The term Human Flesh Search Engine was originally coined in 2001 to describe “a search that was human-powered rather than computer-driven.” Because of the convenient and efficient nature of information sharing in cyberspace, the Human Flesh Search is often used to 146 information usually difficult or impossible to find by other conventional means. Over the years, the Human Flesh Search was repeatedly deployed, sometimes
147 moral crusades against socially unacceptable behaviors, such as political corruption, extramarital affairs or animal cruelties. Individuals on the receiving end often have their real-life identities or private information 148 public, and can be subjected to harassment. One of the first notorious cases of human flesh research involved the search for a taxi driver who allegedly149 his car window to spit on an elderly homeless person lying on the street. Witnesses recorded the first few digits of the spitter’s number plate and publicized the incident. Thousands of netizens then banded together online to 150 the perpetrator. Hours later, they zeroed in on a young man, whose number plate was a partial match, and vowed to see him 151 . Ever since then, the young man was bombarded with harassing calls from perfect strangers, some of 152 even threatened to kill him. When so many strangers focus their attention on a single person, some inevitably go too far and make “flesh-searching” cyberbullying on a mass scale, 153 the unwitting target’s privacy and unfairly smearing the person’s reputation. Last month a Chinese official in charge of internet surveillance stated that the government would go to any 154 to stop this kind of cyberviolence. To avoid legal responsibility, it is imperative that every web user 155 twice before embarking on the so-called online moral crusade.
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