This director is vindictive.

Chapter 101: Here He Comes Again, the Largest Cyberbullying Case

At the new film launch conference, Chen Mo talked about why he made the movie "Search", as well as the purpose and original intention of making this movie.

“I mentioned earlier the reason why I noticed the novel ‘The Lost Internet’. It was because I myself had experienced cyberbullying and online defamation, so I could relate to the situation.

I had previously debated with poet Chen about how to shoot this film. He thought the ending of the novel was too despairing, so if it were him, he wouldn't be so extreme, but would rather leave more room for people to think.

But maybe because I was young, or because I had personal experience, I started arguing with him.

Those who are cyberbullied lose their lives, so should the cyberbullies receive the punishment they deserve?

Why do those people dare to be so unscrupulous in cyberbullying others through insults, curses, smears and other vicious remarks?

I have been thinking about this problem, and later I figured it out, because for the vast majority of people who suffer from cyber violence, it is too difficult to defend their rights.

Especially recently, I heard something.”

Chen Mo told the story of a female college student who was cyberbullied because of her pink hair color. Even though she had started to defend her rights, the cyberbullies remained arrogant and continued to cyberbully the girl maliciously.

It even caused the female college student to suffer from severe depression, but those people still did not let her go.

Chen Mo suddenly asked another question: "I've been thinking about this question: what kind of people are hiding behind the screen and scolding her? Are they a group of people with a weak sense of law?"

The reporters below looked at each other in confusion.

Chen Mo answered this question herself: "That's not the case. According to the information I've learned, the netizen who has been scolding her for a long time is actually a graduate of criminal law. What's even more incomprehensible is that this netizen also has a grandfather who is over 90 years old."

"Then why are they cursing? Are they unhappy with their lives?" Chen Mo asked again.

"Not really. Some people curse simply because they're in a bad mood! Yes, that's all."

“After learning about this incident, I suddenly had a deeper understanding that anyone could become a victim of cyberbullying.

The most deadly weapon in the world is the hostility and prejudice between people.

When people cannot get rid of hostility and prejudice, this society will always be plagued by the disease of barbarism and violence.

Just like cancer cells, cyber violence does not kill people as soon as it appears. Instead, after it spreads rapidly, it continues to erode people's reason and souls, causing them to become psychologically unbalanced and distressed through various means. Ultimately, it indirectly and slowly devours a life in an invisible place.

If we allow online smearing and cyber violence to spread, everyone may become the next victim.

There are countless blurred faces hidden behind online violence. They claim to be righteous but are trampling on the bottom line of the law, but they cannot pay the price for their words and deeds. This is undoubtedly regrettable.

Most of the participants in cyberbullying are "ordinary people" who look no different from us - not stars, not internet celebrities, but people who care about social current affairs and entertainment news, like to surf the Internet and post comments.

And many times, they don’t even realize what they are doing!
This is why I wanted to make this film. I hope that through the film "Searching," everyone will ask themselves before making any comments: "Am I cyberbullying?" "Am I doing something evil?"

"Director Chen Mo, is the cyberbullying incident you mentioned just now true? Is it still happening?" When it came to the question-and-answer session, someone quickly asked.

"Of course it's true! You'll know if you check it out when you go back." Chen Mo replied.

"Then Director Chen Mo, will you help this victim defend his rights?" another reporter asked.

"Of course, if she needs it!" Chen Mo certainly wouldn't directly say that he was helping the other party defend their rights, and even today's press conference was just to make things bigger.

Chen Mo's influence is naturally not comparable to that of a female college student.

What he said at the press conference was quickly reported by the media.

Then the relevant Weibo posts of the "pink-haired female college student" and related content were found by many people.

In fact, normal people still make up the majority, especially Chen Mo, who spoke out and directly called the behavior of those people cyber violence.

Many people also saw the rights protection log posted by the female college student.

So there are still many people who support her.

"The internet has a memory, and this kind of person is truly terrifying! Supporting the blogger, dyeing your hair is a personal choice, a personal preference. Just because of this, they are being scolded and cursed. It's truly horrible!"

"Support the blogger's rights protection, hugs, everything will be fine!"

"These people are truly horrible. She dyed her hair pink and didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Even if she didn't like it, she shouldn't have done that!"

"What a strong girl! I really support you. Cyberbullying is really scary, especially for a student!"

"My mom told me that people bully you not because you've done anything wrong, but because you're better than them. These people are truly despicable. I support the blogger in seeking legal action to protect his rights! Give them the punishment they deserve!"

During the period when traffic was amplified, some netizens who had previously cursed viciously became afraid and quietly deleted their comments.

But there are also some people who are not moved at all.

However, whether they quietly deleted the comments or remained unmoved, they did not realize that this time was completely different from before.

Hongjing Law Firm has been working on securing and collecting evidence.

