The Research On The Legal Issues Of The Administrative Supervision Of Online Public Opinion Of China

Internet breaks the limit of space of traditional mass media transmission. It acts as animportant means for information transmission, as well as for cultural propaganda. It expresses itsirreplaceable significance in the new public opinion structure due to its high publicity, stronginteractivity, and huge volume of information. However, online public opinion has deeply affectedsocial attitude, ideology, and value orientation as a whole outside the Internet. As a result, thesupervision of online public opinion has become increasingly important and urgent.Online public opinion has high transmission speed, large scopes, as well as stronginteractivity. Therefore, the influence of online public opinion has become more and more huge.And Internet has become the hatching site for many topics and actions. Positive online publicopinion can promote positive thinking, flog evil, and promote social development. On the otherhand, negative online public opinion may cause Internet violence, reduce governmental credibility,and even affect judicial justice.At present our country for network public opinion supervision, for the most part, is theadministrative regulation, but in the actual supervision still exist that some holes, also found someproblems. Under the current situation, online public opinion should be supervised based on lawsthrought the intervention of legislation. For the network information transmission occurs when theillegal act of setting the corresponding administrative penalty. In the process of supervision, thebalance among related benefits should be coordinated. Through authorized legislation and theperfection of related laws, the scope of responsibility of various governmental departmentstowards Internet supervision would be defined by laws. Government agency and judicialorganization would have laws to rely on towards online public opinion, in order to improve theeffectiveness of law enforcement. At the same time, one cannot blindly utilize the traditionalsupervising manner of suppressing and hindering towards online public opinion. Instead,introducing press spokesman and third party spokesman, cultivating opinion leadership,establishing court restriction, enhancing governmental information disclosure, buildinggovernmental public opinion supervising and evaluating system, and many other methods andapproaches could achieve the final supervising effect towards online public opinion.