human flesh search engine

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Etymology

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Calque from Chinese 人肉搜索 (rénròu sōusuǒ).

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human flesh search engine (plural human flesh search engines)

  1. The Chinese phenomenon of distributed research using Internet media such as blogs and forums, sometimes as a form of vigilantism against an individual person/doxxing.

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