On December 16, the Anti-Cyber Violence Forum was held in Shanghai. With the rapid development of the Internet, the problem of online violence is becoming more and more serious, which poses a huge threat to social order and individual rights and interests. In order to jointly build a harmonious and safe cyberspace and promote the resolution of cyberviolence, the Shanghai Internet Industry Federation, under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administration of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, jointly organized an anti-cyberviolence forum with the mainstream media platform The Paper.
With the theme of "Countering Cyberviolence and Curbing Anger - Building a Harmonious Cyberspace for Progress, Goodness", the forum adopted the form of the main forum + media and platform sub-forums and legal sub-forums to conduct in-depth and three-dimensional and multi-dimensional discussions.
The forum invited representatives of government agencies, Internet platforms, mainstream media, and legal experts to discuss how to play their respective roles in the process of countering cyber violence and find new models, new breakthroughs, and new directions for safeguarding cyberspace security.
Yu Minxiao, Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Vice President of the Shanghai Internet Industry Federation
Yu Minxiao, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, delivered a keynote speech, sharing the key points of cyber violence governance, emphasizing the need to consolidate the main responsibility of websites and make achievements in risk early warning, non-proliferation, and victim protection; to give full play to the role of coordination and linkage, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the public security, procuratorate, courts and other departments should establish corresponding mechanisms for coordination and linkage of cyber governance; it is necessary to strengthen legal safeguards, persist in shining a sharp sword and striking hard; and cultivate cyber civilization and continue to purify the cyber ecological space.
In the speech session of the main forum, Professor Huang Wushuang of East China University of Political Science and Law, Wang Feng, Dean of the School of Communication of East China Normal University, Liu Yonggang, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Paper, Chen Zilei, Executive Director of the "High-end Development and International Rules" Decision-making and Consulting Base of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and Professor of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, and Luo Xiang, Professor of the School of Criminal Justice of China University of Political Science and Law, respectively shared their views.
Huang Wushuang, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of Intellectual Property Research Center, East China University of Political Science and Law, Vice President of Intellectual Property Law Research Association of China Law Society
In his speech on the theme of "Anti-Unfair Competition Laws and Regulations for Online Violence", Huang Wushuang focused on sharing how to use civil law to regulate online violence, and he believed that the resistance to online violence may be civil or the content stipulated in the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, but if the conditions are suitable, the provisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law can claim high compensation, which is more deterrent to the initiators of online violence.
Wang Feng, Dean of the School of Communication, East China Normal University
Wang Feng appealed in the keynote speech of "Dealing with Fuzzy Cyberbullying and Shaping Internet Civilization Together": "We must maintain the fullest respect for other individuals, and this respect may be a little higher than the level of respect in life, which is related to the gap between online social behavior and real social behavior, we are anonymous on the Internet, so at this time we must establish a principle of anonymous public action that everyone generally abides by." ”
Liu Yonggang, president and editor-in-chief of The Paper
Liu Yonggang said in his keynote speech on "Clearly Opposing Cyberbullying, Doing Good to Resolve Cyberviolence" that the mainstream media should take a clear stand against cyberviolence, resist temptation and avoid cyberviolence, resolutely crack down on cyberviolence, and do good to resolve cyberviolence.
Chen Zilei, Executive Director of the "High-end Development and International Rules" Decision-making and Consulting Base of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and Professor of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
Chen Zilei shared his thoughts on restricting online violence from the perspective of economics, and he mentioned that "key voting" determines the relationship between supply and demand, and "traffic orientation" determines the relationship of interests. He believes that the eradication of online violence should be based on the demand side, supplemented by the supply side. Because there is no demand there is no market, and no one goes to see online violence, so the key is that demand has a greater impact.
Luo Xiang, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law
Luo Xiang shared three sets of paradoxes in the governance of online violence in combination with cases, he said that in the face of online violence, legal governance is not omnipotent, it can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause, and the most important thing is to cultivate respect for others. "If you are mocked and blasphemed, don't think it's your fault, don't think you're not dignified, you're still human. Be brave enough to take up the weapon of the law, the law will defend your dignity, and the law will restore your dignity. ”
Jiang Xun (left), member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the Xi and Culture and History Committee, and president of the Shanghai Internet Industry Federation, and Zheng Hanwen, co-founder of the Internet Federation's special fund for anti-online violence and chairman of Shanghai Baihui Medical Technology Group (right)
At the conference, the "Anti-Cyber Violence Special Fund" was launched, which was guided by the Cyberspace Administration of China, hosted by the Internet Federation, and funded by Parkway Medical, and will be used to hire an expert group composed of experts in public opinion, law and psychology to provide professional guidance and support for anti-cyberviolence work. Through the regular compilation of anti-cyberviolence white papers, collect and summarize various typical cases, analyze the reasons and impacts behind them, and put forward relevant suggestions and countermeasures, and convey important anti-cyberviolence information and warnings to the public and relevant departments.
