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星期四, 六月 08, 2006
海外媒体关注铜须事件 批评中国网民是暴民
张三按：这和方舟子新语丝所谓的“学术打假”，无论是语言还是逻辑还是形式还是辩护词，都并无二致。新语丝所谓的“学术打假”，就是在学界实施的暴力娱乐。这也是对为什么方舟子之流在中国大有市场的一个很好诠释。
铜须、红高粱和道德民兵
朱大可在全球媒体的惊呼声中，“铜须事件”终于落下了帷幕。
4月13日，在“猫扑网”旗下“魔兽世界中国”论坛，一位悲情丈夫声称自己的妻子幽月儿有了外遇，并且公布了妻子和情人长达五千字的QQ对话，慷慨激昂地痛斥与妻子有染的小人物“铜须”，随后，数百人在未经事实验证的前提下，轻率地加入网络攻击的战团，其中有人建议“以键盘为武器砍下奸夫的头，献给那位丈夫做祭品”，天涯网站也贴出《江湖追杀令》，发布“铜须”的照片和视频，“呼吁广大机关、企业、公司、学校、医院、商场、公路、铁路、机场、中介、物流、认证，对XX及其同伴甚至所在大学进行抵制。不招聘、不录用、不接纳、不认可、不承认、不理睬、不合作。在他做出彻底的、令大众可信的悔改行为之前，不能对他表示认同。”
就在短短数天之内，这支“哄客游击队”发展到了数万人之多。人们搜出“铜须”的真实身份和地址，用各种方式羞辱其尊严，把他逼出大学校园，甚至迫使其家人不敢出门和接听电话，令当事人身心受到严重伤害。为了平息事端，“铜须”用长达六分钟的视频来否认桃色事件，而那位“受害者”丈夫，也承认对其妻红杏出墙的说法多有不实之处，从而请求网民取消追杀，但还是无法平息这场惊天动地的网络骚乱。
央视对这一事件作出了反应，批评网民的行为是“网络暴力”，但避免就第三者事件本身做出道德评价。而网民则在“天涯”组织起了新一轮的反击运动，批评央视 “支持骗奸人家老婆”，“如此贯彻八荣八耻教育，央视颜面何存”等，为其在“铜须”事件中所采用的围猎方式辩护。
“铜须事件”引发海外媒体的严重关切。《纽约时报》、《国际先驱论坛报》和《南德意志报》等欧美报纸，相继刊发报道，质疑中国网民的做法是对个人权利（隐私权、情感和生活方式选择权等）的严重侵犯。《国际先驱论坛报》以《以键盘为武器的中国暴民》为题，激烈抨击中国网民的“暴民现象”。在西方人看来，这场虚拟事件正在演变成大规模群体性暴力，并已成为人类文明进程中的不和谐音。
中国拥有悠久的道德民兵传统。只要查一下历史就不难发现，将所谓通奸男女游街示众，甚至动用私刑加以杀害，乃是中国道德审判的基本样式，它散发出“多数人暴政”的狂热气息。20世纪80年代，经历十年浩劫的知识分子，在人道主义思潮和“新启蒙运动”的推动下，向民众提供了大量反思“封建伦理”的文艺作品。王安忆小说《荒山之恋》，沉痛叙写了两个已婚男女的情爱悲剧；根据沈从文小说改编的电影《湘女潇潇》，以族人把“淫妇”装入竹笼沉潭而死的情节，控诉宗法制度对所谓“通奸者”的残酷迫害；根据陆文夫小说改编的电影《井》、根据郑义小说改编的《老井》，以及张艺谋导演的《菊豆》，都试图对“通奸现象”中所蕴含的微妙人性，予以有力辩解。《红高粱》更以一曲“妹妹你大胆地往前走”的“轿夫之歌”，对“通奸美学”作出了最高礼赞，显示八十年代道德反思的巨大勇气。
所有这些作品都试图告诫国人，“第三者现象”不是简单的道德沦丧，而是“黑暗的政治（封建）制度”下的复杂情变；对此不能以宗教裁判所的方式加以严惩，而应根据具体情形仔细辨析，并对其中所蕴含的“真善美的人性”，予以理解、同情与呵护。但这种“反封建”的文化启蒙，无力改变乡村暴力的坚硬传统，恰恰相反，它还要在捍卫传统道德的旗号下卷土重来。这无疑是新启蒙运动的最大失败。究其原因，是由于它所发动的“封建道德”批判，仅限于对人性的美学讴歌，却没有完成现代伦理学（情感主体的自由选择权力及其限度）的法理建构。
2005年6月，一群在温州打工的贵州民工，为“惩罚”族内通奸者，居然动用“家法”和私刑，以“正义”的名义，将“男犯”乱刀砍死。经过“五四新文化运动”、“社会主义运动”和“新启蒙运动”的反复清洗，旧伦理竟然继续保持着鲁迅所描述的“吃人”本性，重写了21世纪中国伦理史的黑暗一页。
然而，本次“铜须事件”的主角并非愚昧的旧式乡农，而是大批受过现代化教育的城市哄客，他们以“无名氏”的方式，躲藏在黑暗的数码丛林里，高举话语暴力的武器，狙击那些被设定为“有罪”的道德猎物。耐人寻味的是，事件参与者大多是某个游戏联盟的成员，这意味着猎杀不仅出于某种道德渴望，而且也是集体娱乐的需要。
互联网的“善恶双重品格”，是这项数码技术带给我们的最大困惑。在2001至2004年间，“互联网之善”一度表现出某种令人激动的特性。面对孙志刚案及其一系列侵犯百姓权益的案件，正是互联网民意促成“暂住证”的取消，改善了底层民众的生存状况，显示出互联网的强大能量。但此后，“互联网之恶”却逐步上升为主导因素。哄客社会没有发育出健康的公民团体，为捍卫民权和推进宪政提供理性支持，反而滋养了蒙面的网络民兵，在针对“小人物”的话语围猎中，不倦地探求道德和游戏的双重狂欢。这是互联网民主的歧路，也是中国哄客自我反省的沉重起点。
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纽约时报：Online Throngs Impose a Stern Morality in China
By HOWARD W. FRENCHPublished: June 3, 2006
SHANGHAI, June 2 — It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of the country's most popular Internet bulletin boards from a husband denouncing a college student he suspected of having an affair with his wife. Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack.
"Let's use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons," one person wrote, "to chop off the heads of these adulterers, to pay for the sacrifice of the husband."
