Japan strengthens industry self-discipline to purify game market

In order to avoid the impact of bad information, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "on the computer pre-installed green Internet filtering software notice", causing concern. For similar purposes, Japan's computer game software ethics Agency June 4 announced the revision of censorship standards to prohibit the production and sale of provocative series of computer games. The incident has also sparked a debate in Japan about how to confront the problem of vulgar culture. Chen has long been overly indulgent with pornographic publications. In 1999, Japan announced a ban on the production, distribution or commercial use of sexually provocative photos, videos and other products involving minors under the age of 18.　　However, Japanese law did not criminalize the above, and the ban did not cover anime and computer software. Use the legal system to purify the game market such a full of pornographic content, and highlight the effects of sexual violence, sexual abuse of the negative effect of software games is self-evident. In the rapid development of network technology today, these games in the young people on the Internet, the adverse effects will be further amplified. Clean the game market, resist the vulgar wind is imperative. In addition to the cultural product audience should strengthen their own literacy, from the demand level to curb the circulation of unhealthy publications, the State and society should take the initiative to review the prevention, monitoring restrictions, ex-post punishment and other multiple responsibilities.　　The dissemination of vulgar publications can only be curbed if the government and social industry organizations coordinate and cooperate with each other. As the last barrier to protect the public's rights and interests, legal control is unanimously accepted by all the countries in the world. Its clear, predictable and strong guidance is the most specialized, efficient and coercive social control tool.　　Although the self-control of the industry organization has no direct legal effect, it can adjust the changeable situation and produce certain guiding function, and solve the lag problem of the law. Written laws and regulations on the maintenance of common values, promote social justice, promote the role of noble culture can not be replaced. Throughout the world today, there are many countries that have adopted very stringent legal controls on the content of publications. In Singapore, in order to effectively enforce law and eliminate ambiguity and uncertainty in publications with objectionable content, the government has formed a mandatory legislative intervention model, and its license system and content censorship system are strict and pragmatic.　　The law permeates every corner of social life, the deterrent force is embodied, and the power mechanism is operated automatically and effectively in social life. Industry self-discipline is indispensable with the emergence of a large number of spiritual products, only by the Government's unilateral monitoring sometimes appears to be stretched. Before the law has a reasonable opportunity to control, bad information may have affected the audience in the blink of an end. Even if the government is determined to take monitoring, the rate of growth of inspectors is clearly not the same as the growth rate of the products to be examined.　　Moreover, if the Government is inefficient, the delay in vetting will exacerbate public mistrust of the authorities. On the contrary, the self-discipline of industry organizations in many ways can make up for the law itself and the deficiencies in the implementation process. In the United States, case law, while supportingObscene materials should be stopped by law, but there is always a debate about the definition of "obscenity" and the relationship between such works and freedom of expression. Therefore, the Internet and Communications Act against pornography is often ruled unconstitutional by the courts because of the wide scope of control. Although the direct intervention of law is weaker than that of Singapore, the government-guided model of social self-discipline has been widely accepted. Many industry self-discipline organizations have formed and formulated a series of behavioral norms successively.　　Recognition of these norms of customary law status, not only conducive to the media combined with specific market conditions to improve their own development, self-discipline, but also to alleviate the government pressure, to solve the problem of inadequate scrutiny. The two-pronged approach to new challenges to government regulation and industry self-restraint is also more appropriate to respond to new challenges to the cultural industry posed by the network environment. Since obscene electronic products are banned from publication in our country, pornographic content cannot be traded in the market. But the sophistication of computer technology and the development of the Internet have increased the likelihood that people, especially adolescents, are exposed to these elements. Parents usually only know that their children are online, but they rarely know what they are doing online.　　Millions of pornographic sites on the internet are pervasive, and a variety of provocative messages can easily get lost and confused. In view of the enormous economic benefits, the Web site and individual often carry out criminal activities in a facelift. Appropriate decentralization of industry organizations, emphasizing their self-discipline, through their internal control mechanisms to curb, not only to the appropriate sharing of social responsibility, but also to promote government and civil cooperation. The problems brought by technology not only depend on the law, but also rely on technology to solve it. Government and industry organizations can cooperate to develop technical measures, promote technical standards, and adopt technical monitoring to purify cultural markets.　　For example, the use of filtering software for monitoring after the event to retain legitimate health and sex education content, delete or block illegal obscene information. In the past more than 10 years, sex-related content has been spreading rapidly in various ways, driven by the vigorous development of new media. Such content is no longer regarded as heresy and is gradually incorporated into the mainstream media. Although the legal culture of different countries, but the mainstream of moral concepts tend to be consistent, other countries, the successful experience of cultural governance is worthy of our reference.　　In contemporary China, it is an important means to rationally share social responsibility and carry out effective culture management by adopting two kinds of government regulation and industry self-control model. Author unit: East China University of Politics and law