After the rectification of the internet: obscene and pornographic content still exists, and the content is more hidden

  Legal Daily News (Reporter Han Dandong Intern Li Ziwei) Since the beginning of this year, the "Net 2018" campaign has attracted the attention of all sectors of society, and many departments have taken actions to create a healthier and better cyberspace. Up to now, the rectification fields include audio-visual program products, Weibo, second shot, good-looking video, good rabbit video, fast video, short video such as tiger teeth and fighting fish, live broadcast websites, comprehensive video websites such as Tencent Video, Youku and iQiyi, and client software.

  Under a series of actions by the competent authorities, the media also supervise the network audio-visual field by public opinion. CCTV has called the roll for many times this year, covering such fields as online games with pornographic violence, live webcasting platforms, ASMR audio content and animations involving incest and pornographic content.

  A series of centralized rectification has achieved initial results, and most of the applications that spread bad information have been rectified. The reporter has been unable to find illegal content by searching keywords on the pages of several well-known online audio-visual platforms.

  However, under strict rectification, there are still people who commit crimes against the wind. Guo Jie, a graduate student at a university in Beijing, told reporters: "After the rectification, the big video websites have changed a lot, but there are still a lot of content, and some people still push the information about pornography to the website or Baidu cloud disk."

  Play "edge ball" to attract users

  Audio-visual programs about pornographic violence spread in mass media channels have been effectively rectified, and obscene pornographic content promoted through interpersonal communication or community communication still exists at present because of its strong concealment and great difficulty in cracking down.

  The Chinese translation of ASMR is "spontaneous perceptual meridian response", which is a new word used to describe the perceptual phenomenon. It is characterized by the stimulation of vision, hearing, touch, smell or perception, which makes people have a unique and pleasant sense of stimulation in the skull, scalp, back or other areas of the body, also known as "intracranial orgasm". After the introduction of China, a considerable number of audio, video and pictures with strong sexual implications spread vulgar and even obscene pornographic content under the guise of ASMR.

  In June this year, the National Office of "Combating Pornography and Illegal Publications" interviewed the heads of many websites, such as Netease Cloud Music, Baidu Network Disk, Cat Ear FM and Dragonfly FM, and asked all platforms to vigorously clean up the ASMR content related to pornography and vulgarity, and strengthen the supervision and audit of related content.

  Guo Jie told reporters: "ASMR is also in the process of rectification. After the rectification, the title of ASMR is gone, and all of them have been changed into audio content with sexual suggestion with the title of helping sleep and hypnosis, which can be found on many audio network platforms in China." 

  The live broadcast platform cooperates with the social software community to introduce public live broadcast behavior into the private sphere and then conduct transactions, which is the usual practice of some network anchors.

  The reporter searched with "ASMR" as the key word on several domestic live broadcast platforms, and there were no relevant search results. Search with "sleep-helping" as the key word, and a lot of content is being broadcast live. Most of the anchors in these live broadcast rooms are young women in revealing clothes. The anchor attracts the audience with revealing clothes and strong suggestive voice, and then displays the QQ group fan number or WeChat group number of the anchor on the barrage or live page.

  A netizen who didn’t want to be named told the reporter, "There are often a lot of pornographic videos or fake ASMR in the group files of such QQ groups, most of which are free, and some small videos need to be paid, ranging from 20 yuan to 50 yuan. The phenomenon of pornographic live broadcast in QQ group has been going on for a long time, and many anti-pornography actions have not affected it. "

  The reporter added a micro-signal provided by an anchor. The other party first sent a voice with sexual suggestion for more than 30 seconds, and then recommended the audio of 20 yuan and 50 yuan to the reporter, and promised that it would contain explicit obscene pornographic content.

  In addition to ASMR, there are a large number of network anchors in live video websites playing "edge ball" in live broadcast. In a live broadcast application, the top network anchors are all women, ranging in age from their twenties to their forties and fifties, mostly young women.

  These anchors are wearing thick makeup and revealing clothes in front of the camera, constantly talking about sexually provocative content, and some anchors will also swear. The anchors recommended in the page have more than 2000 real-time views.

  The main content of the live broadcast is to persuade fans to brush gifts and meet some requirements of fans. In the barrage, fans keep commenting on "lower your clothes" and "stand up and look at your shorts".

  A live broadcast platform is holding an anchor PK activity recently. Two anchors are cut into one screen, and they are allowed to perform talent PK within a specified time. The PK result is determined by the number of fans’ rewards, and the failed anchor will be punished. These punishments include the failure of the anchor to write Chinese characters on his chest with eyebrow pencil and then erase them, or to dance according to the requirements of another anchor and fans.

  The anchor divides camps in the process of PK, calling on his fans to brush gifts to "defeat" each other, and at the same time meeting more requirements of fans within the specified time. In this process, the anchor will make a lot of provocative behaviors, even swearing after PK failure.

