The new Internet format must guard the boundaries of industry development

Beijing, 25 Jan (Xinhua) -- On 25 January, Xinhua Daily Telegraph published a commentary entitled "New Internet Formats, We Must Guard the Boundaries of Industry Development."

The platform arbitrarily adjusts the pricing rules, the membership fee rises, and is forced to exceed the limit and overload illegal transportation... When it comes to the current online freight market, many truck drivers are bitter. According to the Ministry of Transport, on January 20, the Office of the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on the Coordinated Supervision of New Transportation Formats interviewed four Internet road freight platform companies such as Lala and Didi Freight, and put forward a series of requirements for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of driver groups and effectively regulating the business behavior of platform companies.

In fact, it is not the first time that government authorities or industry associations have conducted interviews against the chaos of new Internet formats. In 2021, the public security organs interviewed 11 enterprises such as Kuaishou and ByteDance in accordance with the law, requiring them to seriously carry out safety assessments and improve risk prevention and control mechanisms and measures; in 2018, the State Administration of Market Supervision interviewed the responsible persons of online catering service platforms such as Meituan and Ele.me on the issue of food safety in online ordering.

The development of the information age is changing from "Internet +" to "everything +", and the entry of all walks of life into the Internet has become the development trend of future business competition. Payment, takeaway, taxi, beauty... When these industries enter the Internet one by one and grow in a big way, while improving user experience and meeting user needs, they also expose a series of problems: some download and obtain film sources through overseas pirate forum websites without the authorization of copyright holders; some spread soft pornographic content and play pornography; some use big data to accurately "kill", or implement "two choices one" monopoly behavior to infringe on the interests of consumers and businesses, with bad social impact and greater opinions of the masses.

In the final analysis, whether it is a traditional business model or a new Internet format, it is necessary to abide by the conventional market operation rules. From "offline" to "online", from reality to virtuality, there is no "death-free gold medal" that can evade social responsibility and evade supervision and supervision, but because of the expansion of scale, we should consciously assume corporate social responsibility, and we need to keep the boundaries of industry development, that is, to comply with laws and regulations, to follow public order and good customs, and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners and consumers.

The interview of government departments is to frame an orderly development boundary for the new Internet format in the ever-changing and developing market environment. In the period of economic and social change of the Internet, we should adhere to an inclusive and prudent attitude towards the emerging development of new formats, but the innovation and development of enterprises must have a bottom line and a red line. Relevant platforms and enterprises that are preparing to enter the "Internet +" must comprehensively and systematically examine the problems that arise in the development of themselves and the industry, establish a high sense of social responsibility, adhere to the bottom line, do not touch the red line, carry out operations in accordance with the law and compliance, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry.