Legal Regulations On Internet Speech

The freedom of speech is a fundamental right which constitution enshrine the citizens.The development of China’s Internet now widespread, and quietly changed the traditional speech expression of citizens, what’s more, it changed peoples’ life and communication by its novelty and innovation. When citizens facing the problems about themselves or national interests,they often choose the way of online posting, live chatting or talking politics online in order to express their feelings, searching the best way to solve the problems, then internet speech occurs.The freedom of speech is the object of protection of our constitution, internet speech is the speech which expanding and extending in the medium of spread,so it is also the object of protection of constitution. To some extent, internet speech protect the right of freedom internet speech.But the freedom is not unlimited, internet need not only freedom but also order. But more and more internet pornography, internet violence, internet rumors and internet defamation occurs, challenging citizens internet speech and counties’ interests, affected the social order and public morality. So, internet speech must be regulated.Since the protection of internet speech lately start, so we should learn legislation and reality experience from other countries,and combine the status of our countries’ internet speech, to guarantee the achieve of the freedom of internet speech. The essay starts from the define of internet speech and legal protection, expound the status and problems of internet speech in china. Against the problems of internet speech legal regulation occurs in china, then concrete the proposals of legal regulation on internet speech.