Management and regulation of China's Internet in the middle of stumbling

Abstract: At the end of last year, the domestic internet "mother jury" was officially recruited, which has the Chinese characteristics of the network, again by the industry and media attention.

The "Mother Jury", composed of 60 people, will report and review the contents of the domestic internet affecting minors ' physical and mental health, and eventually form opinions to the relevant departments. However, many analysts in the industry have expressed doubts that although mothers are "natural protectors" of their children, can they be qualified for the "review" of the domestic Internet content? In addition, pornography vulgar standards vary from person to person, is not "bad site", how can the mother of a sentence to judge?

From 2009 onwards, the relevant departments have introduced a number of new network management regulations and methods. However, there are a few that have been questioned. At the same time, a lot of "hair" for many years of regulation, still half of the PIPA, the relevant departments want to language is also ashamed. China's Internet management and norms are stumbling forward.

Strange elephant One: Mom jury

By the Beijing Internet illegal and bad information hotline last year planning and formation of the "mother jury" formal induction. According to the Beijing Network Media Association, the "Mother Jury" is composed of 60 people, recruited from the community through the screening of volunteers. These 60 mothers will be within a year of engagement on the Internet to affect the physical and mental health of the content of the report, review, the formation of disposal comments reflected to the relevant management departments, and supervision of the implementation of the results of the review. Mother the jury will be based on the principle of "the best interests of the child".

At the same time, the relevant departments are for the mother of the jury to develop a similar forum online work platform, members can submit a report here, for a certain information for review.

At the beginning of the concept of the "Mother Jury", it was criticized by all sides. Among them, in the mother jury itself is authoritative, what is "bad website" standards, and so on, many senior industry scholars deeply doubt. Some industry academics said that the mother of this social role can be a "crackdown on the internet yellow Vulgar information jury" in one, but not the entire "jury", the mother's values are different, the "vulgar" standards are not the same, " Mother jury ' to protect minors, the ultimate guardianship of more than children, almost all Chinese netizens.

In fact, the scale of the "60" of the judging group is as much a "mosquito-cow ratio" as the mass of Internet information today. And "Do not let go of a bad Web page", the 60 mothers, really can give up with children, take care of the family, and even work time, most of the domestic website information for audit filtering? This is obviously a bit unrealistic.

Strange elephant Two: the parents may seal the net game ID

In the "Mother jury" soon after the introduction of the Ministry of Culture and the domestic six network game enterprises jointly announced: Parents can be real-name system to report the minors addicted to the game account, once verified, users will legally limit and stop the minors to provide related services.

This message, a number of online game players in the forum for discussion, there are online games players said, in the domestic part of the parents on the online games on the wearing of tinted glasses, that the net is poison teenagers. After the implementation of the provisions, I believe that many parents will be the first time to delete the child's online ID. This leads to direct conflict between the child and the parent, and also causes the child to run to unofficial server games to evade regulation.

On the other hand, how to deal with the virtual balance after the account is stopped? It is understood that at present, if the parents to stop the letter, the account of the virtual money and other virtual assets remain, until the parents asked to reopen the online account, the virtual currency was reactivated. Therefore, a lot of people worry, this so-called "network Game Minors Monitoring Project" will become some online games enterprises "pick up cheap" excuses.

The strange elephant Three: The time "gets the net addiction"

Last year, some of the domestic treatment of Internet addiction training institutions used electric shock and other ways of treatment of Internet addiction by the media exposure, at the end of last year, the Ministry of Health publicly said that the current "internet addiction" definition is not accurate, should not be used to define the improper use of the network of human health and Since then, the word "internet addiction" with Chinese characteristics has been temporarily abandoned.

However, a recent "China Youth Internet Addiction Report (2009)" Once again brought it into the eyes of everyone. The report said that at present, China's urban internet addiction of teenagers accounted for about 14.1% of adolescent netizens, about 24.042 million people. In addition, mobile Internet may become a new trend of internet addiction for teenagers.

The industry has questioned why this report will be published, since the Ministry of Health has openly rejected the term "internet addiction". It is noteworthy that this report is not from the civil society, but the Chinese Youth Network Association, sponsored by the Communication University of China Survey and statistical research.

It is understood that the survey of the target group "Youth" is located in the 6-year-old ~29, "a" protection of minors based on the law and the spirit of the investigation, the scope of the survey has suddenly expanded nearly one-fold.

Liang, an IT observer, said the Internet addiction report judged "internet addiction" based on the 1996 Dr. Kimberly Young formed the concept of internet addiction, has been over 13 years, this 13 is the world's rapid development of the Internet in 13, even in the overall penetration rate is still very backward in China, the city broadband users have been quite common, "to determine the basis for Internet addiction need to be revised?"

Now it seems that we will remain "internet addiction" for a long time to come.

The strange elephant Four: Chinese style swims the classification system "Dystocia"

This January, it was reported that online games grading is expected to be launched during the year. The grading standard is from the national cultural industry Innovation and Development Research Base, the Beijing University Cultural Industry Research Institute by the Ministry of Culture commissioned research. According to the relevant responsible person, submitted to the Ministry of Culture grading standard is the domestic net game divided into three levels: all age, 12~18岁, 18 years old. In the future, each game will be labeled "encourage", "Prohibit" and "limit" the suggested label. This standard has been approved and accepted by the Ministry of Culture.

For a time, the industry boiling, for the domestic Internet management and norms, a number of industry experts are recommended for online games grading system, and most of the game players also support the implementation of the classification systems, "This is to protect minors, but also let adults in the online games have more rich choice."

However, shortly after the release of this message, the Ministry of Culture clarified that it has not yet decided whether the final introduction of online games classification management mechanism, the so-called Network game classification standards are only individual research institutions, industry organizations of academic research, not included in the Ministry of Culture Network game management work plan.

It is understood that the current Beijing officially implemented the so-called "online game classification system": Beijing online Games Enterprise products will be initially graded for adults (18 years old) and minors two levels, players need to enter the ID card number to prove their age in line with the rules to enter the game.

According to the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture will not adopt a foreign classification approach to the problem of vulgar, violent, pornographic and "internet addiction" in the online games, but explore suitable management methods to solve the situation.