CCTV news: On November 22, the second-instance judgment of the extreme sports enthusiast Wu Yongning climbing a tall building and falling to his death was announced, and the pepper live broadcast needed to compensate Wu Yongning's family for various losses of 30,000 yuan.
Since 2017, Wu Yongning has posted a large number of videos of climbing tall buildings with his bare hands on Hua pepper live, and on November 8, 2017, Wu Yongning fell to his death while climbing The Huayuan International Center in Changsha. After that, Wu Yongning's mother sued the live broadcast of peppercorns to the court, demanding that peppercorns live broadcast bear the tort liability. On May 21, 2019, the Beijing Internet Court of First Instance found that Hua pepper live should bear the corresponding network infringement liability for Wu Yongning's death, but Wu Yongning himself should bear the most important liability, and the responsibility borne by Hua Pepper Live was secondary and minor, so it ruled that Hua Pepper Live should compensate the plaintiff for various losses of 30,000 yuan. Subsequently, PepperCorn Live filed an appeal.
On November 14, 2019, the second instance trial of the case was held at the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate Court. Hua Pepper Live appealed that Wu Yongning's behavior was a self-willed risk, and the platform should not be held responsible. At the same time, the platform party has fulfilled a reasonable duty of care, and the practice of providing savings space is not a harmful act.
On November 22, 2019, the Second Instance Trial of the Fourth Intermediate People's Court pronounced judgment on the case, rejecting the appeal of Hua pepper live broadcast and upholding the original judgment. Hua Pepper Live must compensate Wu Yongning's family for 30,000 yuan.
According to media reports, Wu Yongning uploaded a video of the high-altitude extreme challenge for the first time in February 2017. In 10 months, he traveled to Chongqing, Changsha, Wuhan, Ningbo and Shanghai, climbing landmark high-rise buildings and bridges ranging in height from 100 meters to more than 400 meters, leaving more than 300 challenge videos. In these videos, Wu Yongning performs extremely dangerous actions without any protective measures, including riding a balance bike on the roof of the building, flipping his heels, standing upside down with one hand, sloping the wall as a slide, and jumping long between the two buildings.
As Wu Yongning's fame grew, attracting more than a million fans, various video cooperation platforms and advertising businesses also flocked to it. On the platform "Volcano Small Video", which he publishes the most videos, Wu Yongning has 1 million fans, released 300 videos, and conducted 217 live broadcasts.
After Wu Yongning's death, many short video platforms such as Meipai, Kuaishou, and Volcano said that they would no longer encourage such content or directly restrict the dissemination of such videos. Nowadays, Wu Yongning's accounts on multiple platforms can no longer be searched.
Live broadcasts are frequently staged, and interests are the biggest driving force. In the wake of this unfortunate incident, some live streaming platforms have stepped up regulation of dangerous videos. For the live broadcast platform side, it is you who build and operate, it is you who share the benefits, and it is you who bear the responsibility, how can it be less than you? Only profit, not responsibility, this is a typical "pretend sleep".
Now, it is hoped that judicial precedents can awaken platforms that are immersed in traffic dividends and "pretend to sleep", so that live streamers can interact with users above the bottom line of safety and law, rather than losing themselves in sharing, tipping and applauding. At the same time, it is also important that platforms that want to "pretend to sleep" cannot "pretend to sleep", that is, laws and regulations have a clearer definition, so that the vague space for "pretending to sleep" is getting smaller and smaller.