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Original title: Harvesting

Li Faming/Tu Gongchang/Wen

On April 22, the Beijing News reported that on some short video platforms, "zero yuan editing classes" are harvesting middle-aged and elderly people. These course consultants use the gimmick of "guaranteed full refund without making money" to induce middle-aged and elderly people to buy paid video clip courses. However, after paying the registration fee, many elderly people found that not only did their accounts not increase in popularity, but also did not make money from the short video platform. According to the police, tens of thousands of deceived people have been found across the country in the past six months, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years old. At present, the amount of money involved in the investigation has reached hundreds of millions of yuan.

For some middle-aged and elderly people, it is a great pleasure to brush short videos on their mobile phones when they have nothing to do. Some middle-aged and elderly people even have the desire to learn how to make short videos, hoping to express themselves through the network and further share the dividends of Internet development. It is a good thing that middle-aged and elderly people have such a deep demand for access to the Internet, but in any case they should not be reaped by the fraud of lawbreakers. In addition to calling for severe cracking down on and punishment of the above fraud, we also expect relevant departments to face up to this demand, and protect the digital life of middle-aged and elderly people by strengthening management of relevant courses in the market, increasing the recommendation of algorithms for high-quality content, enriching the supply of learning resources for universities for the elderly, etc.