Public comments join Shanghai police to crack down on "professional difference critic"

In recent years, the review of Web sites in the consumer to bring convenience, but also become "professional evaluation Division" breeding space. Recently, the public comments jointly with the Shanghai police to carry out the purge action, a number of Third-party hype agency by the police to "blackmail crime" to prosecute and transfer to the prosecution organs, the relevant companies were ordered to suspend business. As the merchant's praise and the stars will directly affect the user's choice, so most businesses are highly valued user comments, which often appear in the third party hype through the hype false comments to the business extortion. It is understood that third-party "professional assessment" generally forced to sell their "special services": Every month merchants to pay fees, can be in some online shopping platform has been a lot of praise; once the merchant refuses, they will face a threat or even a large number of malicious bad reviews. Shanghai, a hotel boss told reporters that this May he found in the public comments on their own merchant page on the difference. He then received a call claiming to be a "public comment network" Staff of the suspect telephone, claiming that they can help their businesses delete the difference assessment, improve the rating of stars. However, when he met the next day, he said he was not a "public comment network" staff, but the owner only needs to spend 1500 yuan a month to enjoy their praise service, and the shopkeeper refused. Since then, the suspect began to work with other employees of the company, registered trumpet, to the merchant for a bad review. The shopkeeper immediately called the police. Finally, according to the criminal suspect's motive, the police to "extortion of crime" to prosecute it. At present, the case has been transferred to the public prosecution organs and will enter the formal criminal procedure. The company was also seized by the police and ordered to suspend business. For such behavior, Beijing Sheng law firm director of the lawyer Yu Guofu gave a clear judicial judgement and interpretation: to give a bad rating to threaten merchants to pay money is illegal, in a large amount or more times, the perpetrator will constitute the crime of extortion. Public comment Survey shows that 60% of businesses in the first encounter Third-party speculation agency blackmail have opted to spend money, but when the price is raised, almost all merchants will choose to refuse. It is reported that the public comment on the crackdown on third-party speculation in Shanghai is not the first action. March 2012, Shanghai Xin Jing Gong Joint public comments investigated and dealt with in the third party comments on the platform to buy and sell false comments on the illegal case: an illegal network of public relations agencies in the comments on the Web site for the cooperation of businessmen to write false praise for profiteering, employing nearly 10 "network of the Navy", opened hundreds of vest account, each person responsible for "Irrigation" and hype comments. In recent years, the public comments on the establishment of a rigorous review mechanism and comment on the grading system, now can be eliminated 95% false comments. 2013, the public comment on shielding more than 260,000 of the offending account, the processing of 92 high-star members, which were deleted more than 20 of the hype reviews more than 2000 businesses. (Science China)