CCTV News:On March 31st, several columns of CCTV reported on platforms such as Aauto Quicker and Volcano Video, and a large number of videos of underage pregnant women with underage children as gimmicks appeared, asking where the bottom line of short videos was.
On April 3rd, CEO of Aauto Quicker published an article "Accept Criticism, Reorganize and Move Forward" to apologize, saying that the development of fast-paced community deviated from the original direction to a certain extent, and would use correct values to guide the algorithm, promise to improve the algorithm, and give priority to recommending personalized positive energy works that are more in line with users’ interests.
A 16-year-old girl is holding a baby in her hand. Can you imagine it is her child? The 17-year-old girl repeatedly stressed on the video homepage that she had more babies and was an early mother; A couple after 00 showed their affection to the fullest, and that day was the 65th day of their live elopement.
Love, pregnancy and childbirth … … These taboos for minors in real life are easily broken on some video platforms. What is even more unexpected is that these videos will not only not be banned and sealed up, but also often become popular on live broadcast platforms, with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of broadcasts.
According to CCTV survey, most of these underage mothers live in rural areas or small towns, drop out of school early and have children, with narrow social contacts and a desire for attention. In order to attract attention, they deliberately strengthen the attributes of young mothers, many of which are not only ignoring ethics, but even touching the bottom line of the law. The huge number of participants and the low age are far beyond people’s cognition.
If it is said that individual minors are immature and form wrong values, then the trend of striving to be the "youngest mother in the whole network" can spread rapidly and have an impact, which is inseparable from the recommendation of the platform.
Algorithm priority and accurate positioning of users’ preferences are the means respected by major platforms now, and also the core technology for survival. However, completely relying on the algorithm, regardless of the video content is not only the dereliction of duty of the platform, but also the connivance in disguise.
Some wonderful and even dangerous video contents have been imitated by netizens in real life, which not only breaks the moral bottom line, violates the law, but even endangers the lives of themselves and others.
Vulgarity, hype, and being out of position must not be correct values. Aauto Quicker has the right and responsibility to audit the content of his own platform in the face of underage users who are attacked by all kinds of low-quality content. However, it doesn’t stop but promotes, just as netizens said, how many children will be negatively affected by a big V who is famous for having children under age? You don’t know for yourself.
Aauto Quicker didn’t know that there were these big V’s in the top ten popularity rankings? The credibility of this statement is almost zero. Then why hasn’t it been dealt with, such as warnings or even titles? The interest relationship behind this is probably self-evident. As long as it can attract more users, the platform will turn a blind eye to these big V’s. As long as it is not bound by the law and resolutely stays out of it, it can be said that it will not die without hitting the south wall.
There is no doubt that the rectification of Aauto Quicker, the relevant laws and regulations are even more important. In recent years, short video and live broadcast platforms have been exposed to vulgarity, pornography, fraud and other chaos, and network supervision is becoming more and more strict. However, with the continuous upgrading of network technology, the diversity of platforms and the complexity of supervision often make these people take advantage of the loopholes and test the "red line" with the edge of the law. It is imperative to formulate laws and regulations specifically for webcasting as soon as possible, refine responsibilities and subjects, and prevent the "barbaric growth" of these platforms.
On the other hand, families and society should also pay more attention to minors and guide them to return to the correct track of values and share positive energy. Recording what is worth recording is the correct way for technology to change life.