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On the Internet, some people have been pushed to the cusp of the storm, some people have been scolded to the point of being out of style, ordinary people have been hung on the Internet to "parade the streets to show the public", and there is no shortage of "clappers and applause".
"Seven feet of body, don't listen to three inches of tongue." There is a dragon spring on the tongue, and there is no blood in the killing. A netizen who knows only a few words directly poke people's hearts.
A "silenced gun"
"It doesn't matter, you can use your real name." Hearing that we were going to interview her, the girl on the other end of the phone smiled and said, "I was maliciously ridiculed because of my real name, so later, I called myself Wang Shengnan, and ShengNan was a former name, and then my parents felt that this name was too powerful before they changed it for me." But I think the name is more in line with my personality. My real name is Wang Jingjing. ”
Wang Jingjing's Weibo avatar is a delicate side face. Her Microblogs record her husband, children, and daily chores, just like most young mothers.
In June 2017, Wang Jingjing finally stood up to fight back against the alumni who had bullied her for many years. In the end, alumnus Jiang was sentenced to 3 months' detention for defamation.
If it were not for this case, many people might find it difficult to imagine that Wang Jingjing 10 years ago was actually an "abandoned" child. On the Internet, she was plastic surgery, she was thrown into the sea, on campus, she was slapped, isolated, in the eyes of her parents, she also seemed to be "too vain", and the fuse of all this was just a cup of water.
"Two classmates in our class broke my water cup in a fight, and my table mate joked that this cup cost three million, and you actually broke it!" At this time, some people said, since they are so rich, why are the clothes on their bodies so dirty? Because it was mistakenly rumored that the water cup was three million, the classmates began to maliciously mock Wang Jingjing, "plastic surgery in elementary school", "boyfriends in groups", "parents earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year", "dressed in old soil"... At that time, Wang Jingjing was only 15 years old.
Alumni also went to Tieba to post photos of her, slandering her for prostitution and inciting her to die. "The post that scolded me had hundreds of pages (which has now been deleted. ）”
Screenshot of Wang Jingjing's evidence gathering before the indictment.
Wherever you go, you can always see some contemptuous eyes or whispers. In addition to her school, many students from surrounding colleges and universities have also heard about her, and even some people have launched the activity of "thousands of people watching the goddess".
10 years ago, it was the rise of Internet forums, Tieba and BBS, and the power of online public opinion became increasingly prominent, which could promote the development of events and accumulate the power to destroy a person. If ling chi's punishment can cut a person's body into 3357 pieces, verbal violence can cut a person's heart and dignity with a thousand knives.
"A whole bunch of people cursed me to die, and if you don't die, you're sensationalism!" On a sunny weekend, Wang Jingjing ate 40 aripiprazole tablets (used to treat schizophrenia), only to be unable to get out of bed for a few days, and the new comment of the campus post bar was: "This trick is too old-fashioned." ”
Years later, even though Ms. Wang has worked, married, and had children, there are still people who continue to spread her past on social networks. In 2016, only because she mentioned that her depression was because of campus violence, many alumni made a comeback of personal attacks on her, and she opened a Taobao store to start a business, but also suffered a deliberate bad review.
"To be honest, before these two years, I always thought that I had done something wrong, and I thought that maybe I was not very good, a little high-profile, and more vain." It wasn't until Wang Jingjing got help from legal people on the Internet and prepared to file a lawsuit that she realized that it had always been their mistake.
"I was a child then, and if it happened now, it might have had a lot less impact."
This year, Wang Jingjing personally sent the bully to prison, and this storm spanning nearly 10 years almost completely changed her life. "I was originally the top five students in our key high school class, but I dropped out of school and went to a specialty after re-studying."
Wrapped up in the era of "everyone has a microphone", online violence has become a cancer that damages the mental health of minors. According to the "Survey Report on Internet Use and Network Security of Chinese Teenagers" released at the end of May this year, up to 71.11% of teenagers have experienced cyberbullying, most of which are ridicule, abuse, malicious dynamic maps, intimidation, etc., and the scenes include social software, online communities, short videos and news comment areas.