The reason why the girl was previously hindered in defending her rights was, on the one hand, because she did not meet the standards for filing a case, and on the other hand, because she was powerless.

However, with the financial and personal connections of Chen Mo and Search, and with the personal involvement of a red-circle law firm like Hongjing Law Firm, in fact, from the day after Chen Mo released the news to expand its influence, many comments that previously did not meet the standards for filing a case, or accounts that stole the identities of female college students to carry out various infringements and defamation, had evidence already collected.

The reason why Hongjing Law Firm did not file a lawsuit immediately was that they were waiting for the matter to become more serious.

You should know that the severity of the penalties for online defamation, online insults, and online infringements also depends on the size and severity of the impact!

And this time is different from the last time Chen Mo sued. Last time, Chen Mo only sued the celebrities in the entertainment industry, but this time, the female college student commissioned Hongjing Law Firm to sue those netizens.

It will take a long time for netizens from all over the country to collect evidence, including investigating the true identities of these people.

At the same time, this time, Hongjing Law Firm is going to fabricate the largest case of online defamation, insult, infringement, etc. in the legal field.

The number of people who meet the criteria for filing a case and are being sued will exceed a hundred!

This is arguably the largest private prosecution case in history, with the largest number of people prosecuted.

This kind of case will definitely be a sensation!
Fang Meimei's family background is quite good. After graduation, she started preparing for the civil service exam, but unfortunately it was not so smooth.

Yes, she was the law student who graduated with a degree in criminal law and kept chasing after the female college student and scolding her.

It was her way of venting her anger about the pink-haired female college student who she had been scolding and hurling all kinds of abuse at. She was in a bad mood at the time and accidentally came across the article shared by the female college student.

She was in a bad mood at the time, so she followed the people in the comment section and cursed a few times.

Unexpectedly, the female college student actually replied to him. How could this be tolerated? So he kept scolding her for several days.

Later, when she saw that the female college student was actually collecting evidence to defend her rights, she laughed.

Who is she? She studies criminal law! Do professionals understand?

With such a small amount of traffic, do you really think that since there is a first case of online defamation, you can follow suit?

As a law student, she was very confident and not afraid at all. Instead, she felt that the female college student deserved to be scolded.

However, later when the female college student said that she was depressed because of cyberbullying, she felt a little disdainful, thinking that the other party's ability to withstand pressure was too poor. How could she still want to defend her rights?
Suddenly she felt a little bored and ignored it.

But today, after she went out shopping with her bestie, she returned home and turned on her computer, only to find that her Weibo private messages had exploded with over 999 messages, leaving her a little dumbfounded for a moment.

Those private messages were sent by netizens she didn't know, and the content of the private messages was all cursing her.

Yes, there were 999+ private messages, all of which were cursing her.

Some of the insults were even more vicious than what she had previously said to the pink-haired female college student.

At that moment, she suddenly regretted it, because at that moment, she also felt the horror of being cyberbullied. Such things happened in many places across the country.

Without exception, the accounts whose inboxes were filled with private messages were the netizens who had previously insulted female college students the most viciously, jumped the most happily, and were the most arrogant.

Fang Meimei didn't know what was going on. Why did so many people suddenly start scolding her overnight? Then she saw the Weibo post of that female college student.

I found that the other person’s Weibo followers have increased from a few thousand in the past to more than six figures now.

And the comments below are dozens of times more than before.

The data exploded! Things got serious!

She hadn't been paying much attention to online developments recently and had no idea why this matter had suddenly become such a big deal.

Suddenly her face turned pale, because as a law student, she suddenly thought of something even more terrifying: why was she so arrogant before?
As a law student, she believed she understood the law, so she knew that her previous remarks did not meet the standards for filing a case.

But now?
She opened the comments she had posted, took a look at the data, and was completely dumbfounded.

Over ten thousand likes and over a thousand reposts.

It just made her stupid!
The key point is that the comments below also made her feel full of malice.

"I'll help you hold it up, no need to thank me! We'll retreat after 5,000!"

"Count me in, no thanks, we'll retreat after 5,000!"

"Repost it, then withdraw at 500!"

She suddenly realized that not only she understood the law, but these netizens also understood it!
She did not delete the comment immediately because she knew that if the other party really wanted to defend their rights, then deleting the comment would be meaningless.

She carefully checked her posts and suddenly felt relieved.

Fortunately, it should not constitute the crime of cyber defamation.

But soon she burst into tears.

Because some netizens are discussing: "This doesn't seem to constitute defamation, right?"

"It doesn't constitute defamation, but there's another crime: insult! She's posted so many messages, there must be one that fits her! Her lawyer will teach her!"

The incident of the pink-haired female college student broke out, but fortunately, the development of the matter made Chen Mo very relieved.

There haven't been so many malicious attacks. Of course, this may have a lot to do with him. After all, the first case of online defamation, the "stabbing incident," is still fresh in our memory. Although he may not be good at other things in the entertainment industry, he is still very good at attracting attention.