Within days, the hundreds had grown to thousands, and then tens of thousands, with total strangers forming teams that hunted down the student, hounded him out of his university and caused his family to barricade themselves inside their home.
It was just the latest example of a growing phenomenon the Chinese call Internet hunting, in which morality lessons are administered by online throngs and where anonymous Web users come together to investigate others and mete out punishment for offenses real and imagined.
In recent instances, people have scrutinized husbands suspected of cheating on their wives, fraud on Internet auction sites, the secret lives of celebrities and unsolved crimes. One case that drew a huge following involved the poisoning of a Tsinghua University student, an event that dates to 1994 but was revived by curious strangers after word spread that the only suspect in the case had been questioned and released.
Even a recent scandal involving a top Chinese computer scientist dismissed for copying the design of an American processor came to light in part because of Internet hunting, with scores of online commentators raising questions about the project and putting pressure on the scientist's sponsors to look into the allegations.
While Internet wars can crop up anywhere, these cases have set off alarms in China, where this sort of crowd behavior has led to violence in the past. Many draw disturbing parallels to the Cultural Revolution, whose 40th anniversary is this year, when mobs of students taunted and beat their professors. Mass denunciations and show trials became the order of the day for a decade.
In recent years, the government has gradually tightened controls on the Internet, censoring popular search engines, like Google and Technorati; employing thousands of Web police officers; and requiring that customers at Internet cafes provide identification.
There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all Internet users, and many worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users.
The affair of the cuckolded husband first came to public attention in mid-April, after the man, who goes by the Web name Freezing Blade, discovered online correspondence between his wife, Quiet Moon, and a college student, Bronze Mustache. After an initial conversation, in which he forgave his wife, the man discovered messages on his wife's computer that confirmed to him that the liaison was continuing. He then posted the letter denouncing Bronze Mustache, and identifying him by his real name.
The case exploded on April 20, when a bulletin board manifesto against Bronze Mustache was published by someone using the name Spring Azalea.
