After hearing Wang Yan's instructions, Wei Lan arranged for people to record a video specifically explaining the rules governing the blacklist, as well as the process of obtaining relevant citizens' information through legal means. With remarkable efficiency, they posted a link to the blacklist on the company's official website that very same day for public searches.
The blacklist interface was simple: a search bar at the top allowed searches by name or ID number. Below it was a scrolling list with names and key digits of ID numbers concealed. Further down was the total number of people on the blacklist—less than twenty thousand in all.
The information was comprehensive, including gender, education level, alma mater, household registration location down to the district or county level, and broad employment categories such as unemployed, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries. The key detail was whether they had ever purchased Longteng products, and what they had bought.
Most importantly, images were attached afterward—screenshots of their remarks, and in some cases videos—accompanied by highly accurate written explanations: which platform, what time, which law the statement violated, and what impact it had caused the company.
Combined with whether they had made purchases, it became an enormous irony. Of the more than ten thousand people, only a few dozen had actually been consumers.
The moment the blacklist was made public, it caused a huge uproar. First, the entire internet had previously been denouncing Longteng, yet there had actually only been a little over ten thousand people. Second, many of them had never spent a cent, yet cursed Longteng with everything they had. Third, every one of them had already broken the law—Longteng could have sued any of them and won, yet had shown considerable restraint. Fourth was Longteng's hard-line move of directly publishing the blacklist and