Internet Rumors And Legal Norms In The New Media Age

With constant updates and progress of the modern Internet technologies, microblogging,forums, represented by new network tool is the use of a large user base and become therepresentatives of the network media network rumors With the popularity of thesetoolsbecome more active.Network rumors in the new media environment, the main website,forum, blog, microblogging and mobile phones and other new media carrier the main mode oftransmission, performance than traditional rumors spread faster speed and widerdissemination,The has superior infectious content realistic and highly concentrated newfeatures, and the resulting social harm are often more prominent than the traditionalrumors.This article select the two networks rumors2012event-"Wuhan Bureau of QualitySupervision leadership travel four-person Sedan Chair" and Zhou Kehua event as atypicalrepresentative, empirical analysis of Internet rumors spread of the mechanism as wellas the audience’s psychological impact and change. In the network rumors governance aspects,pointing out the deficiencies of our legal and regulatory system in response to Internetrumors,and the list of the world’s major countries to respond to the the Internet regulatorycause of legal norms and other auxiliary organizations, technical and other measures providedfor reference and learning.Response to Internet rumors, control and governance is to purifythe Internet environment must Road, urgently need to crack down on Internet rumors, but thethings that the two sides also decided that the presence of contradictory,if you over-punishInternet rumors will inevitably restrict online speech, the audience often remain silent becauseof the fear of legal sanctions and punishment, even determined rumor published correctness toguide the speech the audience will silence and lead to a chilling effect,also causing detrimentremarks blocked and deprived of the right to freedom of expression of the audience for thepublic authority to listen to public opinion, audience exercise the right to participate in andsupervise.Therefore, between freedom of speech and the Internet rumors regulation need tofind a strong balance point is valid path to response to Internet rumors governance, mainlyfrom government information public capacity, to encourage freedom of expression and theestablishment of a dedicated Internet regulations jointly shape healththe quality of theecological environment of the network of public opinion, this is not only the focus anddirection of the full text of the study, where the research value of this thesis.