T/N: Full background story
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Summary from the article (better read the full article to get understanding):
- Men congregate in a virtual "room" or groups using a secured messaging Telegram app to view sexual content
- The girls upload their content using their own webcams and phones
- The men are the ones to tell the girls what type of content they want the girls to perform
- The men would use various tactics to force the women to perform the desired acts: i.e. disclose pornographic material to friends and family, inciting Nth Room's male viewers to punish the women by raping them, publish their personal information online, pose as the police and threaten to prosecute them, etc.
- Because their personal information are disclosed, it incites the men to find the girls and rape them, record the rape and put it online
- The girls who would fall into this would have sent so many content to their abusers that it allows them to have even more "content" to threaten them with
- So in the end, the girls become enslaved to their abusers
- There was poor media coverage regarding this case. Online male communities have been aware of the sexual abuse in the Nth Room since Feb 2019 but instead of reporting to the police, they would "beg for link".
- One man (Kim Jaesu - pseudo name) reported it to the police in Feb 2019 but the police "showed no interest in investigating the case".
- In Nov 2019, a newspaper covered the case by interviewing Kim Jaesu but influential public TV networks haven't covered the case
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