"We call on every company, every establishment, every office, school, hospital, shopping mall and public street to reject him," it said. "Don't accept him, don't admit him, don't identify with him until he makes a satisfying and convincing repentance."
Impassioned people teamed up to uncover the student's address and telephone number, both of which were then posted online. Soon, people eager to denounce him showed up at his university and at his parents' house, forcing him to drop out of school and barricade himself with his family in their home.
Others denounced the university for not expelling him, with one poster saying it should be "bombed by Iranian missiles." Many others said the student should be beaten or beheaded, or that he and the married woman should be put in a "pig cage" and drowned.
"Right from the beginning, every day there have been people calling and coming to our house, and we have all been very upset," said the student's father, who was interviewed by telephone but insisted that he not be identified by name, to avoid further harassment. "This is an awful thing, and the Internet companies should stop these attacks, but we haven't spoken with them. I wouldn't know whom to speak to."
In hopes of quieting the criticism, Bronze Mustache issued a six-minute online video denying any affair with Quiet Moon, whom he is said to have met at a gathering of enthusiasts of the online game World of Warcraft. At the same time, Freezing Blade has twice asked people to call off the attacks, even joining in the denials of an affair — all to no avail.
At its height, the Bronze Mustache case accounted for huge traffic increases on China's Internet bulletin boards, including a nearly 10 percent increase in daily traffic on Tianya, the bulletin board with the most users.
In many countries, electronic bulletin boards hark back to the earliest days of the Internet, before Web browsers were common, and when text messages were posted in static fashion in stark black and white. In today's China, however, bulletin boards, or BBS's, have been colorfully updated and remain at the heart of the country's Internet culture.
"Our Web site is a platform, not a court," said Zeng Liu, a Webmaster for Tianya, which reports 40 million page visits daily and claims to be the world's largest BBS. "We cannot judge who is a good or bad person by some moral standard, but we have our own bottom line. If it's a personal attack on someone, we delete it, but it is very difficult, given that we have 10 million users."
Although concerned about online threats, advocates of free speech say that is no reason for the Chinese authorities to place further limits on the Internet.
"The Internet should be free, and I have always opposed the idea of registering users, because this is perhaps the only channel we have for free discussion," said Zhu Dake, a sociologist and cultural critic at Tongji University, in Shanghai. "On the other hand, the Internet is being distorted. This creates a very difficult dilemma for us."
Zhan Jiang, a professor of journalism at China Youth University of Political Science, in Beijing, said: "As freedom of expression is not well protected here, we have to choose the lighter of two evils. The minority who are hurting other people in such cases should be prevented, but this behavior should not disturb the majority's freedom of expression."
But there are obvious drawbacks to unfettered discussion, as the Bronze Mustache case illustrates. "What we Internet users are doing is fulfilling our social obligations," said one man who posted a lengthy attack on the college student and his alleged affair. "We cannot let our society fall into such a low state."
Asked how he would react if people began publishing online allegations about his private life, he answered, "I believe strongly in the traditional saying that if you've done nothing wrong, you don't fear the knock on your door at midnight."
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美媒体评价铜须门事件：中国网民重道德轻法律
http://www.sina.com.cn 2006年06月05日14:53 金羊网-羊城晚报据《纽约时报》报道，今年早些时候，中国最受欢迎的游戏网络社区BBS上贴出一篇洋洋洒洒5000字的长文，一个ID叫“锋刃透骨寒”的丈夫在帖子里，谴责一名涉嫌与其妻有染的大学生。顷刻之间，成千上万的网友加入谴责行列，被许多资深的中国网友称为“2006年最具轰动性的网络事件”，亦对网络引发的种种问题提出道德考问。一名网友写道：“让我们用手中的键盘和鼠标作为武器，砍下通奸者的头颅，为丈夫讨回公道。”仅仅在数天之内，声援的网友从数百人增加到数千人接着增加到数万人，那些完全陌生的网友们组成小分队，追查当事人的真实身份和资料并公之于众，呼吁社会予以谴责和封杀。
