The Legal Regulation Of Freedom Of Speech On The Internet

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right of citizens, is the important premise and guarantee the exercise of other rights of citizens. Freedom of speech on the Internet means within the scope permitted by law, citizens through the Internet to collect information, comments, conveying ideas, disseminate information and other content, not individuals or any public authority to interfere, obstruct the exercise of the right to punish or other forms of exercise autonomy freedom. The rapid development of the Internet has broadened the space for public speech, the network users to the Internet as a carrier for the political, economic and cultural aspects of social activities to communicate freely express their views, citizenship have been strengthened, democracy rapid development of communication between people too more convenient and smooth. However, freedom of speech on the Internet is different from the traditions freedom of speech, immediacy, interactivity, group sex, equality, anonymity and freedom, etc., determine the unrestricted freedom of speech is more likely to cause the public interest and the interests of others damage, is not conducive to guarantee freedom of speech in the network. Freedom of speech as a natural extension of the network, you can not go beyond the scope of the Constitution and by law, should not infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of private premise implementation. This paper analyzes of the necessity of the freedom of network expression, and through the analysis of the characteristics of the legal regulation, summarized the current legal regulation of network freedom of speech problems, the problems for the proposed rationalization of perfect proposal. How do we can effectively prevent the spread of unhealthy information on the Internet, but also to protect the right to freedom of citizens to exercise; how to free speech legal regulation perfect next step is on the regulation of free speech issue must first consider problem solved urgently needed in-depth study theoretically. On the one hand, China should actively learn from the successful experience of foreign countries, on the other hand also combined with China’s national conditions, to recognize the protection mode and value orientation of our country on the freedom of speech on the Internet, to control the illegal speech should not only rely on the legislation, but also to strengthen the judicial interpretation and judicial judgment, to play the role of industry self-regulation in the role of the network the control of the freedom of speech.