Lawyer-Scholar Tong Lihua argues that online platforms wield a new form of quasi-governmental digital power. They are a private infrastructure on which public life depends.
As a check on that power, he proposes the recognition of universal "user rights."
“Comprehensive enterprise credit assessments” may be the most meaningful form of score or grade in China’s social credit system, but they bear little resemblance to the all-encompassing and all-defining citizen-ranking…
AI is responsive, adaptive, and able to simulate understanding. It can build trust, shape decisions, and sustain emotionally significant interactions in ways that static content cannot, while also collecting data and personalizing influence. Those features take the risk beyond false output and into dependency, privacy intrusion, and the quiet displacement of a user’s own judgment.
It was only a few months ago, in late December, that China released draft provisions on “human-like interactive AI” services for public comment, so it was something of a surprise…
Don't let the name fool you, the draft CYBERCRIME law is less about Crimes than a police-driven push to reshape the online ecosystem and make crime impossible by regulating internet, finance, and telecom service providers.
Part One of this article considered draft Measures that purported to clarify the scope of content that is potentially harmful to minors. This article considers the finalized version of those…
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