Build a mechanism for national supervision to jointly crack down on normalcy to clean up online dirt [Bad comics website "Summer Package" is targeting minors' social platforms to spread obscene content has become a new trend]
□ Our reporter Zhao Chenxi
Mr. Chen, who lives in Wuluju, Haidian District, Beijing, recently found that his 14-year-old son is a little strange. He always keeps his mobile phone away from him, and likes to lock himself in his room. It was not until a "raid inspection" that he found out that his son was using his mobile phone. Watch porn comics…
It should not be an isolated case of Mr. Chen's son who is affected by bad cartoons.
Recently, under the command and deployment of the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, the public security organs of 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities simultaneously launched a centralized network collection operation, destroyed a criminal gang that built and operated an obscene cartoon platform for profit, destroyed 6 obscene cartoon apps, and frozen them. The funds involved are more than 51 million yuan.
The investigation by the public security organs found that the six obscene comic apps built and operated by the criminal gang used crawler robots to download relevant obscene comics from overseas websites such as Japan and South Korea, and then translated and uploaded them. Minor student groups pay to browse and watch.
Liu Deliang, professor of the Law School of Beijing Normal University and director of the Asia-Pacific Cyber Law Research Center, pointed out in an interview with a reporter from the "Rules of Law Daily" recently that to combat online obscenity and pornography, in addition to increasing inspection efforts by relevant departments, it is also necessary to continuously compact the responsibility of online platforms, and Mobilize all netizens to discover and report in a timely manner, form a joint supervision force, and jointly boycott.
Comic website routines are deep
It can be seen from the bad porn comics platform that the public security organs destroyed, these bad porn comics are of a large scale, the content is mainly Japanese and Korean pornographic comics, and the text parts have been translated into Chinese.
These bad comics use the first two chapters of the comics as a bait to watch for free, and the content after that needs to be unlocked and watched by spending the reading coins in the website.
"Summer special packages are available for a limited time! Great discounts are waiting for you!" On the recharge page of a comic, a "Summer Special" campaign was launched specifically for student holidays. Originally, 1 yuan can buy 100 reading coins. , 50 yuan can buy 5666 reading coins, plus 666 reading coins.
In addition, you can purchase a 3-month season pass or a lifetime free viewing annual pass, which ranges from 100 yuan to 800 yuan.
It takes about 100 reading coins to unlock a chapter of comics. Mr. Chen's son has recharged hundreds of yuan one after another. In addition to direct recharge, he can also get 50 reading coins as a "reward" by sharing the website link to other users.
Therefore, in order to save money, Mr. Chen's son brought in more friends to join the team.
According to the "Blue Book for Teenagers: Report on Internet Use by Minors in China (2021)", by the end of 2020, there were 180 million underage netizens between the ages of 6 and 18 in China, and the Internet penetration rate for minors was as high as 94.9%.
However, because the network security awareness of minors is often weak, they are easily violated by bad information and have poor self-control, so they have also become the "Tang monk meat" in the eyes of criminals.
According to the disclosure of the public security organs, more than one million paid members of the obscene cartoon platform were destroyed, and many of them were students. The criminal gang not only tempted minors to pay to browse and watch, but also through the cartoons, games and novels that are often browsed by minors. Wait for the website to conduct traffic promotion.
The reporter's investigation found that such comic websites are often "interlocked", and the website contains links to other obscene video websites, and these links are often designed "ingeniously", and most of them are set next to the buttons such as page turning and returning to the directory, and users are not aware of it. It will click and jump to enter, and these sites also need to become paid members in order to browse the specific content.
In addition, some websites will "remind" users to recommend downloading apps, such as small programs such as online chat rooms and live video broadcasts.
"Welfare Group" Hidden Mysteries
"Group announcement! Those who join the group do not have enough 5 people in one day and will be kicked out of the group!" Before the deadline, Wu Di finally brought in the fifth "like-minded" friend, which saved him from being kicked. out of the group.
At the same time, he also obtained the upgrade qualification to transfer money to the group owner every month and become a regular member.
