From game entertainment to cheating for profit, chaos is raging-
network divination, it's time to cure it!
2021 is coming soon, and not only people's expectations for the new year are increasing day by day, but also a variety of online fortune-telling services.
Characters, zodiac signs, palm prints, facial features can be seen, career, marriage, wealth, health, all-round measurement.
The original fortune-telling set was moved to the Internet, using technology to "resurrection", adding a little mystery, but peeling off the packaging of the clumsy words, the inside is mostly a money-giving move.
Network divination, it's time to rule!
There are many chaotic patterns
Xiao Li is in his senior year this year, and his academic and employment pressures are relatively high. When someone in his circle of friends shared the information of "master fortune telling", he was also moved.
"Luck hasn't been very good these days. I want to try it myself when I see others say it is quite accurate." Xiao Li said.
At the beginning, the "Master" asked Xiao Li to take a picture of the palm print, and then sent several voices, and repeatedly emphasized that the relevant content should not be shared with others.
Xiao Li told reporters that this time there was no charge for seeing the photo, but only asked her to "post" the content to the circle of friends.
"But I was skeptical about the content of the analysis. I chatted about it with a friend I had seen before and found that the voice content was basically the same." Xiao Li said, when I went to the "Master" to ask again, I found that the other party had blocked himself .
Unlike Xiao Li, many people in real life fall into it because of superstition and cannot extricate themselves.
In November of this year, the People's Court of Zhungar Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region announced a major case.
The deceived Wang Moumou was suffering from emotional and career problems and depression due to a long-term illness.
Later, I saw a "master" live divination on a social network platform. The "master" deceived him to buy "exorcism talisman" and other items on the grounds of being able to eliminate disasters, cure illness and protect safety, and obtained more than 2.5 million yuan.
The reporter found that for searching with "fortune telling" and "divination" as keywords, many online platforms and social media have a large amount of relevant content, and even new technologies such as artificial intelligence and face recognition have also been used.
According to reports, after a user submits a photo with an intact face and clear features without glasses, the report is generated in less than 30 seconds.
But to get it, you need to pay 9.9 yuan, if you want to get more individual reports, you have to continue to pay.
In addition to the ring and ring payment unlocking report, there are many ways to collect wealth through online divination.
Paying "upgrade fees" to become partners, hiring writers to post marketing articles to deceive operations, relying on "Navy" to scan the screen to deliberately create word-of-mouth... People are often cheated to gain trust invisibly without knowing it.
Easy to disclose personal information
"No matter which form of fortune telling, it is to meet some of the psychological needs of fortune tellers." said Zhang Xin, an associate professor at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University.
Faced with all kinds of pressures in work and life, people often find out what caused them.
If it is an internal cause, it is easy to make people feel frustrated, while an external cause will relieve anxiety and help adjust the mentality to cope with changes.
This is precisely the selling point used by the "masters".
Also used is the "Barnum Effect" in psychology.
Zhang Xin said that maybe it is to give people an ambiguous answer, but this answer makes it the easiest to check in and make everyone feel credible.
But in fact, the answer can describe many people.
As more and more Internet fortune-telling scams surfaced, the essence of their feudal superstitions in the cloak of the Internet was also known to more people.
The so-called "masters" turned out to be salespersons "trained" by some companies in batches; most of the popular fortune-telling apps or small programs among young people are businesses designing several sets of templates, and then ranking them according to information provided by users, demands and other information Combine, and finally generate "template wording" to "arrange" everyone's destiny.
It is worth noting that the harm caused by frequent chaos is more than just cheating money.
To be too addicted to this is the danger of leaving society.
Xiao Xueping, a national second-level psychological counselor, believes that excessive indulgence will have a certain impact on personal character and life, prolong the time of confusion, and may also lose the opportunity to establish intimate relationships.
From the perspective of personal information protection, online divination also hides greater risks.
Whether it's tarot card testing, palm reading, or facial reading, you need to enter some personal information and even collect personal biological information.
Experts said that if the above information cannot be properly managed and protected after collection, it is very easy to cause personal information leakage.
Governance requires multiple efforts
In the existing laws and regulations, there is a lack of clear regulations on network divination.
However, according to the "Administrative Measures for Internet Information Services" and "Administrative Measures for the Security Protection of Computer Information Network International Networking", if the provided network services and information promote feudal superstition, it is a violation of regulations.
Anyone who violates the legal rights of others for the purpose of obtaining money by deception is suspected of breaking the law.
Experts believe that to control all kinds of chaos, we must first bring online divination from the marginal zone back to the spotlight of the law, improve relevant laws and regulations, clearly incorporate this behavior into the scope of legal adjustment, and delimit the boundaries and restricted areas of online divination.
Industry insiders pointed out that platform gatekeeping and government supervision should also keep up.
As far as the platform is concerned, it is necessary to strictly control the audit and access, and timely seal and report the accounts that violate the regulations; from the supervision point of view, within the framework of existing laws and regulations, relevant departments should assume the main responsibility of supervision , Strengthen supervision and law enforcement inspections on online divination.
Experts believe that the most important thing is to promote the spirit of science throughout society and improve the overall scientific quality of citizens.
For young people who are often confused and anxious, seeking help from tarot cards and other divination methods is to obtain a "symbolic satisfaction."
"In fact, there are many ways to obtain this sense of satisfaction, such as professional psychological consultation, the company of parents and friends, etc." Sun Yuanming, a researcher at the Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, said that society should focus on psychological counseling for young people and provide professional psychological services. Guide young people to establish a correct outlook on life.
Shi Zhipeng