Taiwan society continues to chase and fight against the "Card God Case"
Taiwan Strait Network, December 11 (Taiwan Straits News Taiwan reporter Chen Chengpei Text/photo) The Taiwan authorities' "representative to Japan" Xie Changting and the "Card God" Yang Huiru is suspected of raising the Internet army to kill the "Director of the Osaka Office" Su Qicheng, and was recently prosecuted by the prosecution. The "Ka God Case" has caused a series of issues in the Democratic Progressive Party's online military, and has also brought the "old news" of politicians on the island to raise the Internet army for many years to come to the surface again. Taiwanese media have long revealed that Ke Wen-je was elected mayor of Taipei in 2014, and largely relied on the Internet army because he had long trained PTT (Taiwan Famous Online Forum) cyber army teams to lead the trend, with as many as 3,000 accounts, which caused heated discussion.
The Internet Army ignores ethics and morality, and maliciously leads the wind and is despised by others. What are the operating routines? How to intervene in Taiwan’s politics and elections? A reporter from the Taiwan newspaper interviewed industry insiders and politicians on the island who were familiar with cyber military operations.
Why did the cyber army emerge?
election "air combat" mode requires
"The Internet army is different from some netizens." New Party spokesman Wang Bingzhong introduced that the reason why the Internet army is separated from ordinary netizens is that they are not spontaneous, but are organized mobilization, task division, and online and offline.
The candidate for the "undistrict legislator" of the new party Qiu Yi said that the Taiwan cyber army has existed for a long time, and many people have suffered deeply, including himself and Wang Bingzhong, as well as the Kuomintang 2020 "general election" candidate Han Kuo-yu , who is now being "smeared" and "red". Qiu Yi pointed out directly that the essence of the cyber army is "organized and systematic deliberate attacks, suppressing opposition voices, and even causing innocent victims."
Why did Taiwan cyber army emerge? This is mainly due to the influence of popularization of the Internet and the younger voters. Yang Zongbin, spokesman of yes123 Job Search Network, introduced in an interview with a reporter from the Guide's Taiwan that in the past, candidates focused on the "army" election model of personal votes, but now they have introduced the "air force" election model, that is, to increase the network's voice and audio-visual exposure. "Air battle" requires more investment from fan editors and propaganda designers, as well as indispensable publicity and promotion funds. Facebook html released the statistics of Taiwan’s political advertising funds for the first time on the 44th. Political parties or candidates often invest 100,000 (NT$200,000) per month (NT$200,000, the same below). These funds are used in large quantities to raise cyber troops, to drive the Internet trend, to discredit opponents, or to create a positive image for oneself.
"Ka God" Yang Huiru
combat group: students and otaku as the main force
According to the indictment of the Taiwan prosecutor, in this "Ka God Case", Yang Huiru asked to go offline to post documents in PTT and other communities through the communication software Line group. New online media is currently the main "combat platform" of Taiwan's cyber army.
He Yicheng, chairman of the Taiwan Youth Federation, told the Guide's reporters in Taiwan that through the online new media platform channels, political communication benefits can be more effective, and has an impact on Taiwan's election situation and rhythm, which are nothing more than four items: PTT, Line, Facebook and YouTube. They are separated from each other. The most traditional one is PPT, also called the bulletin board. It was originally the National Taiwan University alumni forum, but later expanded to the public. The discussions in it are colorful and the content is very colorful. The social website that uses the most and has the widest influence in Taiwan is Facebook. As an instant messaging software, Line's organizational mobilization and publishing capabilities have a relatively powerful impact on Taiwan's political communication. As for YouTube, nonsensical, interesting and spoof videos are deeply loved by young people of this generation.
Because the cyber army mainly faces young people, and the ones who know young people themselves best are naturally their peers. He Yicheng introduced that the group of cyber army is mainly student groups because students have the most time, especially the time when some "attack articles" are initiated, which are late at night. In addition, otakus or IT industry professionals who have just graduated from school are also an important component of the cyber army.
combat skills: The more thrilling the news, the more lethal it is, the
"Card God Case", the cyber army on Taiwan's island has been temporarily low-key. A reporter from the Taiwan Strait contacted a 22-year-old male college student who worked as a part-time online military worker.He introduced that the reason why friends around him become cyber soldiers is actually very simple, just to make extra money. "Many of them are recommended by friends, and some are active in social websites and forums for a long time, writing articles and making remarks, but are targeted by public relations companies." The student who should be named said that the so-called public relations companies are actually a bridge connecting politicians and cyber army. Some Taiwanese public relations companies specializing in Internet marketing will take on "packaging cases" of politicians, especially those who are politicians during the election of war. After receiving them, they will get external writers and cyber soldiers. After agreeing to become a cyber army, the public relations company will pay you a fee first. The current market is usually 10,000 yuan a month, and the number of articles to be published varies.
The student said that as a cyber army, a person will keep several accounts and accumulate reputation on various platforms. Some accounts will post neutral comments, some are purely sour, and several are supporters of specific camps. After screening the public relations company, find someone to send a contract.
What kind of people will look for the Internet army? It's nothing more than scandals, and it needs to divert the focus or discredit the other party. For example, this "Su Qicheng's death incident" is the trend that Yang Huiru brought to shift the Internet criticism.
also has special skills in "black people". "If we want to specifically discredit anyone, we may start to the moral and legal aspects." The student said that the easiest thing to affect everyone is usually the kind of analysis or revelations that seem exciting and terrifying, which is the most lethal.
Net Army faction: The DPP has “innate advantages”
This time, Taiwanese media digs deep into the source of funds behind it, which obviously has nothing to do with the DPP. In fact, in terms of operating the cyber army, the DPP really has "innate advantages" compared to the Kuomintang.
"Including students and otaku, most of them are in their twenties and thirties, and tend to support the DPP." He Yicheng pointed out that on the issue of cyber army, the DPP has never said that the Kuomintang is operating cyber army, but has made up the so-called "Chinese cyber army" to engage in "red infiltration".
He took personal experience as an example and believed that "netizens on Facebook also support the DPP authorities." He Yicheng's Facebook fan page, if he publishes some remarks criticizing Tsai Ing-wen for several consecutive days, it will be blocked for a while and needs to send a verification code to be used normally. "It is to master that rhythm, so that you can calm down and settle a little, and it will not be superimposed all the time, and there will be no fermentation period."
Taiwan media said that there are so-called "three major factions" of the cyber army within the DPP. In He Yicheng's view, it is actually not only the DPP itself that has its own cyber army, but also the British, Xie, Soviet, "New Trends", etc. Take Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te for example. Lai Ching-te has always said that he was bullied by Tsai Ing-wen's Internet Army during this year's party primary election, but he himself held a tea party with the media in Japan. Through Facebook's live account "Lai Ching-te-Qing Out of the South", it was a "Lai Ching-te" who had long attacked Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP Central Committee.
In Taiwan, it is normal for politicians to support the Internet army. They mostly exist as "an editor of online marketing", especially in the era of self-media, everyone can be the "commander-in-chief of the Internet Army". However, the harm caused by the cyber army has made Taiwan's political ecology out of control, and all kinds of smearing methods are used to the extreme, and the damage caused is even more difficult to clear the innocence of the parties involved overnight.
