Every WeChat emoticon you send may become a confinement for evidence

As a commonly used communication tool, WeChat has become everyone's daily skilled use of each emoji. It has become a must -have skill in the workplace. However, have you ever thought that emoji can also become a "presence of evidence"?

After retrieval of referee documents, since 2018, there have been 158 cases in the country using emoticon symbols as evidence, including 8 in 2018, 23 in 2019, 66 in 2020, and 61 in 2021, the increase is obvious.

So, what are the difficulties in the judicial identification of emoji? Meaning is difficult to interpret

The interpretation of the expression of emoji is strong and lacking the unified standards. It is difficult for the court to accurately "translate" the true meaning of the parties.

For example, in the case of a house lease dispute in Guangdong, after the lease period, the lessee Liu Moumou reminded the lessor to remind and put forward the willingness to increase the lease. Just reply to a "sun

"Emoticons. Later, the two parties had different differences on whether the expression was reached. The lessor sued to the court and argued that the lessee agreed to increase the lease and received the support of the court. Because of the contradiction with the plaintiff Liu Moumou, he sent multiple "bombs

"The emoji expressed emotions, and Liu Moumou believed that the expression was a personal threat, so he sued the court to ask Ma Moumou to apologize to the court.

In addition, the same emoji also has different display in different mobile phone devices. For example, the "embarrassing smile" expression in the Apple iOS system is displayed as "happy laugh" in the Android system, which is easy to cause errors in both parties.

"Smile" on different platforms EMOJI criminal secrets shall be difficult to identify

In some "yellow gambling poison" criminal cases, criminals use emoticons to replace sensitive symbols to express metaphorical meanings to evade investigations.

For example, in the crime of prostitution, prostitutes "smiling face

"Emoticons refer to the number of people who report to the number of transactions to the online.

Another example is that in the crime of illegal use of information networks, the criminal Pan Moumou created 4 chat groups to promote and sell its own self -made drugs and aphrodisiac drugs. Use symbols such as "candy" and "wine glass" with buyers in the chat group to refer to illegal drugs and trade.

In addition, some criminals directly use emoticons as criminals as criminal tools to increase identification and blow difficulty. For example, in a crime of fraud, the criminals were under the guise of WeChat to seduce the victims to add WeChat friends in the name of a lottery and send a "scissors stone cloth" expression to participate in the boxing guessing game through WeChat, and then use the cheating software to make the victim mistakenly believe that they win the victory. "Volunteer" to purchase inferior, counterfeit brand bags, cosmetics, etc. through the so -called "winning low prizes", involving more than 900 victims, with a case value of more than 7.20 million yuan.

Different effects of validity identification

Different courts have different opinions on whether emoticons have evidence. For example, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court's warehousing contract dispute argues that emoticon symbols are visual images that assist expressing moods, emotions and ideas.

"The expression of the expression is agreed. The Xiamen Intermediate People's Court believes in a civil loan dispute that according to daily exchange habits and chat context, the" OK "sent by the parties

"Emoticons should be deemed to be the consent of the other party and make a referee based on this.

In addition, there are different understanding of expression symbols with neutral meaning.

For example, in a dispute between a buying and selling contract, the seller sends out the detailed details of the settlement to the buyer through WeChat. The buyer only replies "Don't talk

"The emoji, the court of first instance believed that the buyer did not confirm the settlement of the settlement, and rejected the seller’s claim. The judgment was changed.

Kind tips

The use of emoji during online chat has become an indispensable input habit for netizens. Emotional symbols are conducive to the emotionalization, interest, and simplification of network communication, and to a certain extent make up for the emotional attitude that the text is difficult to express. Wait for many legal issues. The Internet is not a place outside the law. It also needs to be cautious to use emoticons under the network context, so we remind you:

● Because the meaning of emoticons may have multiple interpretations, in the network dialogue involving vital interests, the key information that indicates the attitude should be expressed as much as possible, or the emoji symbols that are not easy to cause ambiguity to clarify the two parties. True meaning, avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and disputes. At the same time, pay attention to retaining related chat records, so that it is convenient for the use of rights to protect rights after the dispute.

● The online speech should abide by the norms of network ethics and use emoticons in good faith. If the right of freedom of speech and use emoticons to insult, slander, and threaten others at will, it will constitute the right to the reputation of others and bear the corresponding legal liability. If the circumstances are serious, It may even constitute a crime of defamation and face severe criminal punishment.

● When making or spreading emoticons yourself, you should pay attention to the reasonable boundaries to avoid harm to the legitimate rights and interests of others and social moral order.If the emoji package with portrait portrait as the content as the content of others may not be based on the purpose of profit, it may constitute the right to infringe on the portrait of the portrait of others.● In some telecommunications network fraud crimes that use emoji symbols, criminals implement crimes through non -contact means, criminal methods are novel and hidden, and the harm is serious. Therefore, we must be vigilant when facing the temptation of network space and beware of being fooled.If you encounter fraud, you should call the police in time to avoid greater losses.

Edit: Zhang Tianyi

Data: Shangguan News

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