This world cannot generally say that the majority of things, or rather, all things happen for a reason.
Take the community of internet mercenaries, for instance, they've been repeatedly targeted by crackdowns, arrested year after year, yet they persist. Are these people idle with nothing better to do, engaging in such activities for no reason at all?
That's definitely not the case. At least, Old Tang doesn't think so. There must be individuals or companies hiring them.
There's an old saying, "There are always takers for a beheading trade, but no one up for a losing deal." It's impossible that they risk incarceration without any benefit in return. It just wouldn't make sense.
So the question arises, who are the employers of these internet mercenaries?
Of course, when a mercenary group is caught, they naturally have to face imprisonment, but not necessarily the people who hired them.