The 14th meeting of the 13th standing Committee of the National people's Congress (NPC), which opened on October 21, will consider the revised draft Law on the Protection of minors and the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency. According to a press conference of the legal work Committee of the standing Committee of the National people's Congress, the prevention and control of Internet addiction, that is, the prevention and control of Internet addiction, is intended to be included in the Law on the Protection of minors. This means that the seven-year implementation of the Law on the Protection of minors will usher in the first overhaul. This will be the first time that the way has been clarified in public channels, in order to better protect the rights and interests of minors by "strictly prohibiting violent beatings, abusing and coercing abstinence from Internet addiction and other red lines, including electric shock abstinence from Internet addiction," so as to better protect the rights and interests of minors.
At present, while the "Interim Measures for Online Game Administration" has been introduced, the "Opinions on the strict regulation of the management of online game market" are not enough, but the demand ratio is not enough. In fact, the legislative work on the prevention and control of the network addiction has been advancing. In January 2017, the Office of the State Council of the State Council promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of the Minors' Network (Draft)> (the "Regulations"), and also invited the representatives of teenagers, netizens, parents and educators to participate in the discussion. in which it is the responsibility of the family, the school and the society to prevent and intervene in the network of minors, and to prohibit the use of minors for the period from 0:00 to 8:00 per day Online game services, etc. This regulation has not yet been issued, the reason must be related to the controversial provisions such as "restricting online game service". However, from the legislative principle that the lower law must obey the upper law, the protection law of minors must be amended first, and then the lower order regulations can be legislated according to the spirit of the upper law, so as to maintain the unity between laws and regulations.
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Based on the abstract of law and the extensiveness of the scope of protection, the law of the protection of the minors in the revision should be regulated in the aspects of the prevention and control of the network, including the definition of the responsibility of the family, the school and the society in the prevention and control of the internet addiction, the classification of the network game, etc. The more operable content, including the "network addiction prevention and control" 's duty task, the penalty standard, etc., can be further regulated by means of the
It is precisely because of the lack of relevant laws and regulations that Chinese people have taken a lot of detours on the road to the prevention and control of Internet addiction, so that villains such as Yang Yongxin are mistakenly regarded as "Bodhisattva" to save teenagers. To these practical problems, the legislative level may also give a loud response, clear that the prevention and treatment of Internet addiction law is not tantamount to "electric shock treatment" and other rude means. Taking advantage of the revision of the Law on the Protection of minors, it is necessary to standardize the prevention and treatment of Internet addiction with the times. While referring to the experience of other countries and legislating to regulate the rights and obligations of all parties, it is also appropriate to make it clear that violent beatings, abuse and intimidation and other means such as "abstinence from Internet addiction" and other means of "abstinence from Internet addiction" and other red lines should be clearly prohibited. To protect the rights and interests of minors.
Nowadays, Internet addiction has become a global social problem. In May this year, the World Health Organization adopted the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases, formally identifying "game addiction" as a mental disorder of the same nature as gambling addiction. According to statistics from the Health and Health Commission, the proportion of teenagers who rely too much on the Internet is 6 percent, while the proportion in China is close to 10 percent, while the situation in rural areas is more serious than in cities. If this momentum is not contained, it will undoubtedly damage the physical and mental health of the group of minors.
