Human-flesh Search Engines in China – NYTimes.com

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China’s Cyberposse

Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

“This is not a human,” wrote BrokenGlasses, a user on Mop, a Chinese online forum. “I have no interest in spreading this video nor can I remain silent. I just hope justice can be done.” That first post elicited thousands of responses. “Find her and kick her to death like she did to the kitten,” one user wrote. Then the inquiries started to become more practical: “Is there a front-facing photo so we can see her more clearly?” The human-flesh search had begun.