Research On Legal Regulation Of Freedom Of Internet Speech

Freedom of speech is a basic right of citizens to to freely articulate their opinions and ideas in accordance to their own wishes.It plays an important role in promoting democracy and discovering truth.With the rapid development of the Internet,Internet free speech,as a special form of freedom of speech,has emerged as the times require.The emergence and development of network speech platform not only increase the opportunity for Internet users to speak out,but also enhance the social influence of the network public opinion supervision;however,as Internet speech has the characteristics of concealment,swiftness,openness and interactivity,it also lead to many new social problems,such as the conflict between Internet free speech and privacy,the conflict between Internet free speech and the right of reputation,the conflict between Internet free speech and social public interests,and the conflict between Internet free speech and justice,etc.These issues have negative impacts on social harmony and stability.In view of this,how to protect the basic right of Internet free speech,and at the same time limit the scope and form of the rights,so as to maximize the coordination between Internet free speech and the rights of citizens and the national social interests is one of the important issues to be solved urgently in the law circle.Adopting various research methods,such as conceptual analysis,comparative study and case analysis,this paper makes a thorough study of the legal regulation of Internet free speech based on a large quantity of domestic and foreign information related to freedom of speech and Internet free speech.This paper starts from the definition of the concept of Internet free speech,compares the Internet freedom of speech with the traditional ones,sums up the characteristics of the Internet free speech;secondly,taking the influence of this special network platform into consideration,this paper analyzes the value of Internet free speech and its conflict with public and private interests,and clarifies the basic starting point of this issue that the Internet free speech rights need to be protected by the law and at the same time must be reasonable regulated;Thirdly,in view of the unclear adjustment principle of the existing legislation,the low level of legislation and the existent conflicts,as well as the poor legislative operability in our country,this paper draws on the foreign experience of adjusting the Internet free speech,proposes to establish a series of principles of balance of interests andproportionality of Internet free speech and puts forward suggestions in solving the problems in our country,such as fully implementing the network real-name registration system,perfecting network police system and setting up the network account scoring system to raise relevant legislation level and to eliminate existing conflicts of laws and to enhance the legislative operability.