Opinions on Internet Chaos

The view on Internet chaos is to improve laws and regulations, strengthen the awareness of the rule of law, strictly enforce the law, resolutely crack down on Internet illegal activities, strengthen moral education, improve citizens’ moral quality, strengthen the supervision of Internet platforms, standardize platform responsibilities, and guide Public opinion guidance, creating a healthy network environment, etc.

1. Improve laws and regulations, and strengthen awareness of the rule of law

The "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China" came into effect on June 1, 2017, and is very important for maintaining network security and Protecting citizens’ information has had a positive impact. In response to online chaos, relevant departments should continue to improve laws and regulations and clarify the legal responsibilities and moral bottom line of online behavior. At the same time, we should cultivate citizens' awareness of the rule of law and make people aware of it, so that they can consciously abide by the law and provide a strong legal guarantee for the improvement of the network environment.

2. Strictly enforce the law and resolutely crack down on illegal online activities

Currently, major short video platforms have begun to rectify vulgar content. The platforms actively clean up illegal videos and ban illegal users. Effectively purify the network environment. Relevant departments must intensify law enforcement, severely crack down on cyber chaos, effectively safeguard the order of cyberspace and public interests, and ensure that those who violate the law receive the punishment they deserve.

3. Strengthen moral education and improve citizens’ moral quality

Governments and education departments at all levels should strengthen the popularization of moral education, incorporate online ethics into the moral education system, and improve citizens’ moral quality. For example, the "Internet Civilization Communication Project" aims to promote the construction of Internet civilization and cultivate citizens' good Internet literacy.

4. Strengthen the supervision of network platforms and standardize platform responsibilities

Relevant departments should strengthen the supervision of network platforms, require platform companies to fulfill their social responsibilities in accordance with the law, establish and improve information review mechanisms, and promptly discover and handle illegal information and behaviors to ensure that the public’s rights and interests are fully protected.

5. Guide the direction of public opinion and create a healthy online environment

The media, online platforms, etc. should actively guide the direction of public opinion and promote positive energy.

Methods of Internet communication:

Internet communication has three basic characteristics: globality, interactivity, and hypertext linking. Therefore, its definition of network communication is: with global information as the background and participants as the objects, the participants are at the same time information receivers and publishers and can give feedback to the information at any time. Its text formation and reading are based on various It is completed in a hypertext that is randomly linked between various texts and forms various meanings based on different cultural levels.

Network communication actually refers to the dissemination of human information (including news, knowledge and other information) through computer networks. Information transmitted through the Internet is stored in digital form on optical, magnetic and other storage media, transmitted at high speed through computer networks, and read and used through computers or similar devices. Network communication is based on computer communication networks to transmit, exchange and utilize information to achieve its purpose of social and cultural communication.