Shi Hongju
Recently, the Internet celebrity anchor "Tizi" with millions of fans has harvested a wave of traffic by eating sharks.
However, some popular science bloggers have questioned that the 1.7-meter-long shark is actually an internationally endangered wildlife shark.
In this regard, "Tizi" flatly denied, saying that the shark he ate was a sharp-toothed shark, "obtained through formal channels."
On July 31, it was identified that the shark in the video was a human shark (also known as a great white shark).
The "Great White Shark" purchased by the Internet celebrity "Tizi" came from the coastal areas of Fujian, and the relevant personnel have been controlled by the police.
Under the background that the Internet celebrity economy has attracted much attention, some people do everything they can to attract traffic and gain attention in order to become "Internet celebrities", and even violate the bottom line of law and morality.
The behavior of the Internet celebrity cooking the great white shark on the live broadcast is a serious violation of the law, and should be punished, and the responsible person in this chain of interests should not be spared.
According to the report, the great white shark cooked by the Internet celebrity is a national second-class protected animal, and due to the destruction of the marine ecology, there are only more than 3,000 left in the world.
Marine biologists have therefore called for a ban on all human shark fishing, and are urgently calling for the protection of the great white shark to avoid extinction of the species.
According to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law, those who illegally hunt or kill precious or endangered wild animals under special state protection, or illegally purchase, transport or sell precious or endangered wild animals under special state protection and their products, are dissatisfied with the value of more than 20,000 yuan. 200,000 yuan can constitute the crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals, and can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years; if the value exceeds 2 million yuan, it can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years.
The benchmark value of the great white shark involved is just 20,000 yuan, and the protection level coefficient of the national second-level key protected aquatic wildlife is 5, that is, the overall value of an adult great white shark is the benchmark value multiplied by the protection level coefficient of 100,000 yuan.
The Internet celebrity's behavior of buying and cooking a great white shark has been suspected of committing a crime, and she will be severely punished by the law.
In addition, the acts of hunting, killing, purchasing, transporting, and selling great white sharks are all suspected of crimes. It is necessary for the relevant departments to follow the clues and investigate thoroughly, so that the relevant personnel pay the price for their wrong behavior.
According to reports, the relevant personnel have been controlled by the public security organs. In the next step, it is necessary to investigate and punish these people for other behaviors that endanger precious wild animals.
It is worth noting that the Internet celebrity argues that he purchased through formal channels, which seems pale.
Generally speaking, the breeding, transportation and acquisition of national key protected wild animals all require the permission of the relevant departments.
The reason why the internet celebrity chose to live-stream cooking great white sharks is because the rare species of great white sharks can be used as gimmicks and highlights for live-streaming.
Knowing its rarity, but still buying and cooking it willfully, even if you try to excuse yourself through "regular channels" afterwards, it is still difficult to get rid of your own suspicion, and it is not enough to avoid punishment.
A chain of interests for killing wild animals has been secretly formed, and the live broadcast of Internet celebrities is only the last link in the chain and the most obvious one.
The Internet is not an extrajudicial place, and live-streaming the killing of wild animals, which harms the public's conscience, good customs and social morals, should not become an "Internet celebrity" in a society governed by the rule of law.
It is necessary for the relevant departments to punish the perpetrators in this criminal chain and make them pay the price for their vulgar and cruel behavior.
Online platforms should do more, take technical measures in a timely manner to delete and block relevant videos and "selling" channels, so that there is no market for such abnormal, distorted and bloody video content, and thus effectively protect wild animals from deformed online aesthetic culture. and injured.