"Human Flesh Search"

Xujun Eberlein at NewAmericaMedia.org earlier this year writes about "human flesh searching" -- rénròu sōusuò, 人肉搜索* --, a kind of research mob of the digital world (this is a smaller excerpt, the article contains more details and examples): The first time I noticed the term "ren rou sou sou" on a Chinese website, I was taken aback. "Human flesh hunting" is a literal translation, but the term, applied to the Internet, means a search engine that runs on people power -- "human flesh searching engine." Chinese netizens have made up their own cyber vocabulary. (...) A popular new expression, for example, is "very pornographic, very violent," used to desc ...