Original title: the first case of 'PUA' emotional manipulation in China
Today, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the public security organ of Jiangsu province that recently, its network security department investigated and dealt with a case of setting up a website to peddle illegal PUA tutorials and disseminating illegal information involving fraud, obscenity and pornography.
It is reported that the case is the first administrative case in China to investigate and deal with the release of illegal PUA information. The full name of PUA is pick up artist, which literally means' pick up artist '. Blackmail and impose exactions on illegal Internet crimes such as fraud, extortion and other illegal activities are seriously illegal, according to the Beijing News survey. The illegal activities of PUA are being disseminated online.
Previously, similar cases were mostly classified as moral issues, and there are great disputes and difficulties in the application of law and evidence collection, but it may cause great harm to the sexual body and psychology of many girls. The director of "Little Red Riding Hood", an anti bad PUA public welfare organization, said that this time through the "network security law" that the dissemination of PUA courses is an illegal act by using the information network, "is equivalent to opening a gap in the legal level. 'in the PUA related group, many people are talking about it. 'it has a great alerting effect, reminding those who walk on the edge of danger. It's also a good inspiration for those who are defending their rights. '
In the video teaching courseware, students are taught how to cheat girls out of money, which is called "squeezing" technology.
Operation website abets violence to conquer women, the content of Internet disk reaches 2000g
It is understood that PUA originally refers to men's behavior of self-improvement EQ through systematic learning. Later, it generally refers to people who will attract and fascinate the opposite sex and their related behaviors. Now it has gradually evolved into the pronouns of online learning and communication, such as "engagement" and "quick push".
According to Song Xing, a person in charge of the Internet supervision and management section of the network security corps of Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department, PUA has aroused great concern from public opinion and the public. In last year's' net 2018 'special action, the Ministry of public security required all localities to clean up and rectify the illegal online peddling of PUA tutorials.
According to the person in charge, during the rectification process, Lianyungang police found a PUA teaching website called "the villain alliance" during the network inspection, and students can spend more than 1000 yuan on relevant courses. In addition to the content collected on the Internet, Xu, the website operator, will also shoot his own videos and sell them to students as courses. In three months, Xu sold dozens of courses through the website, making a profit of more than 30000 yuan.
After checking the contents of the 2000g Internet disk, the police found that in addition to teaching students how to shape their own image and pretend to be 'rich and handsome', they also used 'suicide encouragement', 'pet cultivation' and 'crazy exploitation' as selling points, and directly called Women 'pets' or' prey ', abetting successful disguisers to lure women who are not involved in the world to cheat money or property, or teaching them how to conquer them violently and make them collapse They are irrational and even commit suicide.
The police decided that these courses should not be simply regarded as' moral issues'. "It is obviously illegal to directly instigate women to cut their wrists, commit suicide or make obvious pornographic videos. If these evidences are fixed, it can be proved that the parties concerned are disseminating illegal information and corresponding administrative measures can be taken against the publishers. '
According to the investigation, Xu (male, 24 years old, from Lianyungang) intentionally imparted to the buyers the so-called experience and skills of defrauding women's money, intentionally injuring women's bodies, inducing women to commit suicide and so on through language, text, video, image and other means, which constituted Article 46 of the Internet Security Law of the people's Republic of China. At present, Xu has been detained for five days and fined 50000 yuan, related websites and communication groups have been ordered to close, and illegal PUA courses have been cleared.
PUA courses were previously classified as' yellow related 'problems, and it is difficult to obtain evidence
According to a previous report by the Beijing News, Huang, whose online name is "the danger of temptation", once taught PUA through social network. The course is called "five step trap emotion manipulation", with the selling points of "suicide encouragement", "pet cultivation" and "crazy extraction". Beijing News reporter undercover investigation found that in addition to teaching, Huang also instructed students in the group how to camouflage their identity to deceive, and often released yellow pictures and videos to share 'results'.
In this regard, the person in charge of the Song family said that PUA belongs to specific information in a specific environment. "It is difficult to obtain evidence, but the harm may be very great. It does great harm to many girls' physical and psychological health. In previous similar cases, the method of deleting information and shutting down websites was generally adopted. "Because there are great disputes and difficulties in the application of law and evidence collection in similar cases, many legal experts believe that PUA should be classified as a moral thing. But once this kind of thing becomes a real danger, it may cause women self mutilation, suicide and so on.
Kong Weiwei is the director of little red riding hood, a public welfare organization against undesirable PUA. She said that people who suffer from PUA injuries in close relationships will have different degrees of traumatic stress disorder, including physical and psychological. But the law generally judges the consequences that have been caused. Many of the injuries in intimate relationships can not be quantified, and it is difficult to grasp the evidence. Therefore, even if someone can come out to protect their rights in the face of great pressure, many of them will be dealt with as "involving pornography" and "involving violence".
Kong Weiwei said that the Little Red Riding Hood team had studied the content of PUA courses before, and found that in many cases, due to the limitation of quantity and other aspects, the courses involved could not even be identified as obscene content, which was only slightly linked to the anti domestic violence law. She said that this time through the "network security law" that the dissemination of PUA courses is the use of information networks to carry out illegal acts, "equivalent to opening a gap in the legal level. 'Many of her PUA related discussion groups are also discussing this. 'it has a great alerting effect, reminding those who walk on the edge of danger. It's also a good inspiration for those who are defending their rights. '
Lawyer: pay more attention to the harm of PUA students' behavior to society
Zhang Jie, a lawyer of Guangdong Gufa law firm, has helped a number of PUA victims to protect their rights. He believes that in addition to paying attention to PUA courses and contents, we should pay more attention to the social harm caused by students' behavior.
After contacting several PUA victims, he learned that because of the harm of heterosexual intimate relationship, the victim could not establish an intimate relationship with others for several years, which had a great impact on his own marriage and normal family organization.
'it's not a simple moral thing, and we don't have to call it PUA. It may be the implementation of violence against the opposite sex, through fictitious facts to cheat money, cheat sex, and even rape, which obviously violates the criminal law. Zhang Jie said that the core content of PUA course is about the teaching of skills.
In Zhang Jie's view, many so-called PUA tutors and schools in the market are just for making money, to attract and cater to learners, and to instigate them to commit crimes. 'a lot of people have committed crimes and they don't even know it. If we want to eliminate the spread of PUA courses, we may be able to crack down on such illegal and criminal acts from the source.