網路在中國出現一個驚人的功能，為受害者、弱勢者討公道！許多社會上不平的事，在網路上公開，並且有人在網路「追殺」「兇手」，出現令人恐怖的網路上的暴力，包括信箱被塞到暴，照片被公布無法上班、還有地址電話都被公開的，遭到網民無情擾攘！～怕了吧！中國法院終於出手！

Chinese court fines Web user in 'cyber-violence' case
By Mark McDonald International Herald Tribune
Saturday, December 20, 2008

In the first case involving cyberviolence and a "human flesh search engine" in China, a court has fined a Web site and an Internet user for posting personal and intimate details about an unfaithful husband, his mistress and a spurned wife who committed suicide.


While the fines in the case were small, legal scholars said the ruling could carry a wider significance as the Chinese government and the Communist Party search for ways to police the Internet. A recent rise in online vigilantism could lead the authorities to issue more dramatic restrictions on Internet users and Web sites.


The court ruling, which was announced Friday, specifically mentioned "cyberviolence" and the possibilities for abuse by human flesh search engines, which the three-judge court called "an alarming phenomenon."


The term comes from a widely used compiler of blogs and search engines in China called Renrou, which in Mandarin means human flesh. Renrou searches have been used by countless bloggers to hunt down otherwise-anonymous Chinese citizens in cases ranging from love triangles to political outrage to cold-case murders.


"For sure the court sees human flesh search engines as a problem and recognizes the need to do something about them," said Anne Cheung, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong. She said that the ruling directs the Ministry of Information Industry in Beijing to draw up specific guidelines that define personal data and privacy.


In the case, after the wife's suicide in December 2007, her personal diary was publicly posted on the Internet by her sister. The sorrow and despair of her final days, which she had recorded in a private blog-diary, set thousands of outraged human flesh searchers to work, tracking down the husband and his mistress for vengeance.


It didn't take long. The husband, Wang Fei, 28, soon began receiving death threats, harassing calls at work and vilification on the Internet. He and his girlfriend, a 23-year-old co-worker, were forced to leave their jobs at a prestigious advertising agency. And outraged "netizens" besieged his parents' apartment with protests, threats and obscenities.


The persecution by the Internet vigilantes "seriously hampered my normal life," said Wang, quoted by Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. In April he sued for violation of privacy and defamation, seeking about $20,000 in damages.


The People's Court in Beijing fined the Web site, Daqi.com, the equivalent of $440, plus court fees. Zhang Leyi, a friend of the dead woman, also was fined. Zhang created a site, orionchris.cn, that included the so-called death blog and essentially led to the vigilantism. He was ordered to pay $734 and fees.


Cheung, the law professor, said the fines were almost nominal amounts. In its ruling, the three-judge court chastised Wang, who admitted his infidelity, and said it had reduced the amount of the fines because of his moral lapses.


The blog-diary of his late wife, Jiang Yan, 31, was called "The Migratory Bird That Flies North." It included sorrowful passages and short poems about her failed marriage. The day after Christmas 2007 she posted a photograph of her husband with his mistress apparently on vacation together in Rome. Three days later she jumped to her death from the 24th floor of an apartment building.


Another popular site in China, tianya.com, was the third defendant in the case but was not fined. The ruling said the site had tried to control the online frenzy by removing personal information from its site about Wang.


The court ruling was reported Friday by Xinhua.


A recent survey by the China Youth Daily, cited by Xinhua, found that 80 percent of respondents believe Renrou should be regulated by the state. Nearly two-thirds said it could become "a new way of venting anger and revenge," and 20 percent feared they might become targets of a Renrou campaign.


A sampling of Renrou-style incidents shows their reach, their potential for social shaming  - and in some cases their ferocity.


Grace Wang, a Chinese freshman at Duke University in North Carolina, was seen trying to mediate a campus standoff in April between pro-Tibetan activists and pro-Beijing Chinese students. She was identified  -  and then vilified on the Web as a traitor to her country. One message said if Wang returned to China "your corpse will be chopped into 10,000 pieces." Her parents' home in Qingdao also was located in a human-flesh search, and someone dumped a bucket of excrement on their doorstep.


A man was hunted after he was spotted in Paris disrupting the Olympic torch relay, which was a source of great pride across China. Later, Internet users searched for the father of Guo Wenjun, a Chinese shooter who won a gold medal at the Beijing Games. Guo, in comments at the Games, said her father abandoned the family when she was 10 years old, which quickly led to a nationwide manhunt. The searchers became so intrusive, however, that Guo's family reportedly asked for the effort to be abandoned.


A nurse was fired from her job after she was identified in an Internet video in 2006 showing her stepping on the head of a kitten, even plunging a stiletto heel through one of the kitten's eyes. Within a week, a Renrou campaign tracked down the woman, Wang Jue, who apologized, saying she had been depressed over a failed marriage. The Shanghai Daily newspaper said her video had been used to draw people to a Web site selling DVDs of "small animals being stomped to death by aggressive women."


A husband using the Internet name Freezing Blade posted the details of an apparent affair in 2006 between his wife, Web-named Quiet Moon, and a college student known as Bronze Mustache. But the husband posted the student's real name, which led to an online manifesto by someone calling herself Spring Azalea, who demanded that Bronze Mustache be denounced and ostracized. Bronze Mustache posted an online video denying the affair, saying he had only met Quiet Moon along with other players of the video game World of Warcraft. The attacks on him became so severe that even Freezing Blade, the alleged cuckold, asked that they be stopped.


A college student posted an online video saying she did not much care about the victims of the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan Province in May. When the video migrated to a Chinese Web site, her comments infuriated Renrou users  -  who in short order found the woman's name, her address and phone number, even her blood type. She was hounded so badly she had to withdraw from school.