Some people say that if you love a person, you may as well let ta become an internet celebrity, and from then on, you may as well let him become an internet celebrity; if you hate a person, you may as well let him become an internet celebrity, the light can not sleep, the heavy is dead. The same applies to young people. In the role "play" of online violence, adolescents may switch between the victim and the perpetrator.
Behind the "butcher"
In the network environment of group anonymity, when the melon-eating masses who do not know the truth, they become law enforcers. When the keyboard heroes' many public opinions, it became an absolute right to speak. Cyberbullying is like a bloodthirsty beast that is always hungry and thirsty and can't be filled, wandering around all corners of the network in search of prey. With the rapid development of the Internet, the current situation that young people are deeply entangled with online violence is really heart-wrenching.
Network retrieval of youth network violence: a 13-year-old girl in the United States Megan is plagued by overweight, tried to make friends on the Internet, but was viciously abused by netizens, and finally the little girl hanged herself on a home belt.
Amy, a 14-year-old teenage girl model in Australia, has long been victims of online violence. Some strangers insulted and cursed her maliciously for no reason. The little girl could not stand the vicious words of the Internet, and chose to commit suicide at a young age.
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The person who is attacked by the crowd may be innocent. But it seems that few people want to know the truth, and most people rely on superficial evidence to arbitrarily criticize others from the moral high ground.
"He now works in an oil refinery in Ningbo, as if he were an outside operator." It was not until the opening of the trial that the 24-year-old Wang Jingjing came face to face with the senior Jiang Mou for the first time. Jiang rarely spoke at the trial, saying only that what he said was the truth, and that he wanted to submit evidence, but in the end he did not submit it. "He seems to have pretty good computer technology, I remember when I was in high school, he said he made a piece of software that he could post in batches, and then he sent a post saying, everyone came to get the software, and then posted in batches to scold me, and then he felt like a hero, and many people admired him." 」
After reading "The Black Sheep Effect", "The Rabble", and "Social Psychology", Wang Jingjing realized that in fact, all people in school bullying are victims of the "Black Sheep Effect" - the bullied are "helpless black sheep", and everyone in the huge bullying group is a "butcher with a knife".
Some things are not related to their own interests, but when everyone around them attacks the "black sheep", perhaps unconsciously, or out of subconscious to maintain cognitive agreement with the group, so they also become a member of the butcher.
"The most critical point is cognitive dissonance. Once a person makes a decision, he begins to constantly rationalize his behavior, otherwise he will be out of balance. "Wang Jingjing understood why Jiang and others have been reluctant to admit their mistakes." Admitting mistakes is very painful, most people do not have the courage, they simply make a mistake to the end, continue to find shortcomings from me, and maintain their own righteous personality. ”
An alumnus who helped Wang Jingjing in the school said: "The defendant (Jiang Mou) sued by Wang Jingjing this time is an administrator of the school's Tieba and has a very right to speak and is very influential. His followers speak with him and have a strong fan effect. ”
When people's thinking is wrapped up in emotions, a simple and crude inference can harvest a large number of people to follow. Reason has lost its position and is replaced by a raging atmosphere of violence.
"Many alumni have actually apologized to me, many of them are following the trend, watching the hilarity, a few days ago, I also received a message, he said very sorry, when he was young, he also followed the trend in the post bar blackened you, but I don't know that you actually dropped out of school later, really sorry."
Lu Xuena, deputy director of the Legal Department of the Cyber Security Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said that from the public security practice in the past five years, the trend of generalization and youth of cybercrime is very obvious. People who are younger are not so familiar with the mastery of network technology, but they can already obtain simple knowledge very easily and can carry out network crimes, which is also one of the reasons for the trend of young age. Minors do not have a high degree of recognition of rumor information and false information, and sometimes they may edit, disseminate, and forward online information out of curiosity or other purposes, which can easily trigger crimes.
