Legal Guarantee Of The Right Of Citizens To Criticize In The Internet Age

In recent years,there have been numerous cases of citizens criticizing the government for being held accountable,which has caused widespread public concern and concern.The right of citizens to criticize is clearly defined for the first time in China’s 1982 current constitution and has a high constitutional status.Nowadays,with the general increase of citizens’ awareness of political participation and deliberation,the faults and problems of criticizing the government have gradually increased.However,for a long time,the academic circles’ research on the right of citizens to criticize has focused on the legal protection of freedom of speech and the right of supervision,rather than the right of citizens to criticize.The important function of the right of citizens to criticize to regulate state power and protect civil rights has been ignored.Therefore,it is necessary to return to the constitutional text and re-examine the right of citizens to criticize from the perspective of constitutional science.In the Internet age,the subject,object,and exercise method of the right of citizens to criticize all present new era characteristics.Tracing back to the source,the emergence of the right of citizens to criticize stems from the evolution and development of human democratic rights,power restrictions,freedom of speech,and people’s supervision theory.At present,the legal protection of the right of citizens to criticize has a multi-level normative system at the constitutional level,the legal level,the government level,and the ruling party,and great progress has been made.However,there are still some deficiencies in the legal protection of the right of citizens to criticize,such as the obscurity of legal provisions,the impediment of criticism of government channels,inadequate judicial protection,and the problems of citizens themselves.Through research and analysis on the above issues,the right of citizens to criticize has initially reached a consensus,and continues to play the leading role of the constitution.There are four basic ideas for perfecting the legal protection of the right of citizens to criticize in the Internet age: First,to improve the legal protection system for the right of citizens to criticize,it is necessary to strengthen the constitutional guarantee of the right of citizens to criticize,and to restrict the restrictive provisions of the right of citizens to criticize.Second,to improve the operation mechanism of public power respecting the right of citizens to criticize,it is necessary to improve the government information disclosure system and unblock the channels for exercising the right of citizens to criticize.Third,to strengthen the judicial protection and multidimensional relief of the right of citizens to criticize,it is necessary to strengthen the judicial protection of the right of citizens to criticize and improve the multidimensional relief of the right of citizens to criticize.Fourth,to construct a network environment in which citizens exercise the right of citizens to criticize rationally,it is necessary to raise citizens’ awareness of the right of citizens to criticize and construct a good network criticism environment.Through the joint efforts of multiple dimensions,the lawful exercise and effective regulation of the right of citizens to criticize in the Internet age are guaranteed.