
II. The function of cyber manhunt: expose social evils
III. The negative effects of cyber manhunt:
1.intrude one’s privacy
2.provoke anger and criticism in reality which may be out of control
IV. The ways to control cyber manhunt
My View on Cyber Manhunt
The development of computer science and the popularity of Internet service co-occur with certain social side effects, and cyber manhunt is one of these problems. Cyber manhunt is a special search engine which uses participation of the Internet users to provide, filter and finally find the requested information. With the united efforts of the netizens, many social evils are exposed to the public. But the negative influence of the cyber manhunt couldn’t be ignored.
One of the bad effects of the cyber manhunt is the invasion of individual privacy. Although the initial motive of the enthusiastic netizens might not be malicious, their overly digging out of personal information would seriously disturb others’ lives or even infringe upon people’s privacy. Because of the weak legal awareness of some netizens, plenty of confidential information is even available on the net. Another flaw of cyber manhunt is the uncontrollable result. When the evils are exposed out, the public can’t keep their anger inside the virtual society, and therefore the anger may easily provoke radical punishments in reality.
As to me, a useful and sound cyber manhunt is possible, only if we netizens could enhance our legal and moral consciousness, and if government could establish relevant legislations and rules to regulate people’s online behaviors.
