How to break the business chain of minor online games
The milk tea shop at the entrance of the school provides number rental service, brushing and training, and has formed an industry
● At the beginning of the new semester, some milk tea shops, stationery shops, and bookstores in front of the school put on "vest" and started the game rental business, providing students with mobile phone and game account rental services
● Some e-commerce platforms and mobile application stores can search for game rental shops and applications. There are a large number of accounts available for rental for each game, and the merchants claim that the rental accounts are all real-name authentication. Face verification, refundable
● To prevent minors from indulging in online games, we need to work together. Relevant departments should strengthen supervision, platforms should strengthen audits, schools and parents should behavely guided, so that the negative impact of online games on minors can be minimized by a multi-pronged approach
□ Our reporter Zhao Li
□ Intern Yang Yinan
Tian Lin has been playing "cat and mouse" games with students almost every day recently-the milk tea shop in front of the school provides students with the service of "renting mobile phones and game accounts". Several students in the class who love to play games leave school as soon as school. Will sneak in, spend 5 yuan to rent a mobile phone and account, and "fight" in the world of online games.
Sometimes when I was playing vigorously, I found Tian Lin had entered the store, got up and ran, not even the schoolbags.
As the head teacher of a middle school in Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, Tian Lin racked his brains in order to prevent students from indulging in online games: shielding classroom signals, talking with students, and interviewing parents... But what he can't guard against is that the milk tea shop at the entrance of the school is unexpectedly unpredictable. It is convenient for students to play online games.
A recent investigation by a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily found that at the beginning of the new semester, some milk tea shops, stationery shops, and bookstores in front of the school put on “vest” and started the game rental business.
Some e-commerce platforms and mobile application stores can search for game rental shops and applications. There are a large number of accounts available for rental for each game, and the merchants claim that the rental accounts are all real-name authentication. If you touch the anti-sinking charming face during the game Verification, refund is possible.
In addition to renting accounts, there are many minors who evade the "Minors Anti-addiction System" through various forms such as brushing, contemporary practice, and borrowing other people's ID numbers, pretending that adults are addicted to the world of online games.
The milk tea shop puts on the waistcoat
Provide game number rental service
There are many milk tea shops, bookstores and stationery shops near the school where Tian Lin is located, and the straight-line distance is basically no more than 200 meters.
When school is over, these shops are crowded with students.
At first, Tian Lin thought these students were either buying drinks or reading books. After a few days of careful observation, he discovered that the students were renting mobile phones to play online games.
"You can rent a mobile phone and a ready-made game account for only 5 yuan." Tian Lin told reporters.
Li Kang is a student of Tian Lin and is keen on online games. He often secretly goes to the milk tea shop to rent mobile phones and game accounts.
According to him, these shops will not clearly mark the price, but based on the model of the mobile phone rented by the students and the different levels of the account number, ranging from 5 yuan to 15 yuan per hour.
“Students introduce resources to each other. It’s easy to know which stores have updated online games. They usually use the lunch break and after school to play.” Li Kang said that these rents are all saved from living expenses.
At the entrance of a high school in Zhumadian City, Henan Province, the reporter found that there were similar stationery stores and small shops with various learning and daily necessities, as well as a computer and multiple plug-in boards.
According to the students of this high school, if they need to charge their mobile phones, they go to these shops and charge 3 to 5 yuan per charge; they can also download songs and movies, and each song or movie costs 2 to 3 yuan.
"As long as you give money, you can do anything. Just say that you want to borrow a mobile phone, and the merchant won't ask why you use a mobile phone." When asked whether the store provides mobile phone rental and game account services, a student told reporters this way.
The reporter's investigation found that in addition to physical stores providing account rental services, some e-commerce platforms and mobile application stores can also search for shops and applications that provide game rental accounts. There are a large number of accounts available for rental for each game, and the business claims All rented accounts are verified by real names. If you touch the anti-sink charming face verification during the game, you can get a refund.
"It was very convenient to rent and buy an account before. I bought an account in an online store on an e-commerce platform, and I can place an order directly without asking for my personal information at all." said Li Si, a student in a vocational high school in Henan Province. .
Binding adult ID
The brushing business is becoming more and more popular
In addition to renting an account, proxy brushing is a "magic weapon" for minors to evade platform facial recognition audits.
The so-called proxy brushing refers to binding the account of the minor player to the adult ID card, allowing the adult to swipe his face, so that he can enter the game after passing the platform review.
The reporter noticed that in Baidu Tieba, some netizens posted about the relevant experience of brushing, and listed the operation steps in detail, and many netizens responded in the following posts.
There are also some netizens soliciting business in the post bar, claiming that they can use their faces for generations, and the price varies from person to person.
The reporter added a netizen named "Coco" and asked about brushing.
"Cocoa" said that the first brush of 120 yuan, and each subsequent time of 20 yuan, there is no need to provide any personally identifiable information during the operation.
When the reporter voluntarily mentioned that "I am a minor", the other party did not refuse the transaction.
However, some netizens took the initiative to end the transaction consultation after learning that the reporter was a "minor".
This netizen’s pricing standard is 100 yuan for the first generation, and 30 yuan for each follow-up.
The reporter's investigation found that there is also a higher-level method of brushing on the Internet, that is, find a minor who is about to become an adult, bind his ID number and brush his face. After a few days, the minor will be deleted immediately after he reaches adulthood. Face, replace it with your own real-name information, which can also circumvent platform audits.
