Lin Lang knew Sitong.com, even though the website had recently announced that it had changed its name to Tonglang. The name was not important. What was important was that it was known as the largest Chinese portal website for Chinese people worldwide. The word "portal" was different from Yahoo's portal. These days, Yahoo's so-called portal referred to "entry", which led netizens to enter the market by providing search services, while the "portal" concept proposed by Sitong was a website that provided comprehensive Internet information resources and services.
As soon as you hear it, you know that the latter has big ambitions and is coming with great force.
But these are just Internet-level content. As the Internet develops, everyone is competing with each other and the gods are fighting. Netizens just want to watch the fun. They can feel that life is becoming more and more convenient and it is becoming easier to get information. These are the real benefits brought about by technology, and everyone should embrace and enjoy them.
Lin Lang likes Tonglang's financial section because it occasionally publishes articles and predictive analyses from authoritative people in the industry. In the past, he had to flip through more than a dozen newspapers and periodicals to obtain these contents. In order to obtain the parts that interested him, he had to spend money to order multiple periodicals and have them delivered to his mailbox. Some of them even required him to walk through the streets to buy them at newsstands every day.
Nowadays, you only need to click on a small web page to comprehensively present the types of content you want to read.
Based on this, Lin Lang knew that this website was not just a name for nothing, as it was called the "world's largest Chinese portal". Yahoo, which was still popular among Hong Kong people, was probably not its rival in terms of Chinese. Lin Lang even knew that many wealthy people in Hong Kong were holding their coins and waiting for Tonglang to go public next year, and then they would sell coins to absorb the funds.
And it was on this website that was not unfamiliar to him that he saw, in the center of the Today's Focus picture, the square one, which was the disgusting photo of Luo Linwen that they had been sending lawyers' letters to continuously, mobilizing Luo Yue's connections and exerting high pressure control to prevent it from being leaked from the main media in Hong Kong!
Not only that, along with these photos, the captions below are filled with countless messages full of venomous malice.
It has formed a news feature with a chain of interlocking trees.
When Lin Lang saw this on the headlines, he felt the blood in his body rushing to his forehead.
He was dazed for a moment and suspected that it was just an illusion.
But then I found myself somewhat unsteady on my feet and realized that this was the truth.
The feeling of suffocation that followed made him unable to breathe for a moment.
"What... did you do?"
His voice was hoarse, and even sounded angry and absurd.
"Do you know what you are doing..."
“Yes.”
He looked at the boy, and the boy turned his head to look at him, then spoke.
"Happy singer, I just threw a two-dimensional foil at you."
…
Although the name of United News Weekly sounds intimidating, it is actually just a small magazine established last year. It is no different from the vast number of new small periodicals in Hong Kong. It relies on digging up scraps of what happens in this city every day to barely maintain sales of the magazine.
In this office space of less than 200 square meters located in a secluded commercial building, it is said to be an editorial office covering multiple departments such as society, entertainment, economy, and government affairs, but in fact there are only seven or eight people.
The deputy editor-in-chief shamelessly went to the editor-in-chief's slightly larger cubicle and handed in the first draft, frowning, "There is no funding... All we do all day is make up stories about Grandma Liu's cat and Uncle Li's dog having an affair... Statistics show that 70% of new publications in Hong Kong will go bankrupt within three years. I don't think we can survive until next year!"
The editor-in-chief scolded him rudely, "Funding, funding, you only know how to ask for funding, but where is the money coming from? If you don't work hard to get some sales and pay the funding, you'll be lucky enough to get your salary next month!"
The deputy editor-in-chief chuckled, raised his head over the partition, secretly glanced around, and then whispered, "Didn't you say that the magazine received explosive news? Luo Linwen? Chairman Luo... Why don't we make some arrangements? It's better than being stagnant every day..."
The editor-in-chief glanced at the president's office, the only office in the newspaper, and turned back to say, "If you want to die, don't drag the newspaper into this! Who do you think Luo Yue is? Do you think we are the only ones who received it, but other major newspapers didn't? Why didn't they publish it? Did you know that Li and Wang Honghui, who work for newspapers on Hongguang Road and Da Lao Road in Kowloon, both received letters from Luo's lawyers... The media tycoon 'Uncle Jiu' has come forward to talk to the bosses of several major newspapers. How many people do you think have stocks in Dadong? If you dare to expose it, how many people will come after you if the stock price drops? Stealing people's money is no less than killing them!"
"If we dare to publish it, we won't have to wait for the three-year bankruptcy period. I think our newspaper will be closed down next week!"
The deputy editor smacked his lips, feeling the pressure of keeping the secret secret.
All of a sudden, the leader of Group 2, who was in charge of collecting and editing, started shouting. It was extremely abrupt. The newspaper office itself was not quiet either, with everyone talking at the top of their lungs, but the leader's shouting was comparable to that of a human Marine encountering alien creatures in the movie Alien.
"Internet, check the online news! A link to Tonglang.com was posted on the Hong Kong City Life Forum! The Luo Linwen incident!"
The entire newspaper office suddenly started moving. People were either sitting at their computer workstations, or those without computers flocked to the workstations with computers, watching the portal website gradually appear after the link jumped on the big monitor.
"Luo Linwen was caught soliciting prostitution in the mainland by the police! Suspected of insider trading! He will be deported soon!"
