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."
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 i[……] Read more
China’s newly released draft rules on human-like interactive AI mark one of the most direct regulatory responses globally to the rapid rise of anthrop[……] Read more
Four years ago, China revised its Law on the Protection of Minors, limiting the visibility of online content deemed potentially harmful to children, and directing regulators to clarify the scope of that broad category at a later stage. Unfortunately, new authority does little to resolve the uncertainty. The draft remains vague, internally inconsistent, and misaligned with the existing law; creating as many problems as it solves.
The adoption of China’s Supervision Law was a major blow to the nation’s ongoing criminal justice reforms. When it took effect in 2018, accompanied by a Constitutional Amendment necessary to accommodate it, it created a new branch of government responsible for overseeing all use of state power.
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