Man Targeted by Cyber Hanhunt Wins Case Against Chinese “Human Flesh Search Engine”
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A man who lost his job and was harassed by strangers after his infidelity to his late wife was detailed online has won China’s first case against Internet vigilantism, the China Daily said on Friday.
A Beijing court ruled Wang Fei’s reputation had been damaged by his late wife’s university classmate, Zhang Leyi, who posted online the diary excerpts she wrote months before she killed herself, and by the internet company that hosted the comments.
Internet users angered by the story mounted a cyber manhunt for the twenty-something Wang, mobilizing the phenomenon known in China as the “human flesh search engine.”
From censorship to internet addiction to human flesh search engine, the Chinese internet is a source of endless weirdness. It would all be really amusing, if it wasn’t vaguely disturbing.
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