There are many routines and great dangers.
There are some distinct "routines" in the trap of "online sideline training" First, most of them are "1 yuan tuition", "0 yuan tuition" and "can make a lot of money", and then they frequently send messages and make phone calls to induce students to buy courses at high prices. The cost of related courses ranges from several thousand yuan to several hundred thousand yuan.
Second, training institutions often "promise" that students can recommend or "send orders" to provide part-time money-making opportunities after paying high tuition fees to buy courses. However, the reporter found that most of these promises could not be fulfilled at all. "I promised to earn my tuition back in 20 days, and now I have not fulfilled it in 40 days." A student in a short video editing class said. Many experts from the Institute of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences said that they had never heard of the profession of psychological listener.
Third, the training effect is not worthy of the name and the quality is poor. According to many students, some training lecturers give very shallow lectures, or even paste them from the internet, which has almost no practical value; Some training lecturers let students spend hundreds of dollars to buy dubbing software to make video explanations, but they can't release them; There is also a training course on lecturer identity fraud. The reporter contacted a well-known film and television blogger, who is said to teach editing courses. He said, "Someone on the Internet impersonated me to sell classes.".
The reporter searched a number of online complaint platforms and found that there were hundreds of complaints against the above-mentioned institutions, most of which were "non-refundable". In addition, a large number of "students" are also facing great risks of being targeted by criminals involved in fraud.
The difficulty of governance lies in clarification.
Legal responsibility of drainage platform
Zhao, an associate professor at the School of Law of Beihang University and deputy director of the research base of Beijing Science and Technology Innovation Center, said that the key and difficult point of controlling the trap of "sideline training" lies in how to cut off the chain of illegal institutions or platforms using well-known network platforms for drainage, clarify the legal responsibility of drainage platforms, and compact the platform responsibility commitment mechanism.
Some victims told reporters that the drainage network platform often "smashed the pot" on the grounds that it could not be responsible for the training content afterwards.
Zhao believes that in practice, platform operators cannot give up the obligation to review exaggerated and false components in such training advertisements. In addition, according to the relevant provisions of Internet advertising, platform operators, as Internet information service providers, have the obligation to supervise and inspect the contents of advertisements published by using their information services. For the "sideline training" trap advertisement with obvious fraud risk, the platform operator should also bear some user losses.
For example, some platform accounts insert the propaganda content of "sideline training" trap into the information content published in their live broadcasts, short videos, etc. The account operator shall be jointly and severally liable with the training institution, and the platform operator shall be obliged to inform the injured users of the actual identity of the relevant account operator.