On February 13, the cover news reporter learned from Liu Xuezhou's aunt (one of the adoptive parents) Chai Li (pseudonym) that her case against two Internet big V "Internet violence Liu Xuezhou" officially opened on the 13th. At this time, a full year had passed since Liu Xuezhou committed suicide.
Liu Xuezhou's photo before his death (source of his social account)
Chai Li said that Liu Xuezhou proved his innocence by suicide in intensive online violent attacks, and those who abused him online have not apologized. "Before the accident, he told me that he had been subjected to online violence, and I didn't understand what online violence was at the time. It wasn't until later that I encountered the same situation that I knew what kind of pressure he was under. I want to ask for a fair one for him. ”
Chai Li said that the "truth brother" and "warm-hearted sister" who were prosecuted this time have tens of thousands or millions of fans, and before Liu Xuezhou committed suicide, "repeatedly posted insulting and offensive content, spread widely, sue them first, and a group of other active online abusers, and will continue to prosecute later." ”
Two big Vs accused of "online violence against Liu Xuezhou"
once posted a post accusing Liu Xuezhou of "not understanding gratitude"
In December 2021, 15-year-old Liu Xuezhou found his biological parents after posting information about his family search. Because of his sympathetic life (both adoptive parents died at an early age) and the bizarre process of finding relatives (contacting his biological father by himself through the vaccine book), his progress in finding relatives has been attracting attention from netizens.
Things soon exceeded Liu Xuezhou's expectations. When he found his birth parents, he found that he was abandoned, and he even suspected that he had been sold by his parents. After recognizing his relatives, he found that his parents had become a family, and he became a difficult problem for the other party to accept, and then he was blocked by his biological mother on WeChat.
After Liu Xuezhou posted a recording of the phone call with his biological mother, his biological mother accused him of forcibly demanding real estate from his biological parents. Public opinion instantly pressed on Liu Xuezhou, some people said that he directed and acted in hype, and some people scolded him for "dying soon." On January 24, 2022, 40 days after recovering his biological parents, Liu Xuezhou issued a 7,000-word suicide note on the beach in Sanya, and then committed suicide by taking medicine.
In the suicide note, Liu Xuezhou recalled in detail various unbearable encounters over the past 15 years, and responded at length to the process of finding relatives before and after, as well as the pressure after encountering online violence.
Before falling into a coma, Liu Xuezhou entrusted the mobile phone to passers-by and informed all the passwords. After seeing the hot search on the Internet, Chai Li repeatedly called Liu Xuezhou's phone, and only from this passerby did she know Liu Xuezhou's situation at that time.
Chai Li said that after checking Liu Xuezhou's social account information and comparing it with the content of the suicide note, it was found that after his biological mother accused him in an interview on January 17, 2022, a large number of netizens sent insulting and offensive messages to Liu Xuezhou, and many netizens and self-media posted similar content.
"Among them, 'Brother Truth' and 'Sister Warm' are among the most active accounts. They posted videos, enthusiastically speculating and slandering Liu Xuezhou's motives, accusing him of not understanding gratitude, deep scheming, white-eyed wolves, and even provocatively leaving messages under Liu Xuezhou's account. Chai Li said that she commissioned a lawyer to collect evidence from a number of similar accounts, because the two accounts had a large number of followers and the content they posted was widely disseminated, and they were the first targets of prosecution.
Network big V "True Brother" video screenshot (source network)
The cover news reporter noticed that the two accounts have been banned by the platform after being complained by a large number of netizens. In the materials circulating on the Internet, "Brother Truth" said that Liu Xuezhou abandoned the grace of nurturing and insisted on finding relatives because he disliked the family who raised him and could not buy a house; Finding your biological parents and asking to buy a house is an unsolicited request; Liu Xuezhou abandoned his adoptive parents' grandparents and grandparents, and after the four elderly people lost their children and daughters in middle age, they were abandoned by their adopted grandchildren in old age and were lonely.
Aunt: I learned his pressure when I was raped online
Those people have not apologized to this day
Chai Li introduced that after the unexpected death of her adoptive parents, Liu Xuezhou was accepted to live with her grandmother, and she had just married at that time, and she had a good relationship with Liu Xuezhou since she was a child. Accustomed to the difficulties of his family, Liu Xuezhou never told adults about the bullying he encountered during his studies. After contacting society, he also reported good news to his family.
Liu Xuezhou's photo before his death
At the age of 13, Liu Xuezhou lied about his age from his family, passed vegetables and washed dishes in restaurants on holidays, and later worked as a courier sorter and convenience store tally clerk, using the money earned from part-time work to buy high-quality clothes and shoes, and these clothes and shoes have also become the reason for attacks by online abusers.
"After his birth mother spoke out in the media, he called me and said he had been abused online. I didn't know what online violence meant, I thought someone was scolding him. Just let him ignore it. Chai Li said that she originally followed Liu Xuezhou's social account, but she was busy with work and limited use of her mobile phone, and she could not see the actual situation of Liu Xuezhou online in time.
Liu Xuezhou said in his suicide note that he was attacked by a large number of trumpets every day, and he really could not withstand such pressure.
According to data released by Sina Weibo, the number of private messages received by Liu Xuezhou rose sharply from January 17 and reached its highest point the next day. Weibo cleaned up a total of 290 reported complaints and suspended the private message function of more than 1,000 users.
"Those people came like locusts, they all retreated, and even the content of the original invective was deleted, as if they had never come." Chai Li said that in October 2022, her husband fell from the sixth floor while doing air conditioning loading and unloading work, and the high surgical fee made her helpless, and when she launched a request for help online, she was attacked by a large number of netizens for "rubbing traffic", "eating human blood steamed buns", "dramatic" and "you killed Liu Xuezhou", repeatedly collapsed, and personally experienced the pressure Liu Xuezhou encountered before his death.
"Liu Xuezhou used his death to prove his innocence, but the person who abused the Internet has not apologized so far." Chai Li said she wanted to seek fairness for Liu Xuezhou.
Chai Li's lawyer, Zhou Zhaocheng, said that more than 2,000 online violent remarks against Liu Xuezhou have been extracted on the Internet, and the families of Liu Xuezhou's adoptive parents have not raised economic demands, but only hope that these online rumors attract traffic will pay the legal price, hoping that similar tragedies will not happen again.
Source: Cover News