In order to create a festive and peaceful online atmosphere for the Spring Festival, the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a one-month special action of "Clear and Bright 2024 Spring Festival Network Environment Rectification" from January 29, focusing on the platform links and service types commonly used by netizens during the Spring Festival, focusing on rectifying outstanding problems in the network ecology that are strongly reflected by the people, and effectively purifying the network environment.
China is a cyber powerhouse. As of June 2023, the number of Chinese netizens has reached 107.9 billion people, with an Internet penetration rate of 764%, and the scale of short** users reached 102.6 billion people, accounting for 95 percent of the total number of Internet users2%。The Spring Festival holiday is the peak period for netizens to surf the Internet, and it is the right time to create a clearer online atmosphere for the Spring Festival for the people.
Compacting regulatory responsibilities is a prerequisite. For relevant departments, it is necessary to take the initiative to respond to the concerns of the people, focus on various prominent problems that violate the online ecology that netizens are concerned about, take pragmatic measures, implement regulatory responsibilities, and crack down on all kinds of online chaos in a tight, strict and fast manner. From concocting false information and malicious marketing to hype up problems, to fabricating false content and exaggerating extreme emotions in the form of year-end inventory and returning to their hometowns, to concocting and disseminating rumors and information related to public policies, social livelihood, transportation and other fields, and disrupting social order, these key problems that disrupt the online ecology must be severely cracked down on and resolutely suppressed. Judging from the results of the two-month special action of "Rectification of Information Content on Clear, Life Service Platforms" carried out by the Cyberspace Administration of China in the early stage, a total of more than 7.9 million pieces of illegal and negative information have been cleaned up, more than 1.7 million accounts have been disposed of, 562 have been closed, and 201 applications have been removed. Facts have proved that as long as the regulatory responsibilities are consolidated at all levels and the key points of the problem are focused, a clean network environment can be effectively maintained. While taking special rectification actions, relevant departments should also carefully analyze and study, trace the source, find out the cause of the problem, start from the level of long-term mechanism, make up for the shortcomings and loopholes, establish and improve the relevant responsibility mechanism, and continue to consolidate the results of rectification.
Implementing the main responsibility is the key. Objectively speaking, the reason why there are all kinds of cyber chaos in cyberspace is due to the mercenary factor of a small number of people. In the Internet era, some so-called "Internet celebrities" do not hesitate to play "sidekicks" in order to win eyeballs and earn more traffic, and even maliciously fabricate false news and do some things that violate public order and good customs, the purpose of which is to obtain benefits. However, on the whole, no matter how you promote curiosity hunting behavior, violate public order and good customs, no matter how you concoct false information and malicious marketing hype, in the final analysis, the platform lacks efficient and effective review checks. If the major online platforms earnestly fulfill their main responsibilities, strictly control the gates, and comprehensively, timely and accurately filter all kinds of information that violates the online ecology, and prevent these chaotic phenomena wearing various "vests" from "coming out", a few people will not be able to set off the so-called "storm". For all kinds of online platforms, in this critical period before and after the Spring Festival, it is necessary to cheer up, establish and improve a more pragmatic and effective review and control mechanism, and accurately identify all kinds of network chaos, which will naturally form a clean and upright network environment.
The responsibility of netizens is the key. The network environment is rectified for everyone, and the network environment is rectified by everyone. Carrying out the special action is a systematic project, involving all aspects, including the responsibility of the department, the responsibility of the platform, and the responsibility of the majority of netizens. For the majority of netizens, it is necessary to improve their discernment, to see clearly which is positive energy, which is negative energy, which is mixed news, and which is information that disrupts the network ecology, and dare to fight head-on against all kinds of network chaos, dare to voice the mainstream, and give voice to the public. At the same time, the vast number of netizens should also actively report all kinds of online chaos, and they must not let things go unchecked, and they must not hang up on their own affairs. Cyberspace is our shared spiritual home. Cyberspace is clear and ecologically sound, which is in the interests of the people. The miasma of cyberspace and the deterioration of the ecology are not in the interests of the people. If the majority of netizens work together to gather a strong positive energy on the Internet, it will make all kinds of Internet chaos lose their room for survival. Only by making continuous efforts, working for a long time, and everyone taking action, can we make the network environment clearer.
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