A Study On Improving The Regulation Mechanism Of Internet Information Communication

Information communication of Internet is accompanied by its very birth. In an increasinglyglobalized world, the speed and scope of information communication has been explosively growingwith geometric series. As a part of the world, Chinese internet development has attracted theworldwide attention like Chinese economic development. China has moved to a digital era ofomnimedia with the emergence of the new Instant Messaging Tools such as Blog, Microblog, andWechat, in which normal citizens can disseminate their viewpoints, thoughts and opinions throughany kind of these approaches. All the events indicate a higher and higher efficiency of informationreceiving and re-communication, which follows the developing law of Internet.However, the information expression and communication in Internet world include thefollowing4types, i.e.1) the objective description like Wang Kai incident that publish the seriousmudslides messages in Zhouqu, Qinghai Province, Yihuang self-immolation incident of Forcedrelocation, and Yunnan incident of private use of government vehicles to go abroad;2) theinformation that expresses grievance and discontent such as the death of Qian Yunhui (a petitioningvillage head), the conflict between apprentices of Guo Degang and journalists, the case of WangShuai’s Internet posting in Lingbao, Henan Province, and the “Ligang Gate” in Hebei, etc.;3) thecases of attacking other people through Instant messaging tools, like the case “Wu Fang appealingYang Yuting” in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, the first case of “Internet threatening personal security”uncovered by Beijing Police;4) the intentional hype in the Internet to increase click-through rate,such as “my husband went to other’s bed on the marriage date” and “the secret love between me andmy father-in-law”, etc.In face of various and numerous Internet information, how to effectively receive, identity, use,and communicate the information becomes one of the key questions of Internet regulators.The first point to assure and regulate internet communication is the self-regulation ofpractitioners. The information recipients have to improve their information screening capacity and toavoid disseminating unconfirmed information, which is the necessary condition of regulatinginformation communication. Internet regulators should enact a series of information communicationrules that can be applied to current and forthcoming information, which is the fundamental conditionfor regulating information communication.For more than a decade, China has formed one kind of regulating institution that suits Chinesenational conditions with the involvement of multiple sectors. Furthermore, China also publishedsome legal documents on Internet, which has positive effects on domestic Internet informationcommunication, including Administration of Internet Information Services Procedures, InterimProvisions on the Administration of Internet Publication, Administration of Internet NewsInformation Services Provisions, Administration of Engagement by Internet Sites in the Business of News Publication Tentative Provisions, Measures on the Administration of the Publication ofAudio-Visual Programs through Internet or Other Information Network, Administrative Protection ofCopyright on the Internet, Regulation on the Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination ofInformation, etc.However, there are a lot of deficiencies in regulating Internet information communication.There are few Internet self-regulation rules and many problems of multiple leaderships that haven’tbeen resolved. It needs a longer period in order to effectively operate. The regulative laws and rulesare mostly in a low level and lack of authority, which has a great gap towards the coordinative andsystematic requirements.It is predictable that some much more convenient Instant Messaging Tools will emerge in thefuture. As a result, the Internet regulators ought to follow the great trend of Internet developmentactively, positively, and rationally. Regulators should act a rule maker, an information guide, and asupervisor of supervising institution, which can balance blockage and persuasion of informationcommunication.With respect to the national level, it should firstly clarify the obligations and duties of InternetRegulations agencies and avoid the conflicts from sector interests. Moreover, the relevantlaw-making agencies about Internet regulations should revise the current laws and rules as soon aspossible on the one hand; and the agencies should prepare for the future “Law of InternetInformation Communication” in accordance with the developing features of Internet informationcommunication on the other hand. Lastly, our country should enact a series of laws and rules in orderto effectively supervise the Internet regulators and try to avoid abusing the power, which maydevelop the reasonable spaces between Internet free expression and Internet regulation and purifythe Internet information communication environment.