There are currently more than 200 people in the "free welfare group" where Wu Di belongs. This number changes every day, that is, the group owner is "clearing people" according to the group announcement.
When the group members in the group complete the task of pulling people, the "welfare" that the group owner can enjoy is that the group owner regularly updates several obscene short videos and some obscene pictures with a duration of about 5 minutes in the group.
After completing the task of pulling people, you can choose to continue to upgrade. After paying a monthly membership fee of 35 yuan, you can join the "advanced welfare group" through the transfer group member business card shared by the group owner. There will be more updated obscene videos and pictures in the group.
If you have some special "hobbies", you can also privately message the group owner to pay to "find movies", and the price is generally between 5 yuan and 10 yuan.
Wu Di has learned from side-by-side that most of these group owners are proxy promoters recruited by some pornographic websites. They build groups on social software and send obscene videos or pictures on pornographic websites to the group to attract people.
At the same time, the rules of "pulling people's heads" are used to continuously expand the scale of the group, and make profits through the "membership fees" paid by the members of the group.
The reporter noticed that in order to evade supervision, the current methods of using social software to spread obscene content are becoming more and more "smart".
Taking Wu Di's chat group as an example, the dissemination of obscene content in the group is almost not sent directly in the form of videos or pictures, but a QR code is sent, and users in the group scan the code to watch it.
There are also some obscene videos or pictures that are directly presented in the form of shared chat records. Before clicking the sharing link, there is no description of any specific text and pictures. After clicking, relevant videos and pictures will be displayed.
Multi-party joint efforts to strengthen supervision
In recent years, relevant departments have been increasing their efforts to crack down on the dissemination of pornographic and pornographic content on the Internet, but judging from the reporter's investigation, the current online pornographic platforms are still repeatedly banned.
"It is indeed difficult to completely ban pornography on the Internet. For example, some criminals currently set up servers overseas to open obscene websites, which increases the difficulty of supervision by relevant departments. There are also some criminals. By looking for technical loopholes in major websites, links related to obscene content are placed everywhere, polluting the network environment.” Liu Deliang believes that the governance of online obscene and pornographic content cannot only rely on the inspection and supervision of the Internet, public security and other departments, but must form a joint effort to build a national A normal mechanism for supervision and joint crackdown.
In reality, some obscene content or related links even openly appear in some apps downloaded from the official app store.
Liu Deliang believes that in this case, in addition to the relevant platforms bearing corresponding legal responsibilities due to lax review, the app store side, as the "gatekeeper", should also bear certain legal responsibilities.
Only in this way can the platform party conduct a stricter review of the programs that have entered its platform, and monitor it through subsequent intelligent programs to detect problems in a timely manner.
In this regard, Liu Junhai, a professor at the Law School of Renmin University of China, agreed.
He believes that for website browser platforms, the obligation to review and supervise should also be increased, especially for animation, novel, and game websites that are viewed by minors more, and the responsibility of the network platform should be more compacted. Etc., we cannot blindly focus on economic benefits, we must strictly control the content, and promptly cut off the chain of obscene content dissemination, otherwise we will bear the corresponding legal responsibility.
At present, the use of social platforms to spread obscene content has become a new trend. The platform side should further increase the awareness of online supervision of group chat content and increase technical means. In addition to paying close attention to whether to send obscene videos and pictures in the group Content, we should also pay attention to those group chats that frequently pull people, kick people, send links and other abnormal behaviors.
"Using social software to spread obscene and pornographic content is relatively more hidden, and it is difficult for investigation and crackdown." Zhao Zhan, deputy director of Beijing Yunjia Law Firm, pointed out that because the information sent in social software is "private" Therefore, if users only send obscene content through one-on-one chat, it is indeed difficult for relevant departments and platforms to monitor the content. All can effectively supervise the content they send.
Liu Deliang suggested that we should improve the supervision mechanism of online platforms, formulate an effective supervision accountability mechanism, increase the motivation for active supervision of the platform, and encourage more netizens to provide relevant clues by establishing a reward and reporting mechanism, so that online obscene content has nowhere to hide. .