What kind of legal responsibility does information bear for insulting others?

Legal responsibility of information insulting others;

1, SMS insults others, which does not constitute a crime, and may be punished for public security, detained for up to five days or fined up to 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan;

2. SMS insulting others, which constitutes an insult, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights;

3. Insulting others with short messages, which constitutes a crime of provoking trouble, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or control; Whoever gathers people for many times to insult others and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined.

Civil liability of information insulting others;

1. Stop the infringement: ask the infringer to stop the infringement immediately.

2. Eliminate the influence: ask the infringer to take measures to eliminate the bad influence on the insulted person's reputation.

3. Loss compensation: including economic loss compensation and mental damage compensation.

4. Apologize: publicly apologize to the insulted person and restore his reputation.

To sum up, using information to insult others may cause the infringer to bear multiple legal responsibilities, including civil compensation, administrative punishment and criminal punishment.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law

Article 42

One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.