Jiang Ke, Director of the Network Management Division of the Cyberspace Administration Office of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee
In the sub-forum of the media platform, Jiang Ke, Director of the Network Management Division of the Cyberspace Administration Office of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and Jin Zhongwei, Editor-in-Chief of Observer.com, delivered keynote speeches. In his speech on the theme of "'Breaking' and 'Standing' the Governance of Online Violence", Jiang Ke introduced the special rectification actions and the construction of laws and regulations of the cyberspace department, and emphasized the need to continue to promote positive energy, strengthen positive guidance, and strive to create a good online ecology.
Jin Zhongwei, editor-in-chief of the Observer.com
In his speech on the theme of "Suppressing Cyberviolence with Innovative Digital Judicial Practices", Jin Zhongwei mentioned that the Internet is not a virtual world, and all kinds of behaviors can occur, and it is a digital space. Therefore, he suggested that platforms, people, and the judicial system should participate in governance together, and use cases of punishment of digital assets to educate the public, so as to greatly lower the threshold for punishing online violence.
In the roundtable session, Zhou Yi, vice president and editor-in-chief of Bilibili, Liu Dong, executive editor-in-chief of Xiaohongshu, Quan Sen, deputy editor-in-chief of Douyin Security, Li Shiqiang, deputy editor-in-chief of Weibo, and Zeng Zhifeng, deputy editor-in-chief of WeChat, discussed "how to jointly resist online violence and build a harmonious online environment", with Li Yunfang, editorial board member of The Paper, as the moderator. The guests who participated in the discussion believed that online violence has become a public nuisance on the Internet, and it has been the consensus of the whole people to resist and deal with it, and they hope that through everyone's joint efforts, we can achieve no violence on the Internet.
In the sub-forum in the field of law, Gu Ye, Deputy Director of the Network Management Division of the Cyberspace Administration of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Weng Yinyun, Senior Prosecutor of the Fourth Procuratorate Department of the Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate, and Yang Yuyu, Partner of Dentons (Shanghai) Law Firm, delivered keynote speeches.
Gu Ye reviewed the history of online violence, analyzed the causes, and put forward suggestions on social co-governance by government departments to strengthen coordinated supervision, platforms to effectively implement main responsibilities, media to actively carry out public opinion guidance, and netizens to actively participate. Finally, he called on netizens to respect the personality and reputation of others when speaking online, the Internet is not a place outside the law, and the Internet should not be arbitrary, and surfing the Internet in accordance with laws and regulations is the basic requirement for every netizen.
Weng Yinyun, a third-level senior prosecutor of the Fourth Procuratorate Department of the Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate
Weng Yinyun suggested that at the legislative level, a comprehensive regulatory system for online violence should be established, and the role of guiding cases should be actively brought into play. At the same time, the legal aid system should be improved at the judicial level, and the regulation of online platforms should be strengthened at the level of social governance.
Yang Yuyu, partner of Dentons (Shanghai) Law Firm
In his speech, Yang called on colleagues in the legal profession to devote their time to legal aid against cyberviolence.
In the roundtable session with the theme of "Governance and Public Welfare of Online Violence", Cao Jian, Director of the Law and Policy Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate, Wang Daojun, Editor-in-Chief of Blue Whale Finance, Wang Xiaoyan, President of Shanghai Legal Daily, Zheng Hanwen, Co-initiator of the Anti-Cyber Violence Special Fund and Chairman of Shanghai Baihui Medical Technology Group, and Zhang Xiaosheng and Wang Qin, representatives of the executive director unit of the Shanghai Internet Industry Federation and partners of Dentons (Shanghai) Law Firm, had a discussion. A consensus is that in the face of online violence, it is necessary to rely on the power of the law, and at the same time, the legal profession and public welfare organizations should also assist and help individuals and enterprises affected by online violence in multiple dimensions.