A netizen posted a screenshot of the above operation in the post bar. The date of birth was 2004, but the real-name verification in the game system was an adult.
The reason is that he paid 88 yuan and found a minor who was about to become an adult.
The reporter has also confirmed the practice of searching for minors who are about to become adults to scan their faces and then replace them with their real names.
In the "cocoa" circle, such minors are called "materials".
He said: "The reason for finding minors who are about to reach adulthood is that there must be a way to crack it. It has been tested many times and it can be passed. If it fails, the money will be refunded directly."
Because face-sweeping is a transaction between netizens who contact themselves on the platform, it is easy to be deceived.
In Baidu Tieba "Huamaiba", a netizen told about his experience of being cheated by paying for brushing.
The netizen said that after the payment, the first generation of brushing passed smoothly, but when it was necessary to brush the face again and modify the identity, the substitute brushing person had already "run away".
The netizen also posted a post saying that the identity of the other party cannot be ensured by looking for a representative, nor can he confirm whether the other party will maliciously tamper with his account password. If he wants to continue to scan his face and pass the platform review, he must continue to pay.
Rely on the advantages to join power leveling
The platform can participate in the sharing
Different from the generation brush, the level of the power leveling is higher.
According to Jiang Lin, a veteran online game player, power leveling is explicitly prohibited by the game platform, but in order to upgrade their accounts, many players will find some skilled players to replace themselves in the competition.
Some minors with a high level of gaming will go to the contemporary practice to make money and play games with other people's accounts.
Jiang Lin revealed that game power leveling links can be seen everywhere on some live streaming platforms or short video platforms. Those who want to join power leveling only need to provide screenshots of the highest rank of their account or previous game results. Most power leveling platforms will not review their identities. , So many minors can easily settle on the platform to take orders.
"If the order is received on the power leveling platform, the platform will charge a portion of the fee and the price will be higher. Some players directly find matched teammates and trade privately. As for whether the opponent is a minor, it is not clear. Everyone. I think it’s just a simple game, and they won’t ask the other party to show their ID. However, there will be some “run orders”.” Jiang Lin said.
Some minor players revealed that they have used multiple power leveling software to receive orders. The price is set according to the opponent’s game level, and the third-party platform collects handling fees. "The power leveling price ranges from 5 yuan to 30 yuan per game, and the platform charges The handling fee is not equal, and some charge a 20% handling fee."
The reporter noticed that for minor players, the most economical way to avoid platform review is to log in with the ID number of a parent or an adult they know.
Chen Xiaoshuai is a junior high school student in Xinyang City, Henan Province. His parents work outside the city. He lives with his grandparents.
In order to play online games, he lied to his grandparents that he wanted to use a smart phone to study and that he needed to borrow an ID card to log in. In this case, the elderly generally would not refuse.
"Many of our classmates who play games do this. You can also find someone who has a good relationship and has grown up to register an account first, and then let him lend us the account to play." Speaking of his "coup", Chen Xiaoshuai A bit complacent.
In addition, the reporter learned that many minors will also take the initiative to add adult WeChat accounts and QQ accounts as friends, and use the accounts of adult netizens to play online games through the form of making friends.
"We know some senior sisters. They keep in touch with us after they go to university. The relationship has always been better. Sometimes when I really want to play games, I ask them to borrow an account." Li Si said.
Supervision fell one after another
A long way to go to prevent addiction
In order to prevent minors from indulging in online games, the state has been taking action.
As early as 2005, relevant departments formulated the "Online Game Anti-addiction System Development Standards" and issued the "Notice on the Development of Online Games (Anti-Addiction System)" to online game operating companies, requiring companies to use technical means to treat minors Online game time is limited.
Subsequently, the "Online Game Anti-addiction System Real-Name Authentication Scheme" was issued to require players' real-name authentication.
In 2019, the National Press and Publication Administration issued the "Notice on Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games", which put forward stricter and more standardized requirements for the youth anti-addiction system.
Recently, the National Press and Publication Administration issued the "Notice on Further Strict Management and Practically Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games", which strictly regulates the playing time of minors, requiring minors to be allowed only on Fridays and Saturdays. , Sundays and statutory holidays, use online games from 20 to 21 o'clock every day, and require companies to strictly implement the real-name registration and login requirements for online game user accounts.
With the fall of supervision and control, and the tightening of restrictions, minors’ anti-addiction has achieved certain results. However, industries such as renting, borrowing, and buying numbers have taken the opportunity to grow wildly, avoiding and preventing addiction, which has caused many minors to take advantage of them. Loopholes.
Some people in the industry have pointed out that there is currently no industry-uniform standard for preventing minors from indulging in addiction.
Face recognition technology has not been enabled in all game software so far.
One is for the consideration of users' personal privacy and information security concerns; the other is that there is currently no uniform policy, regulation, security standard, and application specification for face recognition technology in the country.
Xi Peizhi, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Law Society’s Juvenile Law Research Association, believes that to prevent minors from indulging in online games, we need to work together. Only by working together can the negative impact of netizens on minors be minimized.
But Tian Lin is still a little confused. After fighting with students who are addicted to online games for 5 years, he knows that preventing minors from indulging in online games is not a matter of overnight—providing the market for minors with vests is like a mole. , One store collapsed another store will think of some new ways to start again.
"When can we really prevent minors from indulging in online games?" Tian Lin asked at the end of the interview.
(Wen Zhong Tian Lin and the minor are both pseudonyms)