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Chapter 308: Chapter 130: Open the Door, Water Meter Inspection!

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Talk is talk, and jokes are jokes, but what we need to do now isn't just to wait—the four qualified individuals are all within the first two hundred pieces of information.

Criminal complaints must precede civil ones, and this involves another factor—often overlooked, yet extremely important—jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction has its rules; if it's not under the court's jurisdiction, then your lawsuit would be dismissed outright.

In those novels I read in my previous life, for example, about someone's account being hacked at the start, they actually managed to sue all the cybercriminals in one court.

That's simply ludicrous. Crimes like online defamation and slander are based on personal jurisdiction. In other words, it's not much different from real-life crimes: it's either at the place of the criminal act or at the defendant's place of residence.

Only these two places have the authority to exert jurisdiction over such cases!

So, in reality, if you really want to initiate a criminal complaint against an internet user who defamed or slandered you, after getting their information from the internet platform company, the next step is to go to the offender's place of residence to file your complaint.

Why not go to the place of the criminal act? The answer is you don't know where they conducted the defamatory or slanderous act, so you can only assume it's likely where they live,

Therefore, take a closer look: one in Luzhou City of Handong Province, another in Yuan Mountain County of Hanbei Province; there is one in Magic City, and the last in Hanxi Province.

Why not fight for your rights? It's really too troublesome, and large-scale rights protection is even more so.

Especially since I'm not like those rich protagonists who can easily hire lawyers to help sue across the country—I have to do it myself.

Fortunately, jurisdiction over internet civil rights infringements isn't as strict; you can also initiate a lawsuit based on the place where the infringement outcome occurred.

This is also the particularity of internet infringement: one person could be in the east, the other in the west. The place of infringement action is considered to be where the offender lives, and as for the outcome, it can be understood to be where you reside.

Of course, the location of the internet operating platform's computer equipment also counts as a place of jurisdiction.

What needs to be done now is to file the criminal complaints one by one, with the first stop being Magic City!

The one in Magic City, according to the registration information, is thirty-six years old this year—not so young anymore. I wonder why they are so agitated online.

It's said that one should be free from confusion at forty, but this gentleman seems unclear about what he's doing—being close to forty and still stirring up the internet.

Forget it, you all had your chance before, but you ignored it. Now it's time to see whether you're a person or a ghost.

It's just that I haven't been ruthless enough; otherwise, I would have gone to Magic City to have a psychiatric evaluation done and then claimed that online defamation and slander affected my sleep and caused me anxiety.

This would be considered as having serious consequences. When it comes to sentencing, it wouldn't be easy to tell if probation could turn into actual imprisonment.

In Magic City, near the court in Ning District, Old Tang settled down and then went out.

The evidence was basically all ready. For crimes like online defamation or slander, not much evidence is necessary.

The information of the counterparty is essential, of course, but specifics about where they live aren't available from the platform company; it requires a court investigation.

Next is the other party's defamatory or slanderous behavior, whether it's screenshots or photographs, either is fine, but if you want to use it as criminal evidence, it's best to get it notarized.

It's not that taking the photos or screenshots yourself can't serve as evidence, but their probative value isn't as high. Some judges may accept them, while others may not.

But if you have them notarized, then there's no problem.

So, before going to the court, Old Tang made a trip to the notary office to have the evidence-gathering process notarized.

Of course, if that evidence is not accepted, you can still apply with the court for them to contact the website and retrieve evidence of the defendant's statements from the website's backend.

As everyone knows, deletion isn't truly deletion; all that data is preserved on the website's servers.

The most important point is that the nature of online defamation and slander must reach a degree of seriousness to constitute a crime.

According to "Some Provisions of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Handling Cases of Using Information Networks to Commit Defamation and Other Such Crimes," Article Two, the following circumstances can be considered serious:

If the same defamatory information has actually been clicked or viewed more than five thousand times, or has been forwarded more than five hundred times,...

In such a case, your evidence is enough: the other party has defamed or slandered you to a serious degree, enough to initiate a criminal complaint!

Coming out of the notary office, Old Tang arrived at the Ning District Court with the relevant materials.

After taking a number and reaching the service window, Old Tang smiled at the staff member and said, "Comrade, I'm here to initiate a criminal complaint."

It must be said, Magic City staff are experienced and knowledgeable, and a criminal complaint is nothing to them. Upon hearing the request, the staff member said, "Okay, hand over your materials to me."

He passed in the relevant materials, including the application, and requested the court to investigate the defendant's residential address.

The staff, after an initial review, deemed it acceptable to process. As to whether it would officially be filed or not, they would have to wait a few days.

That was no issue; Old Tang stayed in Magic City for one day, then swiftly departed. The next stop was Luzhou.

At Luzhou Airport, Chi Yan had been waiting at the exit for half a day, and for her, this matter was truly an unexpected pleasure.

It was her day off, and out of the blue, Tang Fangjing sent her a message saying he had business in Luzhou.

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