When the "youth Internet regulation bill" is established, the Japanese net will die perfectly

The five net companies related to Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. "Disagree with youth Internet regulation billAlthough it showed the attitude of "Youth Internet regulation bill" what is it? To put it simply, if this bill passesThe Japanese net will die perfectlyabout it. This is neither exaggeration nor anything, which is why Yahoo and Microsoft and others are bothering to hold a news conference. Although it is written as "youth" in the name of the bill, it is a ridiculous bill that actually everyone who uses the net in Japan is damaged, not young people. If you do not oblige you up to jail or fine.

So, I tried to summarize "youth Internet regulation bill" that shakes the foundation of the net.

~ Table of Contents ~
■ Your blog or page will be deleted as it will adversely affect young people
Contents of a ridiculous bill that can be regulated arbitrarily like any number
■ Congressmen promoting stupid net regulation are coming at the time of dropping
■ There is something to do before regulating
■ Your blog or page will be deleted as it will adversely affect young people


What is obligatory to this "youth Internet regulation bill", when it is established? It is explained briefly on the following page.

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Administrators of all websites, including individuals, if they meet the above criteria for harmful content, either make the entire system a membership system that the minor does not enter, or apply for their own site to filtering software You are asked. (Article 3.1)
All ISPs, ASP businesses, etc. are required to remove harmful contents and to stop the service, and penalties are also set up when they do not comply. As a result, the web content will be deleted. (Article 3)

In other words, if it seems that it matches harmful content by filtering, please make it a membership system that you can not browse unless you have a password, apply for your site as a "harmful site", or delete it unless you obey it Is "Penalty imprisonment for 6 months or less or a fine of 1 million yen or lessThat's it.

Of course, because this bill applies to every page, every blog, every net service, it is considered to be harmful, from a company doing business on the Internet to an individual making a hobby page Everything is regulated. If it is a person who has spirit that we will fight as much as we can in time and money at the court, most people will not be able to pay such a sacrifice. In other words, we refrain from expressing all expressions so as not to get over the law, all services and contents on the net are atrophied, it is self explanatory that it declines.

Contents of a ridiculous bill that can be regulated arbitrarily like any number


The contents of the bill itself are introduced in detail on the following page. Anyhow, "We prohibit everything harmful to young people!", It is extremely extensive or too broad.

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Article 2-2 (Definition of Youth Harmful Information) In this Act, "Youth Harmful Information" means any of the following information which falls under the criteria specified by the Youth Soundness Development Promotion Committee Regulation.

1. Those which have a marked negative effect on the formation of values ​​concerning sex for young people
2. To promote remarkably cruelty to young people
3. Those that significantly induce crime, suicide, prostitution, etc. to adolescents
4. To induce acts that harm their mental and physical health markedly to young people
5. Information concerning bullying for adolescents who may cause significant psychological trauma to the youth
6. Strongly inducing crimes such as juvenile delinquency or child prostitution

What matters is, what standards and who are who "HarmfulIs it defined as "? The point. Here is the biggest problem. It would be nice if everyone was convinced, but because it is not so it has developed into such a fuss ... ....

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A small group of young people health promotion promotion committees (maximum number of 5 people) established in the Cabinet Office will create criteria for judging whether all contents on the Internet are harmful or harmless to young people. By the way, it is probably impossible to file an objection to that standard. (Articles 19 to 31)

In other words, the judgment criteria made by five people who do not know who the whom the youth health promotion promotion committee knows is applied. After all, what kind of judgment criteria are not yet decided in concrete yet, somehow, it is a state where the order has been messed up, why decide it from the law. Moreover, since the contents decided by these five people become the standard when it comes to law, we can freely increase and change the contents to be regulated more and more from now without changing the existing law. It is all you want to do.

Extreme story, as someone of these five members, a person who is adhering to an Internet company in some place has appointed, even if he makes a special definition to make rival companies boggy, no one can stop It is. If it is still about that, still people who think that "I do not have a net if there is no net, because it is an obstacle if there is a net," if those five people included them, they instantly kill the Japanese net The possibility of setting out such a definition is also a story that can be joke free. Of course there is no way to stop it, no matter how irrational it is "law" So if you do not oblige it is a sentence or fine. It may be good to just bring a trial, but it will only get caught up in a battle that may end. Yes, it is already too late since the bill became law.

In addition, there are several other bills with such contents planned, but this person, Takaichi Takae, a lawmaker, made a plan that is a problem this time.

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It is certain that there are opinions that voluntary efforts should be made even within the LDP. However, crime committed by the actual mobile site actually has been followed, and in the public opinion survey conducted last year by the Cabinet Office, more than 90% believe that the harmful information should be regulated. If it is 100% effective only by voluntary efforts, it will not result in such a result.