Out of the "fog"
"What is the significance of defending rights in ten years? You can't exchange your youth, nor can you exchange for the top five in your class. "Someone questioned Wang Jingjing, and she wanted to give some encouragement to children like her." Tell the world that school bullying is wrong. Tell parents and schools that you should punish the perpetrators and protect the injured child. Tell victims of school bullying to be strong and not to give up on themselves. ”
The child's heart, like crystal, is both clear and transparent, and easy to be tempted. People often say: "A good word is warm in three winters, and a bad word hurts people in June." Although the social foci of online violence occur on the Internet, it is necessary to form a joint force online and offline to find the source of the disease and cure its roots.
In September 2013, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Court promulgated Fa Shi [2013] No. 21 "Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases Involving the Use of Information Networks to Commit Defamation": If the same defamatory information is actually clicked or viewed more than 5,000 times, or the number of times it is forwarded more than 500 times, it shall be found to be "serious circumstances" as provided for in the first paragraph of Article 246 of the Criminal Law, which may constitute the crime of defamation.
On April 12 this year, the Wenling Municipal People's Court in Zhejiang Province pronounced a verdict on the criminal part of Wang Jingjing's case and sentenced defendant Jiang to three months' detention. Legal sources believe that the chain of evidence in this case is clear and unambiguous, and it is not easy for Jiang to prove his innocence. Some lawyers also believe that the greater significance of this precedent is to remind society, schools and parents that online violence is also bullying in schools, and the Internet is not an extralegal place for bullying in schools.
Weibo legal blogger Logogs is the first lawyer to give Wang Jingjing's advice, he gave a plan to "first find the platform for information, and then sue specific perpetrators", he said, although there are not many cases of online violence in China through legal channels every year, but the growth rate is very fast. Using "right to reputation" + "network" as the keyword in a legal professional case database, it can be found that there were only 134 cases in 2011, and 2444 cases in 2017. Because the Internet will leave traces, the success rate of cases that resolve online violence through legal channels is relatively high. In addition to rights protection, parents should also communicate more with their children, on the basis of understanding their children, through reading classics (including classic animations), social practices, tourism, establish a correct outlook on life and values, cultivate elegant interests and hobbies, live a meaningful life, and do not waste time on Internet trolls.
According to the survey report, whether it is in the face of pornographic information, fraud, or cyberbullying, online harassment, "as if you don't see, ignore" is the most commonly used way for teenagers to cope, accounting for 76.43%, 68.12%, 60.17%, 63.74% respectively. However, it has aroused concern that although teenagers pay much attention to it, they are also reluctant to "tell their parents", and the proportion of communication between parents on the risk of cyberbullying and online pornography is less than 10%. In contrast, they are more willing to communicate with classmates or friends.
In this regard, Tian Feng, a researcher at the Youth and Social Issues Research Office of the Institute of Social Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that in the use of the Internet for children, some parents should make adjustments and changes in some relatively simple management methods and education models, take the initiative to invest in the process of children's learning and life, and share, face and solve the progress brought by the Internet with children, which has a positive role in promoting their network literacy and safety awareness.
Recently, an experimental short film of "Bullying Potted Plants" is thought-provoking, through the bullying and praise of two different plants. After a month, the growth of the two plants is completely different, and the plants will be affected in this way, let alone people?
"Do not do to others what you do not want." Attacking others with words will also be full of negative energy. Years later, the words of the old patriarchs are still the truth.
Today's Wang Jingjing is cheerful and optimistic, although there are no friends, almost zero social, but Wang Jingjing said that she is still very satisfied with the status quo, because there is a husband who loves her, has a lovely child, and in the future she will make more money and create better living conditions for her family.
(Text/Di Chenchen, Li Shanshan, Zhang Li)