On The Civil Protection And Restriction Of Freedom Of Speech In Cyberspace

As one new form of Free Speech, Internet brings about serious challenge to the Protection Theory of Traditional Free Speech. Because of Internet's characteristics of Emanation, Interoperability and difficult to acquaint, it make a lot of challenges to the base of the traditional free speech. Frankly speaking, the inconvenience to confine flee speech has increased. So a lot of countries have formed professional institution to administer and coordinate Internet, enacted relevant law and policy. What they did was to precept and indemnifies flee speech in network space. When online, how to protect free speech is the most important situation for every country. Now, our country has come into the times of information, we should punctuate inquiry to the technology of Internet and the question that how to insure between Internet and free speech. Our government should take part in intercourse of speech in network space, punctuate the legislation how to protect free speech, to face to the challenge of the times of Internet. In this case, this dissertation investigates how to protect and confine free speech in network speech systematically. It enters upon keeping flee speech balance.----Keeping up the balance of someone's free speech and receivers of information to encourage everyone free to speak, facilitate everybody's overall development and the society's harmonious development. ----This is the fundamental spirit of Free Speech.Except for the preface and conclusion, the paper has four chapters.ChapterⅠ: Free Observation and Internet. There are many people besides Internet's technician (it includes some reputable legists) thinks that flee speech shouldn't have any limitation in Intermet. So it should be considered that whether free speech in Internet need regulate by law. This section analyses that flee speech in network space needs regulate by law, through technique and spirit of Internet.ChapterⅡ: the Protection of People's Free Speech in network space. This section analyses the importance of network space's free speech to individual and social's humongous. It also introduces how other countries protect people's free speech in network space.ChapterⅢ: the Confinement of People's Free Speech in Network Speech. It analyses the cause, theory of confinement, and how other countries deal with it.ChapterⅣ: the Suggestions of Precept People's Free Speech in Network Space. This section gives suggestions on how to punctuate theoretical research and the cognizance to the regularity of Internet for law, service, nongovernmental organize and individual.