"I just want them to be punished," she said, adding that according to Chinese law, such behaviour, although immoral, invite no legal punishment.
When a girl from a college in Chongqing municipality said on the Internet that the May 12 earthquake was "interesting", her mother and teacher started to receive cursing and threatening phone calls from angry netizens, forcing the girl to suspend her schooling.
The China Youth Daily recently surveyed 2,491 netizens, and found 79.9 per cent of them to believed that Renrou search should be regulated.
While 65.5 per cent thought it might become a new way of venting anger and revenge, 64.6 per cent said that it was infringing privacy, and 20.1 per cent feared that they could become a target.
Ayawawa also agreed that some targets were just scapegoats for netizens to vent their anger in daily life.
The survey also revealed that 24.8 per cent of those polled supported legislation to restrict Renrou searches.
Source-ANI
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