Exposing Cai Xukun's "paparazzi" may have legal responsibility, beware of reporting celebrities into an "industrial chain"
At 8 o'clock in the morning and evening of June 25, star Cai Xukun was revealed by the "paparazzi" live broadcast.
The news broke that 2 years ago, Cai Xukun had a one-night stand after a party with Ms. C, who was 9 years older than him. After Ms. C became pregnant and asked Cai Xukun for 5 million yuan.
As Cai's agent, Cai Xukun's mother bargained for 500,000 yuan while hiring a private investigator to monitor Ms. C's whereabouts.
The "strategy" of Cai's mother and Ms. C is evenly matched: Cai's mother wants to seal Ms. C's mouth, and Ms. C lies to "trick" Cai's mother into going to the hospital to negotiate, paying money with one hand and "unloading" with the other (in fact, she has already privately beaten the fetus at this time).
After the "private investigator" was discovered, the police summoned Cai's mother and Ms. C to mediate, and finally reached a consensus with 500,000 yuan + the two parties signed a letter of understanding.
As of 27:00 in June, the parties had not officially responded to the matter.
A large number of articles appeared on the Internet "Cai Xukun collapsed house" and "Cai Xukun scandal".
However, did Cai Xukun really collapse? Uncover the smoke bombs of "eating melons" and "star scandals", who is the ugliest person in the Cai Xukun incident?
Cai Xukun himself: Maybe there is a moral deficit, but it is not necessarily illegal
According to the whistleblower: After Ms. C found out that she was pregnant, she discussed with Cai Xukun what to do, and Cai Xukun suggested not to stay, so Ms. C also went to the hospital to have an abortion more "peacefully".
For Cai Xukun, the "concept" of this matter may be: "one-night stand" brings trouble and guilt.
But for Cai's mother and Ms. C, things are far from that simple.
After that, Cai's mother asked Cai Xukun whether she had used contraception, and after getting her son's "no" answer, her mother intervened in the matter as soon as possible, including: installing pinhole cameras, finding "acquaintances" of the Public Security Bureau to check Ms. C's identity information, and engaging in illegal tracking.
Ms. C is also not simple, obviously she has "finished the matter", but she pretends that she has not fought yet, and bargains with Cai's mother.
After reaching the intention, the two parties agreed to meet the hospital, pay the money with one hand, and "unload" the goods with the other.
During the whole process, as "Extreme Eye" commented: Cai Xukun is single, both sides are willing, and there is no coercive behavior.
And the other party is an adult, and the nature of the person who "steps on the sewing machine and pours drugs on the minor" is completely different.
Therefore, this incident does not constitute a violation of the law, but can only be said to be a moral defect.
Mother Cai and Ms. C: Whether it is illegal or not needs to be determined by the police
So are Mother Cai and Ms. C involved in breaking the law?
We can see in the information released by the paparazzi that Ms. C only asked for 5 million yuan after discussing with Cai Xukun. After learning that the other party could not give herself such a amount, she called the police that "she was being followed", and when Cai's mother agreed to take 500,000 yuan to "seal", Ms. C signed a "letter of understanding".
It was said that without the letter of understanding, Ms. C's demand for $5 million might have amounted to "extortion".
Some people also said that the 5 million that Ms. C asked for earlier had not arrived and should not be considered extortion. However, according to the relevant laws of the mainland, even if the money is not obtained, it may constitute an "attempt to extortion". Although "attempted" is less severe than "accomplished", it may also be punishable by fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention or surveillance.
Originally, the two parties had reached a settlement, and this matter was "over", but the turmoil reappeared: then, after this exposure, will Ms. C face the same problem as Chen Lu? This exposure, if he hired paparazzi to operate, will the situation be more serious? It is only determined by the police or the prosecution service.
Let's talk about Mother Cai.
Cai's mother's "red line" is a "magnet" because the mainland explicitly prohibits the hiring of private investigators.
It can be seen from the content of the revelation that the private investigator hired by Cai's mother is called "Li Yi", who has reported Ms. C's whereabouts to Cai's mother through video and text many times. Mother Cai "refers to where to fight", unambiguously.
According to the relevant legal provisions, only state agencies such as public security organs, procuratorates, and courts have the right to investigate citizens' privacy, and must present investigation documents before investigation.
Other organizations spying, intruding, leaking, and disclosing other people's privacy and private space, activities, and information are prohibited, and filming, eavesdropping, and voyeurism are not allowed.
Therefore, if the party believes that the letter of understanding is invalid, it is Cai's mother who is really in trouble.
Exposing paparazzi may have legal responsibility, beware of reporting celebrities into an "industrial chain"
The biggest trouble is that this paparazzi who "does not know the height of the sky" and "has no bottom line", as Extreme Eye commented:
"Paparazzi disclosing a person's private life in this way is suspected of violating the right to privacy."
Judging from the exposure steps of the entire incident, the paparazzi were deliberate:
While previewing the celebrity in advance, while announcing the live broadcast customers, at the same time, a large number of private chat records and photos were released in a "rhythmic" and phased manner.
This paparazzi is neither a victim nor a party, just for the sake of traffic and traffic, whether in behavior or motivation, "touching the red line" deepest.
Moreover, thinking carefully about the exposure logic of the "reasoning group banquet", it is simply terrifying to think about:
Since the Zheng Wuhuo King incident, it seems that there is a category of people who have eyed the traffic effect of "amateur exposure stars", exposing this today and exposing that tomorrow, making some smoky scandals a hot spot in society and "polluting" the public's attention.
From the past dynamics of the paparazzi, it can also be seen that what he may have been doing in the past was "proxy shooting".
In 2021, CCTV has a special report on the "agency photography industry chain": scalpers buy itineraries, squat hotels, sell photos, and get a lot of income...
And now this "industry chain" seems to have added "terminals" and "gimmicks of event marketing", that is, "exposing celebrity scandals".
These people "string" the privacy of the celebrities who take the proxy shooting, and may even hesitate to agree with the parties, report the stars, and profit from them, which is really terrible!
In previous years, these "proxy paparazzi" profited from selling celebrities' photos and privacy, and since the state introduced a series of policies to combat "rice circle monsters", they began to study the use of their resources to design new profit-making processes.
From the course of action of "reasoning about the small banquet of the group of rivers", it can be seen that he has a very clear profit logic:
The first step may be to discover the "clues of Cai Xukun's scandal" through proxy photography (generally paparazzi stay at this step)
In the second step, he collected netizens breaking news everywhere and tried to get more information conducive to exposure.
In the third step, he is likely to have contacted Ms. C (and the private investigator) to obtain their "first-hand information" through buyout or distribution to compile and edit.
Step 4: Design the marketing rhythm, warm up, store power, live broadcast on social media...
As of 11 p.m. on June 26, the number of relevant hot searches on various platforms of "Cai Xukun" reached nearly 100, and the single platform of "Reasoning Qunjiang Small Banquet" rose by more than 400,000 overnight.
After the preview of the live broadcast in two minutes, 70,000 people poured in, and the number of viewers finally reached one million.
Even after the revelation, the paparazzi also sold the goods in a grand manner... The ambition of the wolf son is obvious.
It can be imagined that if this trend is not stopped, this is simply the new "way to make money" for paparazzi and station sisters. If there are some "bottomless" businesses and capital to support it, then the power of the rice circle may be revived.
The motives of the paparazzi's malicious hype are extremely vicious and ugly, as netizens said: opening up beauty can not hide the ugly heart.
Really beware! Don't be blinded by the appearance of "eating melons", and don't let "reporting stars" become "new industrial chains in the rice circle".