在线群体承担道德训诫责任
这只是中国一种日见增多的现象的最新事例，中国人称之为网络追缉。在这样的行动中，网络在线群体承担起监管道德训诫的责任，匿名的网络拥护者聚到一起，调查他人并公布对“作奸犯科者”现实和虚拟的惩罚。在最近的诸多事例中，人们调查涉嫌蒙骗妻子的丈夫、网络域名拍卖中的欺诈行为、名人的私生活以及尚未破案的犯罪行为。其中一个引起广泛关注的案例是清华大学学生中毒，那起事件还要追溯到1994年，但好奇的陌生网友在网络上追问该案中唯一的嫌疑人在被讯问和释放的帖子迅速传播开来，使这个案件重新浮出水面。
也正是因为网络追缉，重庆女大学生卖身救母背后诸多复杂真相得以澄清，黑龙江虐猫事件女主角真实身份得以确定，一名中国计算机专家抄袭美国教授程序设计的丑闻得以曝光。
重道德轻法律易致群体暴力
互联网上的战争可以随处突然爆发，网民群体以道德优越感而非法律依据作依托，实施集体对个人的道德讨伐甚至现实攻击。这些案例在中国已经引起警觉，过去，这类群体性行为导致了暴力活动的发生。
近些年来，中国政府逐步加强了对互联网的管理，要求网吧登记顾客身份证，控制搜索引擎。提倡实名上网的谈论如同幽灵一般在中国不时响起，许多人担心网络威胁和类似这样的治安维持会制度可能导致对互联网用户控制的进一步加强。
理性声音呼吁重视法律程序
激情鼓荡下的人们组成小分队，探查出这名大学生的地址、电话，并在网上公布。旋即，急切希望谴责他的人们向他的学校和父母示威，有人谴责学校教育失职，其中一个回帖说他“应该受到伊朗导弹的轰炸”，许多人说这名学生应该被痛打一顿，甚至被砍头，或者说他及那名已婚妇女应该被关在猪笼里沉水。搀杂着传统形式的群体暴力倾向在网民们闪烁着道德光芒的话语里显露无遗。然而，在中国亦不乏理性的声音。众多中国媒体在反思网络追缉的利弊，许多人主张尊重法律和程序正义，勿以道德杀人，警惕在道德优越感笼罩之下的社会群体暴力。(中和·编译)
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-06-05/145310071684.shtml
国际先驱论坛报：Mob rule on China's Internet: The keyboard as weapon
By Howard W. French The New York TimesTHURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2006
SHANGHAI It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of China's most popular Internet bulletin boards, from a husband denouncing a student he suspected of carrying on an affair with his wife.
Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. "Let's use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons," as one person wrote, "to chop out the heads of these adulterers, to pay for the sacrifice of the husband." Within days, the hundreds had grown to thousands, and then tens of thousands, with total strangers forming teams to hunt down the student's identity and address, hounding him out of his university and causing his family to barricade themselves inside their home.
It was the latest example of a growing phenomenon the Chinese call Internet hunting, in which morality lessons are administered by online throngs and where anonymous Web users come together to investigate others and mete out punishment for offenses real and imagined.
In recent cases, people have scrutinized husbands suspected of cheating on their wives, fraud on Internet auction sites, the secret lives of celebrities and unsolved crimes. One case that drew a huge following involved the poisoning of a Tsinghua University student - an event that dates to 1994, but was revived by curious strangers after word spread on the Internet that the only suspect in the case had been questioned and released.
Even a recent scandal involving a top Chinese computer scientist dismissed for copying an American processor design came to light in part because of Internet hunting, with scores of online commentators raising questions about the project and putting pressure on the scientist's sponsors to look into allegations about intellectual property theft.
While Internet wars can crop up anywhere, these cases have set off alarms in China, where this sort of crowd behavior has led to violence in the past. Many here draw disturbing parallels to the Cultural Revolution, whose 40th anniversary was in May. During that episode of Chinese history, mobs of students taunted and beat their professors and mass denunciations and show trials became common for a decade.
In recent years, the Chinese government has gradually tightened controls, requiring, for example, that customers at Internet cafés provide identification.
It also introduced an Internet policing system whose cartoon figure mascots show up on people's screens to remind them they are being monitored, and recently blocked access to the most popular blog search engine, the American company Technorati.
There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all Internet users, and many here worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users.
The affair of the cuckolded husband first came to public attention in mid- April, after the man, who goes by the Web name Freezing Blade, said he discovered online correspondence between his wife, Quiet Moon, and a college student, Bronze Mustache. Following an initial conversation, in which he forgave his wife, the man said he found messages on his wife's unattended computer that confirmed to him that the extramarital liaison was continuing. He then posted the letter denouncing Bronze Mustache by his real name, opening the floodgates.
