Online avengers' cyber bullying breaks law
A WOMAN IN CHONGQING attempted suicide, because she could no longer bear the endless harassment, humiliation and even physical threats from fans of a novelist, whose network fiction she had criticized. Beijing News comments:
This is the latest case of online victimization. Last month a woman in Deyang, Southwest China's Sichuan province, killed herself because she could not tolerate netizens' harassment and insults after her husband slapped a 13-year-old boy in the face in a swimming pool, as the boy verbally abused her after physical contact that she wanted an apology for.
The two cases show how such cyber bullying can cause tremendous and eventually unbearable mental pressure for the victims. These online "avengers" think that what they are doing is serving justice, but in fact the opposite is true.