Although it is good to aim for 100% effect, it will be strange to try to regulate the law to achieve 100% secure Internet even though it is strange. Let's make criminals zero from the real world! It is trying to do the same thing as on the Internet and it is unrealistic too. In an easy-to-understand example "Prohibition on alcoholism"Are examples of the world's illegal in the past, and everything will not be properly operated if it is made to law, and security may be worsened unnecessarily. This has already been pointed out by Professor at the University of Tokyo.

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Proceeding in the direction of excluding bad things with legal regulations can somehow give incentives to the direction of scooping the eyes of the net. Doing so will result in a staggered relationship with the regulators, and in any case social costs may increase rapidly.

If the regulation bill becomes the law and consequently the effect you expected is not obtained, who will take responsibility? Is it worth the risk to that? There is no value in bills that no one will earn. It is different if you want to inscribe your name in the history of disgraceful law.

■ Congressmen promoting stupid net regulation are coming at the time of dropping


This bill is about to be submitted from both the LDP and the Democratic Party, and if it is neglected it will almost certainly be established. According to the LDP draft, it is written as follows.

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In view of the fact that information that may hinder the healthy growth of young people on the Internet circulates and the necessity to develop a good environment for the use of the Internet by young people has arisen, this law is based on the fact that young people To take measures to prevent youth harmful information from being browsed, etc., with the aim of contributing to the sound development of young people.

Even if the purpose itself is correct, there are problems with that means.

Since it is content that can apply arbitrary arbitrary restrictions, various objections continue on the net and many statements have been issued.

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"Youth Net Regulation Law, Strongly Disagree" - Mr. Kei Furukawa, Nakamura Ichiya, Joint Statement - ITmedia News

"The bill aimed at the opposite direction entirely from the ideal measures and can not agree quite agreeably" - 10 people including former US vice president Mr. Kei Furukawa and professor Keio University Nakamura Ichiya, Law to regulate browsing of content sites harmful to young people whose LDP is aiming to submit to the current Diet session (Act on Prevention of Browsing of Youth Harmful Information by the Use of the Internet for the Sound Development of Young People) A draft statement against the proposal was announced on April 18

In addition, although such bills have been issued to various media in the past, they have been repeated many times in the past, but all have been frustrated due to strong opposition, and the net regulation bill of this time is " It seems that it was issued with the feeling that "I guess." In other words, users using the net are being licked because they will not have any opinion on politics. You can understand that by reading the following article.

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Media regulations borrowing the name of youth protection have been raised from within the LDP in various forms for several years. However, regulations including existing mass media such as broadcasting and newspapers have been deeply opposed by mass media, they have not been delivered as actual bills and have been buried. However, with regard to the Internet, companies that provide "filtering" technology over the last few years have grown, and it has become possible to regulate by the mechanical response to some extent, if not perfect. Therefore, it can be said that the background of submitting this bill is to first exclude the existing mass media of the noisy type from net regulation.

In reality, we do not know in detail what kind of background the lawmakers who gave out this meaningless regulation bill actually got this kind of background.

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For example, we can not grasp exactly what kind of people are in the members of the opposition faction and the net regulators. The promoters are only members of Takaichi Takaaki, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and Miho Takai in the Democratic Party of Japan, but who is the supporter of that? It is necessary to grasp such things properly and surely drop it in the next election.

On the contrary, too little information on who is the net regulation opponent is too small for us. For example, in the case of the PSE legislation, Democratic Party member Hiroshi Kawachi moved quite well, but who is likely to act strongly on the internet to absorb information and act in the Diet? I would like to share this kind of information.

By the way, Mr. Takaichi Takaichi is elected to Nara 2 wards, Miho Takai is Tokushima 2 ward elections. Among the people who have the opposite consciousness to the net regulation, is not there some people who knew now that it was their own local councilor? After all, it is our reflection point so far not indifferent to politics.

Especially, Takaichi Takaaki, a member of Takaichi Takaaki, who came out also with the quotation mentioned above, is a mess up way, and despite the incompleteness seen from anyone's eyes, this net regulation bill seems to have compromisedly compiled it. In other words, I did not think about anything about real net users, just being impatient.

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However, Mr. Kaichi Hagyuda, Chairman of the Cabinet Division Deputy Chairperson of the Cabinet Division, said, "Basically, this bill is the way the LDP thinks," Depending on the direction of the Democratic Party, we would like to submit a bill before the Golden Week. If the plan is cooked, I will not be able to worship the dust, "he said, as opposed to the opposition party, even though the bill is incomplete, it should be submitted to the Diet early as a legislative legislator. In a form to take over this, Takaichi Sao Miyuki Youth Special Committee Chairman said that "The provision need not be fixed, it is aiming for submission and establishment in the current Diet session" and said that the bill was compiled.