The case exploded on April 20, when a bulletin board manifesto against Bronze Mustache was published by someone under the name Spring Azalea. "We call on every company, every establishment, every office, school, hospital, shopping mall and public street to reject him," it said. "Don't accept him, don't admit him, don't identify with him until he makes a satisfying and convincing repentance."
Impassioned people teamed up to uncover the student's address and telephone number, both of which were then posted online. Soon, people eager to denounce him showed up at his university and at his parents' house, forcing him to drop out of school and barricade himself with his family in their home.
Others denounced the university for not expelling him, with one poster saying it should be "bombed by Iranian missiles." Many others, meanwhile, said the student should be beaten or beheaded, or that he and the married woman should be put in a "pig cage" and drowned.
"Right from the beginning, every day there have been people calling and coming to our house, and we have all been very upset," said the student's father, who was interviewed by telephone but declined to provide his name.
"This is an awful thing, and the Internet companies should stop these attacks, but we haven't spoken with them. I wouldn't know whom to speak to."
In hopes of quieting the criticism, Bronze Mustache issued a six-minute online video denying any affair with Quiet Moon, whom he is said to have met at a gathering of enthusiasts of the online game "World of Warcraft." At the same time, Freezing Blade has twice asked people to call off the attacks, even joining in the denials of an affair - all to no avail.
At its height, the Bronze Mustache case accounted for huge traffic increases on China's Internet bulletin boards, including a nearly 10 percent increase in daily traffic on Tianya, the bulletin board with the most users.
In many countries, electronic bulletin boards hark back to the earliest days of the Internet, before Web browsers were common, and when text messages were posted in static fashion in stark black and white. In today's China, however, bulletin boards have been colorfully updated and remain at the heart of the country's Internet culture.
"Our Web site is a platform, not a court," said Zeng Lu, a Web master for Tianya, which boasts 40 million page visits daily and says it is the world's largest bulletin board. "We cannot judge who is a good or bad person by some moral standard, but we have our own bottom line. If it's a personal attack on someone, we delete it, but it is very difficult, given that we have 10 million users." Although concerned about online threats, advocates of free speech say that is no reason for the Chinese authorities to place further limits on the Internet.
"The Internet should be free, and I have always opposed the idea of registering users, because this is perhaps the only channel we have for free discussion," said Zhu Dake, a sociologist and cultural critic at Tongji University in Shanghai. "On the other hand, the Internet is being distorted. This creates a very difficult dilemma for us."
Zhan Jiang, a professor of journalism, also defended open discussion on the Internet.
"As freedom of expression is not well protected here, we have to choose the lighter of two evils," said Zhan, who teaches at China Youth University of Political Science, in Beijing. "The minority who are hurting other people in such cases should be prevented, but this behavior should not disturb the majority's freedom of expression."
But there are drawbacks to unfettered discussion, as the Bronze Mustache case illustrates. "What we Internet users are doing is fulfilling our social obligations," said one man who posted a lengthy attack on the college student and his alleged affair. "We cannot let our society fall into such a low state."
Asked how he would react if people began publishing online allegations about his private life, he answered, "I believe strongly in the traditional saying that if you've done nothing wrong, you don't fear the knock on your door at midnight."
SHANGHAI It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of China's most popular Internet bulletin boards, from a husband denouncing a student he suspected of carrying on an affair with his wife.
Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. "Let's use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons," as one person wrote, "to chop out the heads of these adulterers, to pay for the sacrifice of the husband." Within days, the hundreds had grown to thousands, and then tens of thousands, with total strangers forming teams to hunt down the student's identity and address, hounding him out of his university and causing his family to barricade themselves inside their home.
It was the latest example of a growing phenomenon the Chinese call Internet hunting, in which morality lessons are administered by online throngs and where anonymous Web users come together to investigate others and mete out punishment for offenses real and imagined.
In recent cases, people have scrutinized husbands suspected of cheating on their wives, fraud on Internet auction sites, the secret lives of celebrities and unsolved crimes. One case that drew a huge following involved the poisoning of a Tsinghua University student - an event that dates to 1994, but was revived by curious strangers after word spread on the Internet that the only suspect in the case had been questioned and released.
