The Protection of Teenagers’ Online Rights and Interests in Social Networks

Abstract

The teenage netizens constitute a significant part of the internet users. Since the end of last century, endless efforts were made to protect the online rights and interests of teenagers by all the countries around the world. With the acceleration of information globalization and the growing coverage of internet in the world, the protection of teenagers’ online rights and interests has become a hot issue worldwide. This paper discusses that in the current social network environment, the protection of teenagers’ online rights and interests has been threatened in many ways, and has confronted with risks such as language violence, information security and internet addiction so on and so forth. In China, however, certain inadequacies exist in the protection concerning this area from various aspects like law, management and social forces now. This paper puts forward some preliminary measures and suggestions in light of the experience from abroad.