As a background of this aggressive summary by Takaichi and others, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda puts "Securing safety and security" as one of the highlights in the policy speech of the current Diet session and as a "safe and secure lifestyle It is essential to have confidence in public security.We emphasize that it will strengthen the exclusion of harmful information on the Internet and the monitoring and enforcement of the funds of organized crime and tightening the regulation of firearms " There are rumors that Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura strongly pushes for it. "(Kasumigaseki official) It is said.

According to the contents reported on April 23 as the latest information, it is as follows.

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The LDP General Affairs Division summarized the outline of illegal harmful information measures on the Internet on 22nd. Regarding the definition of harmful information focused on, it is thought that it should be sent off to third-party organizations, because it is difficult to draw out, "a trade-off with freedom of expression recognized by the Constitution is subtle", etc. .

Although it seems to be somewhat useless, as this bill goes through, the following situation occurs and the net will die.

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The skill of this measure is that site administrators and providers are not obligated to delete written information. Because it will regulate freedom of expression. However, given the troublesome behavior as described above, the administrator of the individual will voluntarily choose the way to delete the written information. In fact, you will have to carefully monitor your site's writing.

If the provider side also contains harmful information on his / her controlled site, you have to ask the site administrator to do something, so you are responsible for constantly visiting and scrutinizing the content. It will be a tremendous cost for large service providers, and it will not stop hands-off, and you will have to stop the service itself.

In any case, the amount of information and the degree of freedom of the whole net are drastically reduced, even if there is no harmful information, it is exhausted only by its supervision responsibility, and the shape of the current net is destroyed.

In addition, it is already improperly, knowledge of the net is biased, satisfying various interests related to parliament individuals who are not familiar with the net or stopping the act of trying to pass the law to create new interests or culinary destinations You should think that you are coming at a time when you have to do. To regulate the net, lawmakers who only ride on electoral cars and who only have a name to succeed interested groups in the back, legislators who try hard, legislators who do not want to be disadvantaged by the public, and net Dedicated lawmakers, such members of parliament should not become politicians, and should not vote even if they stand for candidacy.

■ There is something to do before regulating


When you look at the flow so far, the problem in the first place is caused by the fact that the Internet is still seen as a "lawless zone". That said, the Internet is anonymous, it is harmful because you can hide someone else to slander and be easily accessible to any malignant information. But that is a mistake. The Internet is not a lawless area where you can completely hide your identity and do wrong.

For example, in the case of schools and internal bullying, since physical evidence does not remain in most cases, the perpetrator often does not accept their responsibilities, but if you slander with a bulletin board or the like, the written record will be recorded In addition to the IP address is recorded. In other words, the physical evidence will remain. If you do the proper procedure, you can identify who is the perpetrator from that IP address. Even when presenting malignant information on the Internet, it is now the same and it is now possible to identify it more easily than a real society.

In other words, what we need now is "education".

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Professor Yasuo Hasebe of the Tokyo University graduate school, who is in charge of the review and operation supervisory committee of the organization said, "The Internet plays an important role as a place of communication and expression.The harmful information countermeasures involve communication secrets and freedom of expression , Regulation by public power should be the last means.To protect youth is an important objective, but first of all it is important to watch how far you can make it through civilian ingenuity. "

It also points out that it is necessary to develop wisdom that responds to it instead of placing the child in a "sterile state" that does not touch harmful information.

this time,Yahoo and Microsoft and Rakuten jointly express "opposite" to "youth Internet regulation bill"Although it did, among other things it gives an opinion as follows.

1. Produce easy-to-understand teaching materials from parents' perspective from parents and school officials so that parents can easily give their children education on securing the safe Internet environment of children's Internet and improving literacy To

2. Under cooperative relationship with parents and school officials, dispatch lecturers and hold a study group for parents. Also, we regularly provide information on the Internet circumstances surrounding children and how to use them.

3. By improving the status of "reversal of knowledge of parents and children" that had been an obstacle to guidance by parents by providing information etc. to parents, guardians can easily instruct their children We will help you create an environment.

It is a mistake to give up teaching what to teach at school and home earlier than regulating by law as anything leading to a crime, abandoning such efforts, and relying on the law. If regulated by law is not limited to the minimum limit, it will be expanded and interpreted more and more, and eventually you will see that it will become a state of no avail as you strangle yourself by yourself .

Nonetheless, from education, you should regulate the net right now, if you say so, please read "Bruce SchneierWhy was security broken?It is quoted in "Benjamin FranklinYou should take the words below into account.

"People who let go of the most important freedom in exchange for just a little relief are not qualified to enjoy both freedom and safety"

Perhaps this year, 2008 seems to be the first year that various battles over the Internet, particularly political and legal battle will intensify to the utmost limit. Mobile phone regulation, child porn related, youth net regulation ...... What is going to happen further in the future ...?