Tencent Content and Platform Business Group) insiders revealed, "The small world is the hope of the whole village, I hope they succeed." A Tencent employee recalled that the importance of the small world can be seen from its mention of the QQ first-level interface.
However, despite Tencent's investment of so many resources, the response of "Small World" among users is not good. The reporter entered "QQ Small World" in baidu browser, and the first three relevant searches that popped up were "Close, Remove and Replace Small World". At the same time, users can be seen questioning the small world on major social platforms.
Image source: Baidu
"What do you think of QQ's newly launched small world?" On the Zhihu platform, under the question of this high page view of 342,000, many netizens commented and shared their own complaints about the small world. The Future Network reporter found that almost all the answers under this question are users expressing dissatisfaction with the small world.
The most praised answer to this question Image source: Zhihu
On Weibo, the wind evaluation of "Small World" is also not good. Some netizens said that I still "look at the point", I will not go to see the "small world"! Some netizens said that as soon as the "small world" came out, I set it up, do you think that if the "viewing point" is gone, someone will go to see the "small world"? Some netizens even called Tencent's behavior "disgusting.".
On Bilibili, enter "QQ Small World", and most of the videos at the top of the home page are questioning the existence of bad content and no review. There are also some stories of UP owners personally testing uploading bad content.
Source: Bilibili
Experts suggest that platforms should increase the supervision of short videos, and parents should also take responsibilityHow will pornographic, gore, and horror special effects videos affect children? "These videos can cause children to have serious cognitive biases, are prone to violent tendencies, lose deep thinking ability, and cannot communicate normally with their peers around them." Du Yue, a lawyer at Henan Taiyuheng Law Firm, said.
Hu Juncheng, deputy director of the E-sports and Online Game Law Professional Committee of the Cultural Industry Rule of Law Research Association of the Shanghai Law Society and a lawyer at Shanghai Randy Law Firm, told the reporter of the future network that the creators of pornographic videos make, copy, publish, sell and disseminate pornographic videos, and if the creators subjectively hope to make profits from them, they are suspected of constituting the crime of spreading obscene materials for profit. If the creator subjectively has no purpose of making profits and only uses the Internet to disseminate some pornographic videos, it is suspected of constituting the crime of disseminating obscene materials.
Tencent QQ "Little World" constitutes the provision of Internet cultural products containing content that promotes obscenity and endangers social morality, violating the interim provisions on the management of Internet culture and the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors.
Studies have shown that soft pornography is extremely harmful to minors, minors in the developmental stage, not fully emotionally educated, a piece of soft pornography, may be the first time they feel awakened, attracted. A random like collection will let the algorithm recommend more similar content to the ta until it is addictive. At the same time, online pornography will change children's brain cells, and violent pornography on the Internet will have a devastating impact on the brains of adolescents, destroy children's emotional sensitivity, and increase the risk of violent sexual behavior.
In response to the video chaos in the small world, all parties should take responsibility.
"Any organization or individual who discovers that network products or services contain information that endangers the physical and mental health of minors has the right to complain or report to network product and service providers or departments such as for network information and public security; Internet information departments and other relevant departments shall strengthen oversight and inspections of efforts to protect minors online, lawfully punishing the use of the network to engage in activities that endanger minors' physical and mental health, and providing minors with a safe and healthy online environment. Du Yue said.
Hu Juncheng believes that Tencent should immediately analyze the causes of the problem and seriously deal with the relevant personnel; Conduct comprehensive and strict screening of videos in "QQ Small World", strengthen multiple review mechanisms before video uploads, and resolutely resist, reject, and strictly prevent videos that endanger the physical and mental health of minors such as obscenity, pornography, violence, and guided consumption; Optimize the parent-to-QQ software control function, and make the parent management function more obvious and convenient on the basis of the original time-limited and limited function.
Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, told reporters that short video platforms like "Small World" cannot all be manually reviewed, and most of them are audited by AI. Tencent should improve the algorithm recommendation mechanism of "small world" and do a good job in the function of this "filter net".
At the same time, Zhu Wei said that parents should also assume the responsibility of being guardians. Parents should try to avoid their children's premature exposure to electronic social tools. If it is a search for materials, online classes, etc., parents should participate in the whole process of guardianship. "You can't say that you can put your mobile phone and computer in your child's hands and you're done."