| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 法律學系 === 98 === Due to the push for advanced technology and the growing popularity of internet, there is an upward tendency for modern people to spend more and more time on the internet, meanwhile the one-way communication pattern of Web 1.0 is gradually being replaced by the interaction model using new Web 2.0 technology, therefore, virtual communities are developed profusely and quickly spring up one by one; whereat, virtual communities substantially utilize various kinds of interaction tools, such as instant messaging and blogs etc., to pass messages, chat, or sharing all kinds of files including multimedia to each other, and hence, adequately exerting the core spirit of Web 2.0 – namely, "interaction, participation and sharing” between internet users.
The internet has brought a great convenience for our life and information retrieval, however, due to its multiple features such as the high anonymity in virtual communities, global communication in a borderless world as well as the interaction between users, under this circumstance, therefore, anyone can easily access, use and share all kinds of information or content, of course, it may also include any improper, inappropriate, or even illegal information and content. Suppose a minor can easily access to inappropriate or objectionable content provided by a virtual community without any appropriate management system or criteria, it would have a negative impact on young people whose physical and mental abilities are still under development and are impossible to make a correct interpretation or judgment while viewing these kind of contents, or even worse it may seriously impair the development of minors’ physical and mental health. Thus, how to prevent the minors from accessing to improper contents in virtual communities has become a critical and urgent issue.
Nowadays, all major countries of the world have already focused on the security issues related to minors' online activities and have been very active to establish relevant policies or regulations in order to respond such problem. Hence, this document will aim at three major current issues covering the problems of internet pornography, compensated dating as well as inappropriate internet contents to discuss our country’s laws and regulations, focusing particularly on the introduction of important governmental regulations set forth to govern the user-generated content and customer collaboration in virtual communities and additional protection measures, such as the website operator’s self-regulatory mechanism etc., and it is hoping that our suggestions for resolving relevant problems, which are derived from the discussion regarding attitudes to establish relevant management policies and self-regulatory methods for web contents, will be able to provide and create a safe, clean internet environment for minor users to protect the minors' physical and mental development along with a sustainable and stabile development of virtual communities. In addition, while facing a constant progress of digital technology and also internet access via mobile phone has become more popular, though a internet rating and classification system has been established to govern various website contents, however, there is still a lack of adequate regulations to govern the way of internet access via mobile phone, thus, this document provides necessary suggestions on the content management for mobile communication in response to the trend of digital convergence by referring to relevant management practices implemented in the United Kingdom.
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