The IP ownership of overseas bloggers is in China, and the IP ownership of food, drink and entertainment bloggers in all provinces is in Hunan… With the new function of IP ownership, at the same time that various Internet celebrities have been overturned, the IP replacement business has been changed. It also appeared that a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily found that even a minimum cost of 13 yuan could change the IP location. In this regard, experts said that the display of IP attribution does not infringe on user privacy, and the resulting deformed industries should be cracked down.
Phenomenon: New types of bloggers “roll over” on new IP functions
On March 17, the official Weibo of Weibo community management took the lead in posting, “Recently, hot events have occurred frequently, which has aroused the high attention of netizens. While strengthening the investigation and disposal of illegal information, the website found that there are still some netizens who pretend to be local netizens. In order to better maintain the order of dissemination, the website will launch the function of ‘user profile page showing the location of recent posts’ in the next week on the basis of previous functions.” Subsequently, on April 15, Douyin Together with today’s headline announcement, such new features will be added to the latest version and will be officially launched at the end of April. Social networking sites such as Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, Kuaishou, and WeChat Official Accounts have also followed suit, announcing new such functions, and such functions do not support manual opening or closing.
With the launch of the new function of IP attribution, taking the overseas bloggers on the Douyin platform as an example, the bloggers originally named “Little Sydney in Japan” quickly changed their name to “Full of vitality” after the IP ownership was displayed as Liaoning. “Little Sydney”, also deleted the sentence “settled in Japan all the year round” in its original introduction; the blogger formerly named “Brother Tim manages foreigners in the United States” also changed his name to “Brother Tim’s Life Algorithm” after the IP territory was displayed as Shanghai… Bloggers such as “Paul in the United States”, “Brother Biao of California”, and “Sister Flying from South Korea” have also released clarification videos to explain the reasons why their IP belongs to China.
In addition to these “overseas bloggers” who are “truthful”, “Guangzhou people’s life in Guangzhou”, “Chongqing food and drink life”, “Shanghai food, drink and fun”… The IP ownership of food, drink and fun bloggers in various provinces and cities is actually displayed in Hunan. Among the stars that have attracted much attention, taking Wang Yibo as an example, it is obvious that people are filming in Gansu, but the IP attribution in reply to Han Hong’s Weibo comment shows Beijing… The phenomenon of “personal account separation” is even more widely investigated: “IP proxy ” Said to pay a fee to change the IP address
With the launch of the new function of IP attribution, many bloggers have “overturned”. At the same time, related gray industries also surfaced.
A reporter from Beiqing Daily found that such a business of changing the IP territory can be purchased on a second-hand trading website. On May 6, the reporter searched for keywords such as “IP” on a certain website, and relevant content appeared immediately. After consulting the seller, the reporter found that, taking the example of changing the home of Douyin in China, it costs 15 yuan to change once, but it does not. You can publish and comment on Douyin, and you can publish content and comments for an unlimited number of times for only 50 yuan per month. The price of changing the location of foreign IP is higher. However, on May 7th, the seller has cancelled the account. Through communication, a reporter from Beiqing Daily added another WeChat account for IP agency business. The other party said that it only cost 13 yuan to modify the IP address of a “Sina Weibo”, but it was limited to Android phones to modify domestically. It is necessary to download the software through a foreign ID account and then modify it. The operation is more complicated and the price is higher.
The principle of IP territorial modification is very simple
Although the so-called deformed IP proxy industry has come into the public’s attention after the IP territorial display, this gray industry existed before that, and was mainly used for domestic game users to change the game area. In 2021, with the cooperation of public security organs and network security departments, more than 13,000 illegal lines will be closed.
Liu Xingliang, dean of the DCCI Internet Research Institute and a visiting professor at Southwest Jiaotong University, told the Beiqing Daily reporter that the basic principle of IP territorial can be modified, “that is, a computer replaces the user to access the website that needs to be visited, and then returns the result of the visit to the user. The IP address of the target website is from the proxy server, so the modified IP address shows the address of the proxy server.”
Regarding how to rectify and modify the chaos of IP addresses, Professor Liu Xingliang suggested to strengthen the supervision of the computer room of cloud computing manufacturers; for users who frequently change IPs and log in from different places, the system can judge whether they log in abnormally according to the space-time distance, and take measures such as account banning and account theft. .
Argument: The crackdown on online black and gray production should be intensified
Regarding whether the gray industry of IP agency is legal, a reporter from Beiqing Daily interviewed lawyer Ma Ce, the founding partner of Kenting Law Firm.
Lawyer Ma Ce told the Beiqing Daily reporter that IP addresses and corresponding territorial information themselves are public information to a certain extent, so the publication behavior generally does not involve infringing on the privacy rights of users.
Lawyer Ma Ce also said, “When the perpetrators use technical means to help disguise and modify IP and attribution, the illegal consequences that may be involved need to be determined according to the situation. If these perpetrators know that the user’s modification of the IP and the location is used for fraud, theft If the perpetrator uses technology to hijack citizens’ personal information illegally, it may constitute a crime of infringing on citizens’ personal information. In addition, relevant platforms can also be based on the perpetrators. Inappropriate interference behaviors and civil tort claims for unfair competition. The IP agency deformed industry itself belongs to the link of network black and gray production, and it is a breeding ground for cybercrimes and illegal acts, so it is necessary to strengthen the crackdown.”
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The Cyberspace Administration of the People’s Republic of China issues a draft for consultation on user account information management
In 2015, the Ministry of Internet and Information Technology first proposed an online real-name system. In October 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued the “Regulations on the Management of Internet User Account Name Information (Draft for Comment)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Draft for Comment”).
In the draft for comments, some opinions on the use of Internet users are clearly put forward, requiring Internet users to provide real identity information and abide by platform content production and account management, platform conventions and service agreements. It is not allowed to counterfeit, counterfeit, or associate with the geographical names and logos of important spaces such as national administrative regions, institutions, and landmark buildings. The draft also requires Internet user account service platforms to require Internet user account users to provide real identity information in accordance with the principle of “real name in the background, voluntary in the front desk”. Internet user account service platforms shall establish a dynamic verification and inspection system for account name information, improve technical means, and verify the legality, compliance and authenticity of the name information of existing accounts.
Source: Beijing Youth Daily
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