  The live broadcast page constantly pops up system messages in the form of barrage. The message prompts: "Starlight conducts a 24-hour inspection of live broadcast content, and users can report pornographic content when they find it." However, the reporter did not find a reporting channel in the platform.

  In this platform, users can use the third-party software such as WeChat, QQ and Weibo to log in with one click. When the membership level reaches level 4, they can privately trust the anchor, and at level 11, they can prevent silence. At present, they can upgrade their membership level by brushing gifts to increase their experience value.

  Avoid censorship by interpersonal communication

  The reporter’s investigation found that many obscene pornographic applications are promoted by human flesh, hiring people to advertise in games, post bars, websites and forums, and shouting "welfare video software plus WeChat and QQ" on the channel all day.

  An insider told reporters, "criminals who spread and promote pornographic applications and websites prefer to use another way — — Make way for some ‘ Li ’ Let users take the initiative to promote. "

  Subsequently, he provided an App QR code for a video application, with the code "F6EFRP" under the QR code. The reporter scanned the QR code, which is a link to download this application. After downloading, there are a lot of obscene pornographic videos in this application. The person familiar with the matter said: "The application that uses this promotion method generates personal promotion QR code for you. For example, ordinary users can only watch ten minutes or a video a day, and scanning this code download software with a number will improve your authority. It is efficient and safe, and it is spread by acquaintances, and it does not need to pass the review of the app store, so the possibility of being reported is greatly reduced."

  The promotion and application can not only upgrade the authority, but also directly commission. Application promotion has been developed into an industry. Searching for "application promotion" related keywords on Baidu can find various companies and individuals that provide this service.

  The reporter found an application promotion merchant in "Promotion Bar" and asked him if he could promote an application that could not be put on the shelves in the app store. The other party replied: "The application promotion fee is priced according to the specific App. Generally, 3 yuan started, and the application involving pornography is not impossible, but it is relatively difficult and needs to be increased."

  On the one hand, such businesses provide application promotion and registration services, on the other hand, they also recruit a large number of part-time employees in QQ groups and post bars to promote applications, and then provide part-time employees with a draw according to the promotion amount, which is generally two yuan per order.

  The insider revealed, "There is an industrial chain in this field, which has a large profit margin, and there has always been a market, so it will be ‘ Wildfire never quite consumes them, they are tall once more in the spring wind ’ . One is to collect advertising fees by large traffic, the other is to attract people to recharge or apply for membership directly by resources, and the third is to rely on illegal links, such as gambling websites. Many yellow websites rely on click-through rates, and then click on the link to directly enter online gambling. "

  Guo Jie also told reporters that in the process of playing online games or visiting forums, he often saw people advertising for pornographic applications or websites, "it is not surprising." He added: "There are a large number of minors playing online games, and they will certainly come into contact with such advertisements frequently during the game. In this case, pornographic content is actually very easy for them, just click on the link or scan the code."

  Strengthen the accuracy of law enforcement

  According to the Eighth Investigation Report on the Internet Usage of Minors in China, 91.6% of minors have the experience of using the Internet, which is much higher than the overall internet access rate of netizens in China.

  Wang Li works in Shanxi Branch of China Life Insurance Company. Her son is in the first grade of junior high school this year. She is full of worries about the bad information on the Internet.

  "Once I accidentally saw my son reading an online novel, I checked the novel and found that it was full of violence and yellow content, and I was very worried about affecting his physical and mental health. Now that the Internet is so open, it is impossible for parents to completely restrict their children from watching and not watching. " Wang Li said.

  In view of this phenomenon, Professor Wang Sixin, deputy dean of the School of Politics and Law, Communication University of China, said: "Internet pornographic content has been repeatedly banned because it has a certain demand, and content producers have also grasped this point. However, it will mainly have a negative impact on minors. The values of minors have not yet formed, the resolution is relatively low, and they like to imitate. We have the responsibility to create a healthy cyberspace for minors. "

  Zheng Ning, deputy director of the Law Department of Communication University of China, told the reporter that at present, China’s network supervision laws and regulations mainly include the Network Security Law, the Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services, the Provisions on the Administration of Internet Audio-visual Program Services and the Interim Provisions on the Administration of Internet Culture. On June 30, 2017, China Network Audio-visual Program Service Association issued the General Rules for Content Auditing of Network Audio-visual Programs, which clearly stipulated that "the content or plot of network audio-visual programs that render obscene pornography and vulgar taste, endanger social morality, and have adverse effects on minors should be truncated, deleted and broadcast".

  "However, because network supervision is an emerging monitoring field spawned by the rapid development of the Internet, the practice time is not long, and it can only move forward in exploration." Zheng Ning said.

  Wang Sixin said: "Except for some people who blindly pursue economic benefits, the requirements for online content in relevant laws and regulations are not particularly specific at present, and the content standards need to be strengthened. Another is that the cleaning and filtering of bad content needs to strengthen the intensity and depth of law enforcement, strengthen the accuracy of law enforcement, and let relevant industries and personnel take advantage of it. "