The Impact Of Online Public Opinions On National Political Security And The Countermeasures

Information Technology represented by Internet develops in a unprecedented pace in today’s world, which exposes both the governments’diplomatic and domestic decision to the people inside or outside the country. Politics is no longer a game monopolized by the elites, and the pressure produced from the online public opinion will influence the government policy, while the old structures of politics are now undergoing extensive and profound change.Brought by the wave of information revolution, Internet has become an important forum for people to exchange ideas and reach consensus. And the influence of online public opinion on national security and political stability becomes more and more significant. Firstly, it has the potential to undermine our states’capability to control and manipulate the follow of information. Secondly, the polarization effect of internet communication could be spread to real world and brings considerable influence. Especially, certain mood aroused by internet communication might intrigue extreme and violent behavior. Thirdly, internet public formation is also a process of ideology reformation, the pluralism brought by the no boundary cyberspace might shock the existing ideological system. Last but not the least, it is very difficult to constrain or limit the production, diffusion and exaggeration of internet public opinion, which makes it a severe trouble to handle with. For these reasons, to stabilize internet public opinion has become a important task for our country’s information security.In these years, some western counties make use of the Internet as a channel to intervene in the domestic political affairs of many Central-Asia and Middle-East countries. In many occasions, they mobilized internet public opinion to launch a series of resistance movement such as "Arab Spring" and overthrow the existing governments. As one of the few socialists states in current world, China has for a long time faced great pressure from the conspire of western world to contain China, disturb China and divide China. These new developments should arouse our great vigilance, and we should pay serious attention to the negative influence of internet public opinion on national security. Through different means, we can improve our governance of internet and safeguard our state’s interest of political security.