"Dongfu Real Estate Chairman Luo Yue has been hospitalized for cerebral hemorrhage and has been issued a critical illness notice!"
"The top beam is crooked, and the bottom beam is crooked, Luo Yue's love history is exposed!"
"Luo Yue colluded with the former retired police superintendent and was suspected of embezzling public funds for huge fraud!"
"… "
This information is below the special topic triggered by the photo of Luo Linwen being arrested.
Then, they stretched out their hands and typed in Hong Kong City Gaodeng Forum Network, which was an online community at that time similar to Tianya in the mainland. When Internet IT was not yet popular in Shenzhen, the mainland city separated from Hong Kong City by a body of water, Hong Kong City had already implemented fiber optic access to households. Among the two million households in Hong Kong City, the total number of installed home computers exceeded one million, and at least 50% of the households owned a computer.
The number of Internet users in Hong Kong, a city with a population of 6 million, has reached 2.3 million.
The Golden Forum website in Hong Kong currently has one-fifth of the total number of visitors in Hong Kong, with millions of visitors a day. In the Golden Forum, netizens call themselves "Golden People".
The post that gained the most popularity on the forum at this time was the one that quoted the entire report of the Luo family on Tonglang.com. It was gaining popularity at a rocket-like speed.
Then the newspaper employee typed again and turned to Uwant and Hong Kong City Discussion Forum, which are both among the top three forums. Without exception, photos of Luo Linwen and the deeds of the Luo family were gaining ground on them.
Above all, one after another, malicious news was like stirring up a powder keg for the turbulent port city at this time, pushing and leading the countless dark rolling clouds, which were coming with the force of a torrent to destroy the city.
Boom! The office door over there was pushed open, and the president rushed out from there, pointing at the employees outside, "Look at the online news!"
Seeing everyone gathered around the computer, he squeezed over as well.
"Something happened to the Luo family..."
"That's not right..." The editor-in-chief spoke up at this time, looking at the president beside him. After looking at the eye-catching photo, the editor-in-chief first discovered the clue.
Because after the newspaper received the photos, it met with his president to discuss the direction of the matter. And the two people who saw the photos obviously discovered the problem at the same time.
The president couldn't help but lift up his Mediterranean hair and said, "Fuck! There are photos of the battle on the window, and some exciting photos, but they're not here!?"
Immediately, the editor-in-chief and the president realized something and their eyes met.
"If I don't send it first, I'm afraid someone else will send it."
"They will be sued and go bankrupt"
"There are more than 800 newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong, and we are not the only one! And can the Luo family still catch their breath?"
"Dry!"
…
Instead, the first to explode were the mainland's newspapers and periodicals.
The mainland itself has entertainment magazines and media that closely follow Tonglang News. According to the current trend of the times, these magazines and media mainly report on the entertainment circles and gossip news in Hong Kong and Taiwan. After the outbreak here, many media in Hong Kong began to scramble to publish the "cause and effect" photos of the son of the Luo family being caught by the police for soliciting prostitution.
Along with the rapid development of these media, the Internet is also developing rapidly. Due to its high efficiency and timeliness, it is not important for these news to spread in the mainland. What is important is that many of Tonglang's audiences are overseas people. Moreover, in the focus of Yahoo, the world's largest home network, the three words "Luo Linwen" have appeared at the forefront.
Many people in Hong Kong may not visit Tonglang, but almost every netizen will log in to Yahoo, which is their only way to search for information and the engine that leads them to the Internet.
Then, Yahoo seemed unwilling to be outdone and also made this news the headlines.
A catastrophic change occurred in the stock of Dong Fu Real Estate overnight!
People who have experienced it once said that it was more thrilling than a roller coaster.
In just two days, the building on the hill opposite the Luo family's residential villa on Barker Road was filled with reporters with long guns and short guns. These reporters were like warriors going to war, holding their weapons, sleeping in the crowded building where it was difficult to stand, and not missing any opportunity for the Luo family to come in or out.
Then, Luo Yue received an impolite call from an overseas investor.
It is said that the Luo family issued a warning to Tonglang.com in a stern way, asking them to delete the false content. However, Tonglang.com responded that they are an open platform and do not charge for publishing news. If they want to sue, they can only produce evidence and sue the poster who only left a nickname called "Singer" on the Internet.
Moreover, if they ask for the removal of reports, they must provide corresponding evidence to prove that the reports are untrue.
Also, if you want to file a lawsuit, please submit it to the United States, because this news was released by the North American Tonglang website.
And then, the Luo family lost this opportunity.
Luo Yue was subsequently attacked at the board meeting of Dongfu Real Estate. He cursed and pointed to the sky, saying that he was framed, but faced with the media and public opinion that had turned against him, he had no way to defend himself. At the same time, facing the angry investors and shareholders who suffered losses due to the company's stock price plummeting, any psychological tactics of Luo Yue were pale and powerless.
What awaits him is the final judgment of investors who have lost confidence.
The Luo family's decline was like an avalanche.
Under the rolling trend.
After this incident, many people thought carefully and felt the horror of the Internet. It jumped out of the virtual world and turned into a ferocious beast, devouring people at will.
As for the nickname "Singer" who initially led and launched the attack and was remembered by some people in this incident, it seems to have remained a mystery forever.