On The Legal Risks And Prevention Of We Media

We Media has achieved explosive growth in our country. Both blog and micro-blog havehad billions of users in our country. They play an import effect in the dissemination ofinformation, restore of the truth, the formation of public opinion, oversight of publicpower, etc.However, when attach importance to the role of We Media of social communication, weshould also be aware that, We Media is not so much a medium as it is a platform forinternet information, whose information includes not only open, media, social content,but also private, personal, non-media content. Therefore, We Media can not be simplyput into the same management as the existing forms of media, as the freedom of speechreflected in We Media is of more fundamental and more important role, and thus moreinviolable, as compared to existing media.We Media itself is plagued by issues, such as: the spread of false information and vulgarcontent in We Media, users right abuse due to the ignorance of the boundary of therights of free speech, often occurrence of network violence, We Media operator’sbusiness demands, etc. All these issues are affecting the sound development of We Media,and they can not be solved by relying on its own mechanism.To achieve effective protection of the freedom of speech of We Media, We not only rejectto manage We Media by means of regulations of traditional media, but determine theprotection principles for We Media from the law. Firstly, on the positive side, toestablish the principles of human rights, social welfare principles and tangible harmprinciple, to prevent the intervention of the public authority to the freedom of speech ofWe Media by illusion of possibility of harm. Secondly, on the negative side, it must beclear that those "correct standards","political criteria","newsworthy standards" maynot be applied as the premise of the release of value judgments and emotional venting inWe Media, and public authority may not restrict topics range of We Media users’criticism and discussion by means like network content filtering.