Even a recent scandal involving a top Chinese computer scientist dismissed for copying an American processor design came to light in part because of Internet hunting, with scores of online commentators raising questions about the project and putting pressure on the scientist's sponsors to look into allegations about intellectual property theft.
While Internet wars can crop up anywhere, these cases have set off alarms in China, where this sort of crowd behavior has led to violence in the past. Many here draw disturbing parallels to the Cultural Revolution, whose 40th anniversary was in May. During that episode of Chinese history, mobs of students taunted and beat their professors and mass denunciations and show trials became common for a decade.
In recent years, the Chinese government has gradually tightened controls, requiring, for example, that customers at Internet cafés provide identification.
It also introduced an Internet policing system whose cartoon figure mascots show up on people's screens to remind them they are being monitored, and recently blocked access to the most popular blog search engine, the American company Technorati.
There has been recurrent talk by the government of registering all Internet users, and many here worry that a wave of online threats and vigilantism could serve as a pretext to impose new limits on users.
The affair of the cuckolded husband first came to public attention in mid- April, after the man, who goes by the Web name Freezing Blade, said he discovered online correspondence between his wife, Quiet Moon, and a college student, Bronze Mustache. Following an initial conversation, in which he forgave his wife, the man said he found messages on his wife's unattended computer that confirmed to him that the extramarital liaison was continuing. He then posted the letter denouncing Bronze Mustache by his real name, opening the floodgates.
The case exploded on April 20, when a bulletin board manifesto against Bronze Mustache was published by someone under the name Spring Azalea. "We call on every company, every establishment, every office, school, hospital, shopping mall and public street to reject him," it said. "Don't accept him, don't admit him, don't identify with him until he makes a satisfying and convincing repentance."
Impassioned people teamed up to uncover the student's address and telephone number, both of which were then posted online. Soon, people eager to denounce him showed up at his university and at his parents' house, forcing him to drop out of school and barricade himself with his family in their home.
Others denounced the university for not expelling him, with one poster saying it should be "bombed by Iranian missiles." Many others, meanwhile, said the student should be beaten or beheaded, or that he and the married woman should be put in a "pig cage" and drowned.
"Right from the beginning, every day there have been people calling and coming to our house, and we have all been very upset," said the student's father, who was interviewed by telephone but declined to provide his name.
"This is an awful thing, and the Internet companies should stop these attacks, but we haven't spoken with them. I wouldn't know whom to speak to."
In hopes of quieting the criticism, Bronze Mustache issued a six-minute online video denying any affair with Quiet Moon, whom he is said to have met at a gathering of enthusiasts of the online game "World of Warcraft." At the same time, Freezing Blade has twice asked people to call off the attacks, even joining in the denials of an affair - all to no avail.
At its height, the Bronze Mustache case accounted for huge traffic increases on China's Internet bulletin boards, including a nearly 10 percent increase in daily traffic on Tianya, the bulletin board with the most users.
In many countries, electronic bulletin boards hark back to the earliest days of the Internet, before Web browsers were common, and when text messages were posted in static fashion in stark black and white. In today's China, however, bulletin boards have been colorfully updated and remain at the heart of the country's Internet culture.
"Our Web site is a platform, not a court," said Zeng Lu, a Web master for Tianya, which boasts 40 million page visits daily and says it is the world's largest bulletin board. "We cannot judge who is a good or bad person by some moral standard, but we have our own bottom line. If it's a personal attack on someone, we delete it, but it is very difficult, given that we have 10 million users." Although concerned about online threats, advocates of free speech say that is no reason for the Chinese authorities to place further limits on the Internet.
"The Internet should be free, and I have always opposed the idea of registering users, because this is perhaps the only channel we have for free discussion," said Zhu Dake, a sociologist and cultural critic at Tongji University in Shanghai. "On the other hand, the Internet is being distorted. This creates a very difficult dilemma for us."
Zhan Jiang, a professor of journalism, also defended open discussion on the Internet.
"As freedom of expression is not well protected here, we have to choose the lighter of two evils," said Zhan, who teaches at China Youth University of Political Science, in Beijing. "The minority who are hurting other people in such cases should be prevented, but this behavior should not disturb the majority's freedom of expression."