Regarding the pink-haired female college student, her personal Weibo traffic skyrocketed, and many voices of support and solidarity appeared.

There were also many voices calling for severe punishment of cyberbullies, which prevented Chen Mo from worrying the most from happening.

At the same time, she followed Jing Tian to the crew. Although she was called Jing Tian's assistant, in fact, the rich woman was just taking her out to play.

The effect was still very good, because after the matter fermented, everything was developing in a good direction, so Chen Mo simply notified the other party directly.

Let her pay attention.

As the saying goes, "An unkind word chills you through June, but a kind word warms you through three winters."

Seeing so many people supporting her and comforting her, at that moment, the grievances she had felt for these days suddenly burst out. While reading the comments of comfort, hugs and support, she burst into tears.

At the same time, the official Weibo of "Search" and Chen Mo himself also tagged her Weibo to express their support.

In fact, even a fool can see that this time, the incident of the pink-haired female college student was able to take such a quick turn because of the support of Chen Mo and the movie "Search".

However, many people still maintain an optimistic and supportive attitude towards this kind of thing.

After all, it's doing good things.

At the same time, "Search" also released its first trailer.

In sync with the trailer for "Search," Hongjing Law Firm formally filed a lawsuit in court regarding the cyberbullying of a pink-haired female college student.

This private prosecution case broke out immediately.

Because this case, as mentioned before, is the largest in history.

More than two hundred people were prosecuted this time!
The exact number is 202 people!
Moreover, the evidence has been collected and the court has accepted the case.

After this news was announced, it caused a sensation.

#The largest private prosecution case of online defamation in history! (Explosive)

#MoviesReality, over 200 people prosecuted! (Explosive)
#SearchReal-life cyberbullying incident! (Explosion)
For a time, these terms became hot searches and attracted nationwide attention.

There's no way, the scale is just too ridiculous.

The cost of private prosecution alone, with more than 200 people filing lawsuits separately, is equivalent to more than 200 private prosecution cases. Although they will be tried together because they are related cases, the amount is still exaggerated.

This news event was even directly spread abroad!
When it comes to cyber violence, China is actually no match for foreign countries.

But even in their country, which prides itself on having an advanced legal system, there has never been such an exaggerated case.

The key point is that the targets of this prosecution are all from the Internet and were found through the Internet.

In fact, if it were an ordinary person, there would be no way to achieve such a scale. Collecting evidence and finding the people behind those accounts are huge projects.

It was with Chen Mo's financial support that Hongjing Law Firm was able to do everything in advance, hiring Internet hackers at a high price to help the authorities investigate the people behind these accounts, and investing a lot of manpower and material resources to collect the evidence.

As for mobilizing the power of netizens, letting them spontaneously hype up this matter and making the remarks of those cyberbullies meet the standards for filing a case, it is actually the easiest thing to do.

Compared with the "first case of online defamation", this is not the "first case of online violence", but its scale is larger, so large that many people find it outrageous.

Therefore, the attention it receives is even higher and more exaggerated.

It was even so exaggerated that even Chen Mo felt a little embarrassed, because the attention paid to this case even overshadowed the popularity of the movie "Search".

Of course, there is a certain connection between the two, so it is not a bad thing.

As the trial date was set, the cyberbullies who received court summons were all dumbfounded.

Then overnight, all the comments, videos, etc. that had previously slandered, abused, and cursed the pink-haired female college student were deleted, and one by one they publicly apologized on the Internet.

Unfortunately, Hongjing Law Firm, on behalf of the client, expressed its unwillingness to accept any form of mediation.

For a time, everyone was paying attention to the official trial date of this case. What’s interesting is that, I don’t know if it was a coincidence, the court scheduled the trial date for this case to be December 2012, 12!
You should know that the original release date of "Search" was December 12!
Then, many netizens simply called this day "Anti-Cyber ​​Violence Day!"

Although this statement is just a spontaneous behavior of netizens and has not been officially recognized, it has a broad mass base.

There's no way, it's just such a coincidence. Double 12 is a very special date, and it's also the rare 32nd day, which is similar to last year's Shengun Day.

However, movies released in the same period, such as Lu Chuan, could not help but curse.

Because the premiere date of his movie "The Banquet" is November 11th!
Although the time is staggered, the problem is that during this period, all the publicity resources are occupied by the topic of "cyberbullying".

Netizens are discussing the topic of cyberbullying on the Internet, and even television media are producing various programs and news on related topics.

Many people can't help but recall the fear dominated by topics such as "Singles' Day" and "broken heart" during last year's Double Eleven.

Here he comes again!
While promoting his film, Rikutaro suddenly complained, "Some people in our industry don't care about making good movies, and all they do is try to come up with some shady tactics every day."

(End of this chapter)