Reflections on the microblogging Bermanl incident

On April 23, 2020, my friend said to me: “You know what? The girl called Burmaner’s shake inside the information all gone, all deleted clean. The videos that were posted before, the interactions are gone. And, even the list of her followers can not be viewed. “

This is to be expected, but when I saw the screenshot of ShakeYin he sent over, I thought, the girl may really have died.

In the early days of Wuhan pneumonia, the Bermanl incident had caused a lot of volatility both internally and externally online. Externally, many people, from individuals overseas, to overseas democrats, and some Falun Gong organizations, were taking up Bermanl’s request for help on Weibo as a topic for discussion and coverage. The most immediate consequence of the incident was not that Burmane was promptly rescued. The most immediate consequence was not that Burmane was rescued in a timely manner, but that Burmane’s Weibo account was cursed.

She was called out for her medical malpractice, for discrediting China, for having a nervous problem, for various reasons. Most of them are scolding her.

Only a small number of people are supporting her or encouraging her. And those who support or encourage her are scolded by those who scold her, or more directly find a reason to report. Anyone who expressed the slightest discontent was reported to the public security microblogging and microblogging backstage by a few leaders as a foreign power. Slowly, many people were eliminated because of the Bermanl incident.

Later, Burmane came out in early February and sent out a video to prove that she was rescued and thanked the government.

Many people, including me, thought this was the result of stability maintenance. There was no need to say so many words of thanks to the government if she had been rescued and treated. And by saying them, especially the several suspected actions of reading the script on the video, you can basically be sure that you are being forced to read those words.

On February 17, Burmane tweeted that she had been discharged from the hospital. And said she would show her face to communicate on the 27th. But by the 27th, she only sent out a few pictures. The style of the text is not her previous style anymore. It could be that someone else wrote the script for her to post. It is also possible that she has left and someone else sent the draft.

On 2-17, so far under the last tweet, most people are still scolding her. There are few people who support her anymore. There are also a lot of people who are skeptical. Some people also say she died at 8:27 pm on February 2.

If it ends here, maybe I’ll think she’s cured too. I’ve been watching her Weibo, and since I don’t like shake, a friend added her shake and showed me the messages in it. the message on Feb. 17 was the same as the one on Weibo. I think that maybe this girl is going through this ordeal at such a young age, not only physically facing Life and death for the first Time, but especially mentally experiencing the accusations and rants that people usually never face in their lifetime. I really hope she can live.

One day in March, I found that her Weibo account was no longer available for commenting. At that time, I thought she might have gotten tired of people arguing for her and turned off the comment function.

However, there was a small detail that made me pay attention to it. I remember her previous number of followers was more than 200. But now it’s 4. If you think about it, even a newly registered microblogger will automatically add more than 4 advertising numbers. However, she turned off all the ones she was following. This doesn’t make sense from a logical point of view.

The only possible reason is that someone has shut down all the people she follows, so that no one can find her friends among the people she follows to verify anything.

After experiencing the incident of Li Wenliang, have understood too well the government’s approach for the sake of speech, the time of death can be changed. The dead person, of course, can make her appear alive on the Internet.

So pay attention to her microblogging, and pictures exist, from some of the information, you can find out that she lived in Wuhan’s Evergreen Garden. But within a few days, her Weibo feed was deleted to almost nothing. Only some messages that had nothing to do with the Epidemic, nothing to do with the location, and no interaction with others were left. Even the pictures were also deleted cleanly, all the pictures that could be fleshed out in the real world were gone.

This time, the heart has a little ominous feeling. Because this technique is a bit like the practice of professionals.

Her jitterbug interface is still normal, or say they are in case they do not update, may 。。。。。。

But today a friend said that her ShakeYin interface has no information about anything, no self-introduction. All the works are also gone. The strangest thing is that the list of her followers can’t be viewed by others. This is the same operation of Weibo again.

I hope she’s still alive, but, in reality, she’s probably gone.

Looking up her information on Twitter, only a few people occasionally asked, “How is Bermanl? The various media outlets that exploited her so much before have stopped paying attention to such an ordinary girl. All the information seems to have been fixed on February 17, the day she sent her last tweet.

In this world, each of us is small, so small that we will not look back after passing by. We all say that the Internet has a memory, but now it seems that this memory is just like that of a fish, only a few seconds. A heat has passed, whether it is the people who support her, or those who scold her, have forgotten her. No one ever goes after the truth of the matter anymore.

Perhaps the shutdown of Weibo and ShakeYin is the result of someone still chasing the truth, right?

Each of us, in the world of the Internet, is just a code name. One day, one does not update, cancel the number, then this life is goodbye. So simple, so cruel.

The monopoly of information platforms also leads to the simplification of speech control, as long as a few platforms to block a person’s information, then this person is even from the public view disappeared. And those who think they are on the side of justice and keep scolding her, but do not look back at what they have done and the impact of this incident, they have sent before the words have disappeared. With a little rationality and a little deeper thinking, it can be extended to your own body.

In case one day, one encounters an unjust demolition, a paper crude from the Bank of China, something one considers unjust, and then comes to light on these platforms, will one be treated better than Bermanl?

A quote from Montesquieu comes to mind.

An injustice to one is a threat to all. For what is shown by the injustice to one person is the logic of the system. A logic that can be used against all people, and from which no one can be guaranteed immunity. —– Montesquieu, “On the Spirit of the Law

On the other hand, while writing these words, I checked the Twitter information and surprisingly found a user named: CR7BHC who started following and spinning some information about Bermanl on September 26, 2019, especially the physical address. It’s like a living online voyeuristic stalker. Think carefully!