Corona impact Successive posts “Unforgivable behavior that causes discrimination” 6: 5, May 5
As the demand for self-restraint over the new coronavirus continues for a long time, there are a lot of messages on the Internet to put down infected people and blame people who visit downtown. Such acts are called “self-restraint police” on the Internet, and experts call for “unforgiving acts that cause discrimination, and be calm and respond.”
In the case where a woman in her twenties in Tokyo returned to Tokyo by express bus after returning home from Yamanashi prefecture, she wrote on a bulletin board on the Internet that the name of the woman and her family's occupation were posted on the board. Posts have been posted that remarkably reduce personality, such as "being the same as a murderer".
In Kagoshima Prefecture, when an infection of a woman who stopped by in the prefecture was announced in March this year, in addition to blaming the behavior of the woman, a lot of writing was done to identify personal information, and the infected person on the Internet was There are a lot of malicious posts that you can blame.
In addition to slander and slander against infected people, on SNS such as Twitter, photos and videos of people gathering in parks and shops are posted, and posts blaming "Ignoring self-restraint request" are posted. It is one after another.
In addition, a live bar in Tokyo, which is closed for business, carried out live with no spectators and delivered it on the Internet, and a sticker saying "Please refrain from it. If you discover it next time, I will call the police" There were also cases.
These actions are called "self-restraint police" and "self-restraint police" on the Internet because they monitor and control whether they respond to self-restraint requests.
Naoya Sekiya, an associate professor of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Informatics, specializes in social psychology, "In the background there was dissatisfaction with anxiety and behaviors against unknown illnesses, and by blaming others Has been resolved. ”
In addition, he calls for "I want you to respond calmly with unforgivable behavior that causes discrimination."
Posts one after another on SNS
A man in his thirties who actually shot a large number of people at retail stores and posted on SNS did not intend to act like "self-restraint police" when interviewing NHK, " I wanted to point out to the media, which covers only the places where the number of people is low, that there are places where the number of users is increasing and it is different from the actual situation. "
On the other hand, the owner of a live bar in Tokyo, which has a sticker saying "Call the police," told NHK interviewers, "It may be possible to understand if we talk calmly, but it is misunderstood in this way. It's a pity. "