Daily Archives: April 1, 2022

The Devil Is in the Details

Protecting minors from cyber addiction looks like a good idea, but is also an opportunity for an even stricter control of Internet use.

On March 14, 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published for comments a draft of the new Regulations on the Protection of Minors on the Internet.” As readers of Bitter Winter know, in China new laws and regulations are first published as drafts to gather comments by citizens, but this so-called exercise of democracy is largely cosmetic. Rarely are the proposals modified in their final version, and then only in small details.

Read more at “China’s Regulations on Protecting Minors on the Internet”

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