CPPCC members call for attention to the youth network civilization, industry authorities and websites do the same
Photographed by the surging journalist Gong Hanwen at the forum
What kind of network environment do young people face today?
How strong is the protection of the "Youth Mode"?
How to guide young people to use the Internet in a civilized manner?
At this year's "Two Sessions" in Shanghai, eight members of the CPPCC jointly submitted a "Recommendation on Strengthening the Supervision of Youth Network Civilization."
They believe that young people are in the golden age of learning and growing in their lives and are vulnerable to the influence of the Internet. However, Internet chaos that endangers the physical and mental health of young people is endless. It is recommended that functional departments strengthen supervision and operate websites in a civilized manner.
In the afternoon of April 23, in response to the above proposal, the CPPCC Proposal Committee and the sponsor of the proposal, the Municipal Network Information Office and the Municipal Civilization Office, organized relevant members of the CPPCC to conduct research on some key websites in Shanghai and held group discussions.
The CPPCC members successively conducted on-site investigations on Immediately and Bilibili to understand the measures taken by the website platform to protect young people on the Internet.
At the symposium, content management personnel in charge of operating companies such as Bilibili, Himalaya, China Reading Group, Qutoutiao, Xiaohongshu and Nanobox introduced their work.
"For front-line educators, youth internet use is an aspect that we find in our daily work and deserves attention." Xu Xiang, a member of the CPPCC Committee and the head of the Shanghai No. 15 Middle School, mentioned, "We I hope that the government will reach a consensus on how to supervise the online civilization of young people and how to do a good job of self-monitoring on website platforms. I hope that families, schools, society, and the government will work together to make young people develop better." Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University High School Cao Jianhua, executive vice principal of the Jiading branch of the Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Middle School, pointed out that in addition to strengthening the supervision of bad content, each network platform should develop more knowledge and interest courses to provide more high-quality content for young people.
"We accept all the suggestions made by the members of the CPPCC", the Municipal Party Committee Cyberspace Affairs Office and the Municipal Civilization Office expressed their views one after another at the meeting.
At the same time, major websites have also "broke the news": Reading Group will review and screen out more than 400,000 bad works in 2020; Qu Toutiao handles more than 700 vulgar and violent content daily; 100 million people watched the learning content at station B. ....
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All walks of life have taken multiple measures and made concerted efforts to create a clear and clear cyberspace for young people.
CPPCC member: "Internet poisons" continue, "youth model" needs to be upgraded
According to the "Statistical Report on the Development of the Internet in China", as of June 2020, the number of Internet users in my country has reached 940 million, and the Internet penetration rate has reached 67%. In terms of occupation, students accounted for the largest proportion, reaching 23.7%.
In terms of age, netizens under 19 accounted for 18.3%, or 172 million.
The aforementioned proposal pointed out that in today’s society, young people have become an important part of network participants, but in terms of how to protect young people’s network civilization, there are still some traffic platforms and website review mechanisms that are not perfect, the "youth model" is not sound, and young people lack self-care. Issues such as awareness and correct guidance.
In terms of review mechanism, in order to increase the click rate and attention rate, some online platforms continue to spread vulgar content such as showing off their wealth, spoofing, hatred of the rich, insulting the martyrs, and insulting the martyrs, which have become "Internet poisons."
From the perspective of network civilization supervision, the supervision of the platform audit mechanism should be strengthened, and the audit function should be clarified.
In terms of the "youth mode", the "youth mode" guides parents and young people to better watch resources that suit them to a certain extent.
But it is undeniable that with the rapid development of social and cultural life, the "youth model" of many platforms has not been updated or upgraded for a long time, and cannot dynamically meet the needs of social development.
In addition, young people lack a sense of self-care when surfing the Internet, and it is very important to strengthen the correct guidance of network civilization.
In response to the above phenomenon, the proposal believes that young people, especially elementary and middle school students, are in the golden age of lifelong learning and are vulnerable to the influence of the Internet. The supervision of Internet civilization is of great significance, but the intensity needs to be strengthened.
The proposal suggests that the government should urge the platform to establish a relatively complete review mechanism; the network platform should establish a network civilization responsible person system, do a good job in the self-supervision of network resources and information, and select and filter bad information; establish a "youth network civilization day", Guide young people to correctly choose and use network resources in a civilized manner.
Continue to increase the governance of the "black world" and "zuan culture"
At the symposium, the relevant persons in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Committee’s Cyberspace Administration and the Shanghai Municipal Civilization Office stated that we accept all the suggestions of the CPPCC members and will actively implement them in actual work.
The Paper News reporter learned from the symposium that, in terms of information governance, the Shanghai Municipal Internet Information Office focused on audio and video, online games, and online live broadcasts that have a greater impact on young online platforms, and worked with the city’s "anti-pornography and illegal publication" office, the Municipal Education Commission and other departments. , Guide enterprises to improve information content review measures, comprehensively intercept and clean up harmful content involving pornography, vulgarity, bloody violence, etc.; carry out centralized rectification of education and learning apps, provide legal and regulatory policy guidance to operating entities, and remove a batch of apps with serious violations; severely crack down on Internet chaos and illegal websites that endanger the physical and mental health of young people, continue to increase the control of "black world" and "Zuan culture" and other unhealthy online social behaviors involving young people.
