Human Flesh Search
Human Flesh Searching is a search that begins on an online forum, bulletin, or blog in order to find a person offline who, according to the people on the forum, has committed a crime against human rights. The searchers gather any information they can on their target, such as: credit card numbers, home address, work address, names of family members, email accounts, and phone numbers. This information is used to publicly humiliate the person by getting them fired, ruining their credit, or even forcing them to move. Human flesh searching is one way Chinese citizens rebel against the People's Republic of China's Internet censorship.
History
Human Flesh Search started with a viral video that was widely spread on the Chinese Web. The video was of a woman dressed in a leopard blouse, a black skirt, and silver stilettos, standing next to a river bank. She put down the kitten she was holding in her hand, smiles, and proceed to stomp the kitten to death with her sharp heels. One of the angry viewers asked for a clearer frontal view of the woman, the inquiries became more practical, and hence the birth of the Human Flesh Search. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
