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Four Problems of China Supreme Court‘ s Judicial Interpretation on Crackdown of Web Rumor

(By You Yunting) Recently, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate jointly issued the Interpretations on Some Issues Concerning the Application of Laws for in the Handling of Defamation via Information Networks and Other Criminal Cases (hereinafter the “Judicial Interpretation”).

Upon reading the whole text of the Judicial Interpretation, in the author’s opinion, this Judicial Interpretation has a bad negative impact upon the rule of law and freedom of speech rather than the positive value of cracking down on web rumors and purifying the environment of internet, because of considering that this Judicial Interpretation attempts to use the idea of “governing the country with severe law during the trouble times” to solve the web rumors so that current crackdown against web rumors is too hard and the legislative proceedings of this Judicial Interpretation are defective .
II. The Problem in Violation of the Principle of Legality

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The Exposure Legal Defects of Chinese Crackdown on Online Rumors

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(By You Yunting) Recently, Chinese governments have cracked down on the spreading of rumors online, and have arrested some web users for allegedly fabricating or disseminating online rumors. A lot of netizens have voiced their objections that this crackdown suppressed the “proper freedom of speech.” In our opinion, theoretically, online rumors shall better be handled through other means of self-remedy, such as the victims filing civil or criminal lawsuits against the alleged rumormongers. However, government intervention is in some cases a realistic necessity to more effectively crackdown online rumors, because in some cases the victims hurt by online rumors cannot file a lawsuit on their own initiative, often resulting from a failure to discern the rumormonger’s identity.

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Jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation by Police in the Taobao Malicious Reviewer Case

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(You Yunting) In the widely-covered corporate espionage dispute between Sany Heavy Industry (“Sany”) and Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development Co., (“Zoomlion”), Sany has criticized the Hanshou Public Security Bureau (“Police”) in Changde City, Hunan Province, stating that it did not have jurisdiction to investigate the case and that its investigation was in violation of the law. The Hanshou Police, however, replied there is no problem with it handling this investigation. As of now, there has been no final decision in the case, but the jurisdiction issue it has raised has captured the public attention. Coincidently, the author also believes that there are Police jurisdictional issues in the recent Tabao malicious review extortion case.

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