On Freedom of Speech from Microblog Perspective
Abstract: With the rapid development of network media, Sina Weibo is becoming an emerging media and rapidly popular in people's life. The emergence of microblog provides people with a new communication platform, whose characteristics of convenience, popularity, freedom and openness make microblog more easily and quickly become the one of the most popular network media in the current society. However, these characteristics also can more easily lead to contradiction, especially the legal problems. Among them, the mainstream media’s restriction on the public’s right to know, the unrestricted randomness of microblog spreading and the microblog users lack of self-consciousness are the main causes of this situation, and there are also some main ways to be found to solve these negative effects caused by microblog’s freedom of speech, including to strengthen the credibility of the mainstream media, to improve microblog operators’ industry self-regulation and to restrain the user of microblog by law, which in order to guide how the citizens exercise freedom of speech on microblog, give full play to the citizens’ consciousness of exercising their freedom of speech, so as to further improve the communication environment of microblog.
Key Words: microblog; freedom of speech; direction of public opinion
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