It is worth mentioning that the Municipal Party Committee’s Cyberspace Administration, in conjunction with the Municipal “Anti-pornography and Anti-illegal” Office, the Municipal Education Commission, the Municipal Civilization Office, the Municipal Higher People’s Court, and the Municipal Procuratorate have formed a special work coordination mechanism to prevent juvenile delinquency and crack down on juvenile crimes. In terms of violations of law, strengthening youth law education and network literacy, etc., carry out cooperation in information notification, clue transfer, resource sharing, and coordinated management.
The Shanghai Civilization Office has also spared no effort in protecting youth online.
The relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Civilization Office introduced that the Municipal Civilization Office carried out network civilization education for primary and secondary school students, coordinated the Education Commission, Women’s Federation, Communist Youth League and other departments, established a joint management mechanism for schools and families, and guided students to use the Internet and mobile phones correctly.
In terms of website content and development management, the Municipal Civilization Office optimizes and enriches the supply of online cultural products for minors, encourages and supports the creation and dissemination of excellent online cultural products, and supports the construction of websites and applications that are conducive to the healthy development of minors.
In the next step, the Cyberspace Administration of the Municipal Party Committee will carry out precise management in accordance with the principles of “one category, one policy” and “one station, one policy”, so that the website platform will clarify the “bottom line” and “red line” of youth information governance, and promote the construction of a healthy, civilized and clear cyberspace. .
Website platform: "Youth Mode" is widely launched to strengthen the supply of positive energy content
"Youth Mode" is an important topic mentioned in this symposium.
The Shanghai Municipal Commission’s Cyberspace Administration Office stated that it will focus on promoting audio and video, online literature websites and social platforms to establish exclusive content pools for young people, gradually launching and improving the "youth mode", and shutting down functions such as recharging and rewarding.
At present, Bilibili, Himalayas, Dragonfly, Tudou, and many other audio and video websites have launched the "Youth Mode", continuously strengthening the supply of positive energy content.
Qutoutiao Party Committee Deputy Secretary and Vice President Jin Zhen revealed at the meeting that in order to improve the review mechanism, the Qutoutiao Party Committee has established a "Minor Content Protection Party Member Commando" to continuously purify content and deal with vulgar and violent content that affects the health of young people every day. Nearly 700 articles.
Since 2021, Qu Toutiao has investigated and punished a total of 217 authors who published vulgar, pornographic, feudal superstitions and other potential harm to minors.
In terms of product technology, Qutoutiao has innovatively developed the "Green Guardian System" to establish a green barrier for youth healthy content, and its online literature "Miduo Novel" platform has also launched the "Youth Mode", launching high-quality literature suitable for young people to read. .
As a platform where more than 95% of its users are teenagers, Instant APP takes technology and operation as its dual grasp, and strives to make the entire platform a teenager-friendly cyberspace.
In product design, for the first time, the 1+1 model of "youth login device" plus "binding guardian's mobile phone" is added. At the technical level, potential underage users are identified through big data analysis and machine learning, and targeted push is directed to positive content.
In the "Youth Mode" of the Xiaohongshu platform, users disable functions such as "live", "follow", "search", "comment", "share", "publish", and "favorite", and only retain "browse", "like" and "dislike" The "Report" and "Blackout" functions realize "pure viewing" and "clear screen" from a technical level.
At the same time, the platform mall, private messages and personal homepages do not display content, and the wallet recharge is closed, and users cannot enter the mall for consumption, private message chat, and post notes.
Therefore, young users cannot give tips.
In addition, after Xiaohongshu turns on the "Youth Mode", it cannot be used from 10 pm to 6 am, and the total daily use time does not exceed 40 minutes, and the use time limit cannot be easily extended. A password is required.
According to the relevant person in charge of Himalaya, the platform has launched a youth protection mode since December 2018. In this mode, young people cannot initiate live broadcasts on the platform, cannot consume love diamonds, or read novels (e-books), etc.
The platform also implements measures such as establishing a dedicated content pool for young people and restricting social functions to strengthen the control of young people's web-related content.
As of 2020, the number of users who have used the youth model of the platform reached 1.12 million, of which 340,000 were active users.
The person in charge of Bilibili stated that Station B launched the "Youth Protection Plan" in March 2018, and used special strategies for content display and community authority setting for minors.
It is worth mentioning that according to statistics, more than 100 million people will watch learning content at station B in 2020.
Reading Group, Nano Box, etc. also stated at the symposium that they have all launched the "Youth Mode".
Among them, China Reading Group revealed that more than 400,000 bad works on the platform will be screened out in 2020. For elements that are not suitable for young people, such as the traditional protagonist suicide start, "has basically withdrawn from (the platform)."
After the meeting, Xu Xiang, member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and principal of Tongji University’s Cunzhi School, said: “The survey and symposium are in a better format, allowing CPPCC members and those concerned about youth cybersecurity to have further contact with Internet providers. It is helpful to understand the work done by the industry in daily supervision and self-discipline. On the whole, this mechanism helps to promote the construction of network civilization and the protection of minors on the Internet."
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