[The Epoch Times, May 2, 2022](Reported by The Epoch Times reporter Li Jing) The CCP has recently increased network surveillance, and mainland Weibo, WeChat and other online platforms have forced IP territorial settings to be enabled, and all personal accounts and messages will be marked. The user’s location.
However, this practice surprised mainland netizens to discover that many Internet celebrities who advertised their lives abroad are in the mainland, while many movie stars who advertise their “patriotism” are in foreign countries. After these “patriots” of the Chinese Communist Party were exposed, the IP territorial setting was soon officially cancelled.
The CCP opened the IP territorial setting of Wu Jing and other “patriotic big V” exposure traces
Since April 28, mainland Weibo, WeChat, Douyin and other social platforms announced that they will force the display of geographic location information when users post content, accidentally exposing the traces of the so-called “patriotic big V”.
According to the Red Star Capital Bureau, many big Vs certified as “local information bloggers” and “overseas information bloggers” have found that their IP territories do not match their data addresses.
Weibo search IDs contain overseas information bloggers such as “United States“, “Russia”, “United Kingdom” and “France”, and their IP territories show Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Guangdong, etc. Provinces and cities.
For example, the Weibo 2021 top ten influential overseas V bloggers with over 10 million followers, “Things in the UK”, fill in the Weibo address as “Overseas UK”, but the IP territory is displayed in Guangdong Province. The Weibo address of “French Embarrassment” is “overseas”, but its IP territory is located in Shaanxi Province.
“Things about Beijingers” (over 7.5 million followers), “Beijing Eating, Drinking and Fun Things” (over 5.37 million followers), “Beijing Eating, Drinking and Playing Hot Tips” (over 4.25 million followers) certified by Weibo as local information bloggers , their IP territories are all located in Hunan Province. In addition, the IP territories of certified local information bloggers such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen are displayed as different places.
At the same time, the patriotic Vs who incite others to attack and hate foreign countries every day on mainland online platforms are found to have their IP territories displayed abroad.
For example, actor Wu Jing, who has successively filmed “patriotic movies” for the CCP, shows on his Weibo that his IP is located in Thailand; the official account of “Emperor Bar”, which represents the CCP’s external “cyber violence” attacks, shows that the IP is located in Taiwan.
There is also “patriotic Internet V” Lian Yue, who vowed to “will not immigrate to China” and called on netizens not to immigrate to the United States and Japan, but his social platform IP address is in Japan. When questioned by netizens, he claimed to be staying in Japan on a medical visa and returning to China next month.
The Epoch Times reporter noticed that as of May 1, the IP territorial setting enabled by mainland social media platforms has been officially cancelled.
The CCP forced to disclose the IP of the user’s IP, the IP of the Patriotic National University V was exposed
As early as early March, Weibo issued an announcement saying that the situation in Russia and Ukraine is serious. . Later, this function was further extended to other topics, such as the epidemic in China.
In April, the Cyberspace Administration of China, in conjunction with the police, shut down several online groups with epidemic-related information, and punished several individual users of Weibo and WeChat.
Recently, the Cyberspace Administration of the People’s Republic of China has launched the “Special Action on Qinglang·Cyber Violence”, which mainly cleans up 18 websites and platforms with great social influence, including Sina Weibo, Douyin, Baidu Tieba, Zhihu, etc.
Regarding the official disclosure of user IP territories, Li Yi, director of the Green Digital Development Research Center of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that he believed that after the recent outbreak of the epidemic, there have been a lot of incidents on the Internet that have caused the official to be passive and considered by the official to be detrimental to stability. of public opinion.
However, after the launch of the new IP territorial function, many big Vs who love the party and the country have exposed their traces. In this regard, Li Yi believes, “These bloggers are not the main targets of rectification, but belong to ‘accidental injuries’.”
Responsible editor: Li Qiong#