Keep the boundary of anonymous roast, media: clear the "network toilet" network | netizens | toilet
"The photos I posted on my social platform were inexplicably 'hung up' by others, who made many derogatory remarks about me, and the comment area was also full of personal attacks on me." Recently, Legal Daily focused on the phenomenon of "hung up on the toilet" - some photos, behaviors or comments of the parties on the network were submitted to the "toilet number" of the social platform by netizens, also known as the "online toilet", which is a popular type of voice across the air account in the anime, Star Chasers and game circles. Netizens can send private letters to the account through the background, and the account owner will send the contributions anonymously. Due to the anonymity of submissions, many people regard the "online toilet" as a place to freely vent their emotions.
It is not a new phenomenon to vent emotions through anonymous shouting on public online accounts. The once popular university confession wall and roast tree hole belong to this category. The current "toilet accounts" have motives for anonymous submissions from netizens, such as creating stories to attract attention or simply venting negative emotions. Radicality, negativity, and extremism are the common features of their published content, which not only includes various "hanging people", insults, sarcasm, and even pornography and violence, "like a dirty and chaotic emotional toilet.". Under this collective atmosphere, a vulgar "toilet culture" has emerged, with many netizens calling themselves "toilet girls" or "toilet friends" and taking pleasure in cursing them.
Essentially, disclosing the privacy of others and maliciously spreading rumors and slander through "toilet numbers" is a form of online violence. Previously, some "hanging the toilet" behaviors have also caused victims to experience depression, self harm, and even suicide. What is even more concerning is that many participants in "hanging toilets" are minors, and the submitted content is mostly dissatisfaction or even cursing towards schools, classmates, teachers, etc. Long term immersion in "toilet culture" is obviously not conducive to children forming the correct values.
The existence of "toilet numbers" has received widespread attention. For example, some netizens have saved screenshots of relevant content that leads to war and verbal abuse, and reported it to relevant platforms; Public welfare individuals provide free legal aid services to victims.
The Civil Code, the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments, and other laws and regulations have made corresponding regulations on behaviors such as abusing others at will, insulting their personality, and leaking their privacy. However, due to the anonymity and concealment of the infringement behavior of "online toilets", as well as the relatively closed circle, victims face significant difficulties in identifying the infringing subject, fixing evidence, and evaluating damage results when defending their rights.
The Guiding Opinions on Punishing Cyber Violence and Illegal Crimes in accordance with the Law and the Regulations on the Governance of Cyber Violence Information, which have just concluded the solicitation of opinions, are proposed to "focus on cracking down on malicious initiators, organizers, promoters, and those who refuse to improve." Corresponding regulatory measures have been proposed for online violence from the aspects of monitoring and early warning of online violence information, disposal of online violence information, and protection mechanisms.
Any participant in online violence should pay a corresponding price. At present, the most important thing to clean up "toilet accounts" is to cut off the possibility of related content being published and circulated from the source. The platform should take on the main responsibility, do a good job of front-end anonymity and back-end real name work for the identity information of platform users, closely monitor the trend of "online toilets", optimize and improve the sensitive word processing system, and let illegal content lose the space and possibility of publication; Judicial organs should smooth the litigation process, provide effective legal remedies in a timely manner, and, when necessary, file public interest lawsuits against parties who fail to fulfill their information network security management obligations in accordance with the law, cause a large amount of illegal information to spread, or have other serious circumstances that harm the public interest, using judicial means to protect the public interest.
While cleaning up the "toilet number", we should pay more attention to those teenagers who may be poisoned by the "toilet culture", strengthen the rule of law education and mental health education for the youth group, and help those children who have growth problems out of the predicament in time, rather than let them complain and vent on the Internet in isolation.
