According to the report of surging news on January 24, Liu xuezhou, a Hebei boy who was blackmailed by his biological mother after a successful family search, took medicine to commit suicide in the early morning of the same day and died after rescue. At present, the police in Hebei and Shanxi have investigated the contents of Liu xuezhou's article and contacted his biological parents. According to Liu xuezhou's suicide note published on the Internet and many previous reports, there are many reasons why Liu xuezhou came to a dead end, and some of his statements should be verified by relevant departments after investigation. However, one thing is certain that in this tragedy, cyber violence is one of the straw that crushed Liu xuezhou. Compared with the typical narration of looking for relatives, Liu xuezhou's story is much more complicated. For example, what happened after he met his biological father and mother, whether he asked the other party to buy or rent a house for himself, in what situation, and why his mother "black" him. These problems, not to mention ordinary people, may not be fully understood even if public power forces intervene. However, some people who had nothing to do with the whole matter launched verbal attacks on Liu xuezhou with piecemeal information that had not been carefully verified. In the comment area of his social platform, some people said that he used looking for relatives to set up a blog for sympathy, some said that he was very careful at a young age, and others directly abused and insulted The harm of cyber violence has long been a lesson. In 2018, a female doctor in Sichuan clashed with a boy and his parents in a swimming pool, and then committed suicide due to serious online violence. In the same year, a female nurse who attempted suicide was accused by netizens. On the one hand, she sold miserably in her suicide note and on the other hand, she had many high consumption behaviors, resulting in her second suicide. Most people seem to prefer to get a conclusion directly rather than spend time and effort understanding the context of things. In the Internet age, this feature has been magnified several times. Many netizens are eager to stand in line and either fully support or completely oppose things. Sometimes they even find arguments with conclusions, as if everyone can be a judge and everyone can try a case. In addition, in the anonymous space, people will vent their personal emotions to the people and things that attract their attention intentionally or unintentionally, resulting in cyber violence. The practice that relevant network platforms pay more attention to operation than management and traffic than guidance also contributes to the emergence of network violence to a certain extent. In real life, if someone deliberately abuses and insults others, according to the law on public security administration and punishment, he can be detained for up to 10 days. However, in many cases of cyber violence causing substantial harm to the parties, there is hardly a specific who has paid the price. Cyber rioters are like tides that can break everything down, but it is difficult to break down drops of water to blame. Even, according to past experience, the tide that flooded Liu xuezhou is likely to be turning around to storm his biological parents online. In 2013, the judicial interpretation on handling criminal cases such as defamation on information networks was issued, which stipulates that the standard for the criminalization of defamation on information networks is that the same defamation information is actually clicked and viewed more than 5000 times, or forwarded more than 500 times. In 2021, the case of "Hangzhou woman taking express was rumored" was sentenced, and the two defendants were sentenced for defamation. With the strengthening of the rule of law in cyberspace, more and more infringed choose to take up legal weapons, and more and more people realize that rumors and slander are illegal everywhere. But the process of safeguarding rights is by no means easy. The party who is rumored and abused needs to spend a lot of energy to collect and fix the evidence that can be easily eliminated. When there is no clear object of infringement, the existing law still lacks effective binding force on the large number of netizens who "just leave a word". These objectively result in a large number of people who are still in a vulnerable and helpless state. To stop this evil, it is urgent to strengthen and improve the relevant institutional construction. For example, the relevant platforms should change the practice of "hanging high above themselves" and actively perform their management responsibilities. As well as afterwards rectification and punishment, what is even more important is the prevention in advance and the public opinion environment and atmosphere for the good as a whole. Everyone who speaks ill of others is a part of pushing the tide of Internet Storm forward. Conversely, when judging hot people and events, we should maintain goodwill and reason, even if we only say less. For each more such person, the dam to resist cyber storm will be one point higher. I hope next time, we can all be part of this dam to resist the "net storm tide". (Xinhua News Agency)