A Study Of The Legal Regulation On Internet Café In Macau

This thesis mainly studies the drawbacks of the internet cafe in Macau and the reason of which, lists out the adverse effects brought about to the youths by the unregulated internet cafes, including damage on health, environmental safety, crime commission, and also leads to psychological health damage. This is because in the virtual internet world, youths live in virtual environment which easily leads to youths closing up themselves at human relationship, thus resulting in isolation on family and social relationship and generating lonely character; in addition, youths have weak sense of self control and self protection, they lack the ability to prevent danger. Once they indulge themselves in the internet cafe overnight for long, this will cause great damage to their academic performance, health and thinking, the internet cafe becomes youths' "nursery bed of crime", and "electronic cocaine" that harms them. The underlying reason for the above problems is "empty legislation" and "inadequate regulation and surveillance". These problems should be restored and let internet cafe to run in an healthy way, the existence of the internet cafe industry has its positive value. Therefore, Macau should really sees to the problem, with reference to those of the nearby countries and areas, to construct a comprehensive set of regulatory legal system.Up to the present, Macau doesn't have any legal frame specialized for internet cafe, Macau is only applying (Maquinas de diversao e jogos em video) Decreto-Lei n. 47/98/M published in the "Boletim Oficial" to regulate the game centers providing mainly internet games, and applying (estabelecimento hoteleiro e estabelecimentos similares) Decreto-Lei n. 16/96/M to regulate the cafe or restaurants providing internet services. For those settings providing solely internet service , the government is now referring to different regulatory styles for the seek of setting up a suitable system to govern the business. How to run the business and how to conduct legal surveillance for internet cafe is now becoming a new focal issue in Macau. This thesis pinpoints at the actual situation about the "empty legislation" and "inadequate regulation and surveillance" of the internet cafe, aiming to amend the situation of lack of order, and set up strategy for regulating which, for the purpose of adjusting to the need for development. I think "setting up regulatory system", "enforcing implementation", "regulating internet cafe according to law and virtue" is the future path for managing internet cafe.