Living the Network Society / Chinese Girl Attacks Quake Victims
May 25th, 2008Some random girl in China uploaded a 4 minute video clip of herself ranting at the victims of the earthquake. I guess her name and address have already been publicized. It sounds like the makings of another e-vigilante story (see Korean dog poop lady for another example). Video with English subs below.
BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) — When a video clip surfaced on YouTube showing Zhang Ya cursing Wenchuan earthquake victims with lots of profane words, a small earthquake was triggered in China’s Internet community.
Millions of Chinese Internet users posted furious condemnation messages, accusing the 21-year-old girl of “no humanity,” “insulting the victims” and calling her “scum”.
In the near-5-minute video, Zhang, a native of Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Liaoning Province, showed that she was annoyed with the three day period of national mourning during which she could neither watch her favorite television programs nor play any games online. Shockingly, the girl chose to vent her anger through throwing nasty words upon the victims of the Sichuan quake, whose number has now topped 55,000.
Source: Xinhua
(The article is interesting too, it talks about the role of the net and grass-roots self-organizing in response to the earthquake).
But here’s the video…