People's Hot Review: Safeguarding the Safety of Teenagers' "Touching the Net"
2023-10-26
On October 24th, the "Regulations on the Protection of Minors on the Internet" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") was officially announced, and it was clarified that it will come into effect from January 1, 2024. The Regulations consist of 7 chapters and 60 articles. After 7 years of discussion and two public consultations, they are the first specialized comprehensive legislation on the protection of minors' networks in China. The aim is to create a network environment conducive to the physical and mental health of minors by adhering to the principle of "problem oriented, social co governance, and legislative coordination", safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of minors, and provide strong legal protection for the protection of minors' networks. According to statistics, as of June 2023, the number of internet users in China has reached 1.079 billion, and the number of underage internet users has exceeded 191 million, with an internet penetration rate of 96.8%. As an indigenous group of young people on the Internet, on the one hand, they benefit from the enormous convenience brought by the development of network technology to their learning and life, and on the other hand, they are also affected by the negative impact of the internet on their physical and mental health development. According to the 2021 National Research Report on Internet Use among Minors, internet addiction, bad information, online harm, and information leakage are the four major risks of infringing on the rights and interests of minors. Fourth grade elementary school students reward online anchors with over 170000 yuan, 13 year old teenagers become addicted to mobile games and fall from a building imitating games, 12 year old students encounter telecommunications fraud and are threatened and blackmailed by illegal elements, and other news events constantly remind us that strengthening the protection of minors' online security is urgent. In recent years, the country has also been continuously building a "fence" for cybersecurity and gradually promoting the construction of a network ecosystem for minors. The National Cyberspace Administration launched the "Qinglang · Special Rectification of the Summer Internet Environment for Minors" campaign in 2020, focusing on the active website platforms, product functions, and location sections of minors, promptly identifying and addressing prominent issues that pose a threat to the physical and mental health of minors, and effectively curbing some chaotic and hidden mutations, as well as repeated rebounds. If the special rectification activities and the "Minors Protection Law" and "Personal Information Protection Law" provide a practical and legal basis for the network security of minors, then the introduction of the "Regulations" is a systematic, scientific, and more operational institutional guarantee. The Regulations focus on five main contents, which include improving the network protection system and mechanism for minors from the root, strengthening the construction of network information content, and protecting personal information of minors in specific "internet contact" behaviors. By improving the network literacy of minors, it is necessary to prevent them from becoming addicted to the internet. At the same time, in response to specific cases of online bullying by minors, the Regulations clearly stipulate that online product and service providers should establish and improve mechanisms for early warning, prevention, identification, monitoring, and disposal of online bullying, and set up functions and channels to facilitate minors and their guardians to keep records of online bullying and exercise their notification rights. The detailed provisions of the Regulations are an important achievement of the "long-term sharpening of the sword" measures for the protection of minors' networks, and also a "good medicine" to protect the legitimate rights and interests of teenagers in the online space. From stipulating that internet service providers should reasonably limit the single consumption amount of minors in using internet services, to urging parents and other guardians to effectively protect minors' personal information through compulsory clauses
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang xiao jing
Source:people.cn
Special statement: if the pictures and texts reproduced or quoted on this site infringe your legitimate rights and interests, please contact this site, and this site will correct and delete them in time. For copyright issues and website cooperation, please contact through outlook new era email:lwxsd@liaowanghn.com