Dangerous Internet——Classroom

A: Hello everyone, welcome to today’s English classroom. I’m... We know that the Internet is very complicated and sometimes it may be very dangerous. I read from the news that there is something happening recently , so we have to know something to protect ourselves from it. B: For example, in 12th May this year, the biggest scale case of computer virus hit the world. According to the statistics of Kaspersky, at least 45 thousand computers of windows system in 74 different countries were attacked in the latest 10 hours. The data of the anti-virus program named Avast is more astonishing that the virus has infected at least 57 thousand computers and is still spreading rapidly. C: The attack can be found in some of the most important countries of the world such as the US, China, Japan, Russia and the UK. The condition in Russia is the most severe one. In UK, the attack mainly focus on the National Health Service, which means that the computer in at least 25 hospitals were broken down and the ambulances are unable to set off in time, so it’s very possible to lead to disasters. A: In China, the virus firstly seems to be spread by the School Internet, and the files in the computers are enciphered, they can be released only if you pay enough money.The exports suggest that the simplest way to protect your computer is to cut off the Internet before you start the computer. B: Then we will introduce another dangerous stuff from the Internet and I think that this one is also very terrifying. A game named Blue Whale gets a lot of people’s attention recently, and several social medias warned us against the danger. Every participants that joins the game will be controlled by a owner ,and everyday the owner will arrange a task for the game players, he or she must finish all kinds of self-harm tasks in 50 days, including waking up at midnight and cutting themselves with a knife. And let’s see some other incredible missions, for example, wake up at 4:20 everyday, watch horror movies for the whole day, sculpture a pattern of a blue whale on the arms with a knife,etc. And in the last day of the sick game, the owner will ask the participator to kill themselves. C: I think those things sounds really ridiculous, but it had really lead hundreds of Russian teenagers to death. In February this year, the death of two young Russian girls caused panic on the Internet. One day, a girl named Yulia jumped from a tall building. And before she leaved this world, she said The End in her INS, together with a picture of a blue whale. Later, the police found that during the period before she died, she always said strange and gloomy things on her social media such as ‘Do you think that you are becoming more and more useless?’ and ‘I’m living like a ghost’ And the very day that Yulia committed suicide, her friend Veronica killed herself in the same way. The blue whale Yulia posted in the social media caught the police’s attention and they found that the two girls belong to a network community named Death Panel and the blue whale is both the totem and the code name of the group. A: According to the investigation from the media, from November 2015 to April 2016, in the 130 suicide cases of the teenagers in Russia, the blue whale causes at least 80 of them. None of the children is from a poor family, but most of them have eccentric personality and an empty life. The organizers made use of these and tell them that the best things in the world all begin with letter ‘s’ , for example, semiya (家庭) , Saturday, sex and suicide. B: A journalist disguised himself as a 15-year-old boy and had a conversation with the organizer. C: -I want to play the game. B: -Are you sure? Once you are in, there is no way back. C: -What is ‘There is no way back’? B: -It means that you can’t quit it once it starts. C: -I’m ready. B: -Okay. From now on, you must finish a task secretly and send the photo to me to proof it that you have done, and in the end of the game, you will die. Are you ready? C: -What if I quit halfway? B: -We know everything about you and someone will deal with you. B: We can find a picture of an organizer, Philip Budeikin , from the Internet , the horrible and strange smile on his face before he was arrested shocked us. It’s unbelievable that he is only 21 years old.He was accused of organizing 8 ‘Blue Whale’ groups and inducing teenagers to kill themselves. C: However, the arrest of Philip Budeikin didn’t reduce the number of tragedy. And the game has been spread to all over the world including the UK, Argentina, Mexico and so on. These days, some net citizens in China say that this evil game may have been spread to China, because one mission in Blue Whale is getting up at 4:20 am and there are some sensitive characters that are similar to it. A: But we can see that more Chinese people is making fun of the game. For example, you can get up at 4:00 am, and begin to read English books, then you can do morning exercises or jogging on the playground. The plan is that you should study for the whole day. And in the end, you will become a good student. In Weibo, when a child asked how to join the Blue Whale game, a lot of people’s responds are really touching, they just said that we love you. So we can see that the world is still very beautiful, right? B: Finally, we want to say that communication is the best way to solve problems. And if you feel lonely, you can learn to hug this world instead of hurting yourself. And I hope that when you see this kind of games or groups, you can report it to the Internet police, maybe this little action can help someone in danger. A: So this is today’s English classroom, see you next week. All: See you~