But there are drawbacks to unfettered discussion, as the Bronze Mustache case illustrates. "What we Internet users are doing is fulfilling our social obligations," said one man who posted a lengthy attack on the college student and his alleged affair. "We cannot let our society fall into such a low state."
Asked how he would react if people began publishing online allegations about his private life, he answered, "I believe strongly in the traditional saying that if you've done nothing wrong, you don't fear the knock on your door at midnight."
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“网络暴民”爆了谁的头？
作者：axpor 提交日期：2006-6-8 23:37:00文/axpor
传统媒体们终于集体发难了。这一次来势汹汹，高举着美国《纽约时报》发给的胡萝卜大棒，将网民们描绘成“网络暴民”，以法律的名义，为BP同学和KB女讨回公道。
看得出来，传统媒体们等待这一天，已经许久了。借用李毅大帝的一句话，是“天亮了”。传统媒体长期被“网络暴民”们冷嘲热讽，眼睁睁看着舆论话语权落到暴民们的手中，心有不甘，却又无计可施。如今终于抓到了鸡脚，拔到了根鸡毛，岂能放过这一贬低广大网民的大好机会？几个无良记者暴撮一顿后，连夜削尖脑袋，熬了个通宵，引经据典，谷歌百度，东拼西凑出几篇自以为得计的文字，洋洋洒洒地发了个满山遍野，甚至第二天早晨倒垃圾时，垃圾池边上都贴了几张，以期让捡垃圾的小脚老太看到。
新浪搜狐等门户网站如获至宝，立马首页醒目位置推荐这些狗屁文章。在他们眼中，“网络暴民”是洪水猛兽，随时可能颠覆他们网络中江湖老大的位置。天涯猫扑等“网络暴民”云集的论坛，是他们的眼中钉，肉中刺。当世人已经厌恶了他们名人博客群里的打情骂俏，已经厌倦了他们铜臭味十足的商业炒作之后，他们知道，如果再任由这些草根论坛发展下去，必将影响自己的点击和收益。
好一个“网络暴民”，一顶沉甸甸的帽子“咣铛”一声扣到了网民的头上。看到传统媒体和强势网媒们义愤填膺，气急败坏的样子我就暗自发笑。天下网民千千万，天下网站万万千，只许你们州官放火，不许俺们百姓点灯？不就一对奸夫淫妇的破事情，在道德上谴责，在网络上嘲笑几句，踩着了谁的尾巴？爆了谁的头？在法律上他们是无罪的，但法律也没有规定不能在道德上谴责他们，不能在网络上嘲笑他们。法律既要维护他们的偷情权，也要维护他们的找抽权。
“网络暴民”爆了谁的头？表面上看是爆了BP男和KB女的头，其实是爆了新浪搜狐甚至央视等传统强势媒体的头。他们不能容忍草根论坛时时刻刻走在他们的前面，自己只能跟着后边可怜兮兮地炒旧饭。草根论坛的人气和智慧让他们吃惊，让他们不安，当一次又一次落在后面，一次又一次被推向舆论的对立面的时候，他们唯有叹息 “天绝我也”。当那些自认为武装到牙齿的媒体嫡系正规军被网络民兵们打得落花流水，屁滚尿流的时候，他们唯一的选择，只能是抱头鼠窜，落荒而逃。
生命不息，战斗不止。无论何时何地，我都会为草根论坛喝彩，我都会为草根网民自豪。自由，轻松，想写就写，想骂就骂，谈笑有鸿儒，往来有白丁。每个人都是匆匆过客，每个人都可以一笑而过。谈古论今，羽扇纶巾，无厘搞笑，徒奈我何？
看清了传统媒体们的丑恶嘴脸，看完了传统媒体们的丑陋表演，我只能给予无限的同情。当铜须事件已经在草根论坛偃旗息鼓的时候，他们却自认为找到了G点，在YY中逐渐达到高潮，在所谓“国外媒体”的援交下得到满足。须知，偷来的锣鼓敲不得。如此大张旗鼓地为偷情摇旗呐喊，并把它美化为一场浪漫动人爱情故事，最后的结果，虽然不会“国将不国”，但这个世界一定会成为“动物世界“了。
在此，祝那些极端鄙视“网络暴民“的动物们，早日进化成人。
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