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The "Room N" incident in South Korea is gradually fermenting. The more people know about it, the more creepy it becomes.
From the second half of 2018 to March 2020, a large-scale online transmission of "sex crime videos" occurred on the anonymous social software Telegram. Victims include a large number of minors (especially middle school students), and even 11-year-old girls and babies. It is not yet possible to count the number of victims, but some media estimate that the number of victims may have reached tens of thousands.
These girls are being "sexually persecuted" and "sexually exploited" in ways that are unimaginable to ordinary people.
Most of the victims were first hunted on Twitter. The hunters disguised themselves as various characters, defrauded them of their photos step by step, and threatened them that if they did not give more revealing photos, their information would be sent to their classmates and other acquaintances. However, once the revealing photos are given, the hunters will coerce these girls to degenerate step by step.
"Room N" calls the children who fall into the trap "slaves." Some of them are asked to engrave the word "slave" on their bodies, and some are asked to do such cruel things as nipple removal, and it is even more common to be forced to provide obscene videos about themselves to "room N" .
"Room N" is not even satisfied with online sexual abuse, they will also take the slaves offline to rape directly, and the video is shared in real time. From the view of the viewers of the video, the objects of sexual assault are "pets" and "slaves", with no human dignity at all. They would cheer about the rape and even type out the lines "Let's rape together".
No one knows what kind of blows the girls who were persecuted by "Room N" suffered.secondary titleCarrier: anonymous social software + digital currency
Not long ago, Carbon Chain Value wrote an article about Weibo data leakage
"Behind the information leak of 500 million Weibo users: the entanglement between BTC and dark web data"
. The data of 500 million users is sold on the dark web. The sales channel is the anonymous social software Telegram, and the payment method is the digital currency Bitcoin and Ethereum.
In this "Room N" incident, the carrier of the incident is still the anonymous social software Telegram, and the payment method is also Bitcoin. Through Bitcoin, the criminal group will charge members a fee ranging from 250,000 to 1.5 million won. The chat room with the most people was as high as 23,000 people, and the number of members in the peak period was as high as 260,000.
The most frightening thing is that 260,000 people watched "Room N", but in the end only 2 college students chose to report to the police.
This line of thinking seems unbelievable to ordinary people. However, if we change to a slightly lighter example, we may be able to glimpse this psychology a little bit. ——For those who buy data on the dark web, spy on other people's house opening records, or those who human flesh and bully others, they don't feel that the fault is mainly their own.
In the eyes of these people, they just passed through the supervision that can be involved in daily life, and enjoyed a kind of "free service" in a free zone. The businessmen who provide "free services" and the police who do not police well are to be held accountable.
But the general public apparently doesn't think so. In South Korea, more than 1.3 million people have petitioned the Blue House, demanding the release of the true identities of these 260,000 people. People are outraged by the perverted taste of this group and demand justice for them.
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The Boundary of Freedom and the Evil of Human Nature
In order to resist political censorship like "1984" and to safeguard the freedom and dignity of citizens, anonymous software and free cash have always been important research directions of Internet pioneer organizations. However, the duality of these tools is increasingly revealed.
After being freed from government supervision and the shackles of real identities in daily life, people's speech and actions are certainly "free", but the boundaries of "freedom" have also blurred.
If there is a place where everyone can be in a state of freedom without restriction, is this place a paradise?
No. "Room N" is a veritable hell.
As I write this, I think of an author who was lurking in the "Social Engineering Library" (a Weibo 500 million user data seller) a few days ago. After he reported the incident, his relevant information was released by everyone. Although I don't know how this incident will affect the author in the future, being "human fleshed" because of the revelation is a terrifying act in itself.
If a person's freedom is the oppression of others, it will even directly cause people to lose their dignity and the hope of living. What justice is there in such freedom? While seeking to break through government censorship, how do the pioneers of the online world deal with the various moral issues posed by the "abundance of freedom"?
We should think more deeply on the issue of "network governance".
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Digital currencies should embrace regulation
Should digital currencies be regulated by the government? This is a question that has been discussed for a long time.
If so, this will naturally damage the early "liberal" ideals of the cryptocurrency community; if not, the community will not be able to give good answers to the various problems that are currently emerging.
Now the answer is more and more inclined to "yes".
Just imagine such a scene! When you tell your friends that you hold Bitcoin, they ask you: "Are you going to watch a movie on Telegram? Or do you want to see someone's house opening record?" You think you are holding a kind of "pioneer" money, but Others think you are holding an "evil" kind of money. For you who love Bitcoin, what kind of feeling is this?
Whether it is money laundering, pornography, drug and gun transactions, dark web data transactions, or human trafficking, fraud and pyramid schemes, these black industries have cast a shadow over the development and growth of cryptocurrencies. If it cannot escape from this shadow, cryptocurrencies can only stay in place in the gray.
