Online Mobs Force Their Shamed Victims Into Silence

Earlier this week, a 31-year-old man who stole private photos from Ma Bin, a CCTV host, after hacking into his laptop and threatened to expose the photos online, was sentenced to five years in prison for extortion.
By: www.tourexpi.com
 
March 26, 2010 - PRLog -- This is the first time in China when the sufferer of an "online nude picture scandal" was able to successfully use the law to defend himself. Most victims of such scandals chose to stay silent. Ma Bin's success is atypical in many ways.

The Internet is a gigantic carnival in which each ordinary individual is able to enjoy the fun of delivering or popularizing news messages. Offline, an article or picture has to be approved by editors at various levels and go through marketing channels before being exposed to readers.

An extreme example of enjoying such power and freedom is to pry into individual privacy as one wishes. When obscene photos and videos are being collectively watched and discussed, netizens feel a power and stimulation that they've never experienced in the real life. Social moralists don't seem to exist in the Internet paradise.

This is quite risky. In a world without legal restrictions, people are on the brink of losing their last rational judgment. Last month, sex videos of Shoushou, known as China's top auto model, were alledgedly released on the Internet by her ex-boyfriend.

No one cared about the petty vengefulness of the man's behavior or the potential harm to Shoushou.

What people wanted was to download the videos immediately and identify whether it really was the same gorgeous model they could only previously gaze at from afar.

There are no rules to obey on the Internet and entertainment is now the first priority.

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