A "Bronze Beard Incident"
Tell you something about the Bronze Beard incident. In April 2006, a sad husband published a long letter of 5,000 words on the Internet, denouncing a college student named "Bronze Beard" for having an affair with his wife. Immediately, hundreds of people rashly joined the battle group of cyber attacks without verifying the facts. One of them even suggested "using the keyboard as a weapon to cut off the head of the adulterer and give it to her husband as a sacrifice". ?
In just a few days, hundreds of thousands of netizens jointly issued an online killing order against Bronze Beard, searched and published the student's real name, identity, address and life details, called on the society to ban Bronze Beard, and "called on the vast number of institutions, enterprises and hospitals ... to boycott XX (formerly known as Bronze Beard) and its companions. Do not recruit, deny, ignore ... If the "Bronze Beard Incident" is an accidental cyber violence incident, however, in China, the "Bronze Beard Incident" is by no means accidental. On the contrary, it is a microcosm of China's repeated cyber moral recovery incidents, such as "Rola Chen's prostitution to save her mother" and "cat abuse", which are very typical cyber violence.
2 "Megan incident"
How serious is cyber violence? How easy it is to hurt people around you. In the United States, cyber violence directly led to a girl who was only 13 years old committing suicide. What about the famous cyber violence case: Megan incident? Let's take a look together.
/kloc-Megan Meier, a 0/3-year-old American girl, committed suicide by cyber violence at home because she couldn't bear the vicious abuse of netizens. However, although the culprit of this incident has been basically determined to be a middle-aged woman, lori drew, the police refused to prosecute her because there was no legal basis. However, her life is not easy. On the Internet and in real life, angry people shouted and beat her. She stayed at home and lost her job. The incident once again exposed the great threat of cyber violence to teenagers.
Megan, 0/3 years old, is Tina's daughter. She is fragile, a little overweight and has been in a bad mood. Tina said that in the third grade, Megan began to hate herself and began to talk about suicide. She was often depressed and distracted. Regular consultation and continuous treatment are needed every week. Megan begged for months before her mother finally agreed to apply for an account on MySpace. Mother thinks it's good for her daughter to make friends through the Internet. After all, Megan is still a sensitive girl and needs emotional communication. But because of this, Megan is very fragile psychologically.
When she was in the seventh grade in West Middle School, Megan became obese and overweight, but she was very lively. She will play volleyball with other students. In school, volleyball players are the most important people after football players. Megan will also imitate the fashionable dress of the sisters. She likes hollister and A &；; F's clothes. Sometimes, she draws too many eyebrows and paints herself like a raccoon. Occasionally, she would happily accept football baby's invitation and sit at the most conspicuous table for lunch.
However, these moments of spring breeze have all disappeared in physical education class. Megan had to take off her big clothes and put on a sweatshirt and a T-shirt. "Every time I go to physical education class, everyone will call her a fat woman," said Laura, her classmate. "Once, I saw her crying in the cloakroom."
After a difficult year, Megan's parents transferred their daughter to a Catholic school called Perfect Body. This school has strict school rules, and students are forbidden to form gangs. Students should wear school uniforms and be assigned to different tables when eating, so that they can have a better communication with everyone.
Megan's friend Rachel (14) said, "There are no gangs of any nature in that school. Although you may have a good relationship with some people, you can go up and talk to everyone, and everyone will respond to you kindly. "
About cyber violence
Megan escaped a terrible experience at school, and she still kept her MySpace page. "In fact, she is not old, because she has to exceed 14 to have a web page," Megan's mother said. "But I know the password, and I will read every message she receives or sends. I think I will ensure safety and let Megan know some friends. "
Later, Megan met a 16-year-old handsome guy named Josh on the Internet. Josh said she was beautiful. However, this Josh doesn't exist. She was invented by the mother of a friend of Megan's, only four families away from their home. Lori Drew is the mother of one of Megan's classmates and lives in the same block as Megan. She created a user on MySpace and lied that she was a little boy named Josh Evans. She and her daughter have been playing tricks on Megan through the internet, making her think that this boy named Josh likes her.
Six weeks later, Josh suddenly changed his face and called her mean. All his friends thought she was dirty. Many other people also joined the cyber violence, calling her a "fat woman" and a "prostitute". Many girls also claimed to be Josh, and sent messages to Megan through MySpace website, saying that they hated her and constantly humiliated her. These girls, who are said to be ignorant, continue to follow posts and hit people when they are down.
At first, 13-year-old Megan began to fight back, using the worst words she could think of to retaliate against those who insulted her, but these led to intensified retaliation from the other side, and more vicious curses came from the Internet, which greatly tested Megan's fragile self-confidence.
"Mom, these people are terrible!" On a phone call, she sobbed into the microphone and told her mother. An hour after the phone call, 13-year-old girl ran into the bedroom and hanged herself on the beam of the wardrobe with a belt.
Tina said that her daughter had suffered this kind of cyber violence. For years, she has been eager for boys to like her. Josh's sudden change of face hit her too hard. "After being greatly insulted, Megan was completely desperate."
What is the impact of Megan's incident in the United States?
Of course, the tragic incident caused by this prank is just an example. Most mothers don't do this, and few teenagers commit suicide like Megan. But Megan's tragedy is a bloody case of cyber violence. Mobile phone photos and text messages, as well as various dating websites, emails and instant messages, give teenagers more ways to tease, tease and even threaten their peers.
Like most atrocities, those who forced Megan to die were cruel and heartless. A large group of them gathered on MySpace, calling Megan a liar, calling her a fat prostitute, and even worse, vicious words. Unlike traditional violence, high-tech violence can happen anytime and anywhere, and teenagers don't even have to meet forever. In the face of anonymous cyber violence, victims often have nowhere to escape.
In Megan Town, teenagers say that they like to use the Internet, and some people do bully others in this excellent way. Some children worry that they will become victims of cyber violence. "Once you go to MySpace, it's like falling into a trap," said Janke, a 0/2-year-old seventh-grade student at Xizhong Middle School. "You will concentrate on the development of the online situation and try your best to avoid the spread of news that is unfavorable to you." This school is also the school that Megan attended before her death.
Usually MySpace website will block the appearance of web pages that attack or intimidate others through manual and technical means. The company said in a written statement that the website also provides users with a way to report cyber violence. However, experts on children's issues say that it is almost impossible to completely avoid such things appearing on the Internet. Most teenagers are not mature enough to rationally face virtual networks and possible anonymous attacks. For example, "teenagers will take everything they say online seriously," said Justin, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and an expert on cyber violence.
Like Megan's case, victims are often isolated, but they are never spared from being hurt. Walter, a professor at the University of Minnesota, said: "In the eyes of the victims, everyone in the whole online world is against them, and no one can protect them." "Cyber violence is not limited to Megan, a young student at school, so please refuse cyber violence. The Internet is used to surf the Internet in a civilized way.