The Ministry of Justice recently announced that portal websites have rights to delete people’s comments if necessary. Until now, websites only deleted postings or comments that are reported by a specific victim. However, from now on, websites can delete “any comment” that they think is wrong.
We believe the government’s restriction on the web is becoming way too extreme in this particular case. People should have right to freely express their thoughts and opinions. And, it should not be hindered (or deleted) by other people. Also, how do they identify between malicious comments and regular comments?
We think that in order for this regulation to be implemented, websites need to come up with very specific guidelines about which comments need to be deleted. Also, companies should significantly increase the number of employees who will be monitoring the comments. Unless the “deleting policy” is carefully managed, the websites will have to deal with a serious privacy issue with the users. Also, it may significantly harm reputations of the websites. To create a healthy web environment, companies have to assist the users to recognize what is right or wrong—instead of just deleting their comments without letting them know. Nowadays, most websites are created and ran by collaborated work of Internet users. Restricting their thoughts and comments cannot solve the problem. Instead, the government and IT company leaders have to find ways to inform and encourage users to correctly participate in the web spaces.
Pirating is definitely a serious issue. What are some of the precautions that people in the music/film can take to avoid the stealing of copyrighted media?
ReplyDeleteWhat have been some of the implications of these actions? For instance, I used to work at Sony BMG and they started shifting the focus of their company away from cd sales and more towards digital music sales, and also generating maximum revenue from concerts/touring.
Keep up the good work guys!