CCTV News:The 2019 China Network Audiovisual Development Research Report released by China Network Audiovisual Program Service Association shows that the short video market in China reached 46.71 billion yuan in 2018, up 744.7% year-on-year, and the number of short video users reached 648 million. Industry insiders predict that by 2020, the total number of daily active users in the domestic short video industry will reach 1 billion. With the vigorous development of major video platforms, video content emerges in an endless stream, which also leads to various chaos. How to effectively supervise the platform and avoid the industry from falling into "barbaric growth"?
Recently, Beijing No.4 Intermediate People’s Court ruled that a live broadcast platform compensated the family of extreme enthusiast Wu Yongning for 30,000 yuan. The platform did not regulate videos that violated social morality and was at fault. In 2017, Wu Yongning, an extreme sports enthusiast, climbed a number of urban landmark buildings ranging from 100 meters to 400 meters in China by hand without any protective measures, leaving more than 300 challenging videos. These thrilling short videos quickly attracted more than one million fans. On November 8, 2017, Wu Yongning unfortunately fell to his death while climbing Changsha Huayuan International Center.
Last year, a large number of short videos of underage pregnant women were pushed to the homepage of a social platform, using the public’s curiosity to win the click-through rate and traffic. Some video platforms also showed negative content such as vulgar spoofs, pornography and pornography, and even challenged the legal or public moral bottom line. Some video platform bloggers have adapted the existing film and television drama works, but there is doubt whether the platform has the copyright granted by the film and television drama party. In addition, relying on the huge traffic dividend, the video platform has quickly become a new battlefield for businesses to compete. Various marketing short video accounts emerge in an endless stream, selling all kinds of goods to users. Netizens unconsciously place orders while brushing videos, but the quality and authenticity of products are difficult to guarantee.
Teenagers are vulnerable to the negative influence of short videos, and parents are generally worried.
Various video platforms are mixed, which requires users’ discrimination and self-control. Teenagers are easily attracted by short videos and addicted. In the interview, many parents expressed similar concerns.
Many parents said that it is understandable that teenagers like to watch short videos, which can appropriately reduce the pressure of learning. Some popular science content also helps children to increase their knowledge and cultivate hobbies. However, if parents don’t discourage them, children can keep watching, so the time for children to use mobile phones and computers is strictly limited.
Parents said that for teenagers who are curious and good at imitation, once they are not effectively guided, they are easily influenced by some bad information on the video, so short videos need to be strengthened in content filtering.
Strengthening the comprehensive supervision platform must be a "gatekeeper"
How to effectively supervise video content, strengthen copyright protection, safeguard users’ rights and interests, and protect minors has become a problem that must be considered in the long-term development of the industry.
At the beginning of this year, the short video industry ushered in the "most stringent new regulations" in history. China Network Audio-visual Program Service Association issued "Management Standard of Network Short Video Platform" and "Detailed Rules of Network Short Video Content Auditing Standard". The former clearly pointed out that the network short video platform implements the system of reviewing program content before broadcasting. Therefore, the short video platform is required to play the role of "gatekeeper".
In addition, the "Regulations on the Management of Network Short Video Platforms" requires that the network short video platform should fulfill the responsibility of copyright protection, and it is not allowed to cut or adapt film and television dramas without authorization. The Detailed Rules for Auditing Standards of Network Short Video Content contains 100 auditing standards, including whether the title is in compliance, whether it involves pornography, whether it is suitable for minors and so on. At the end of last month, the Network Information Office and other three ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Regulations on the Management of Internet Audio and Video Information Services", which put forward clear requirements for providers and users of Internet audio and video information services, and the regulations will be implemented in January next year.
Experts said that relevant departments should also take active actions to strengthen the supervision of short video platforms and urge them to perform relevant responsibilities according to law; For some acts that violate laws and regulations, it is even more necessary to intervene in accordance with the law and resolutely crack down. For short video and live broadcast platforms on the Internet, we can neither ban them in a one-size-fits-all way, nor let them go. Instead, we should build a live broadcast and video platform that is conducive to the healthy growth of minors through the rule of law. Under the guidance of the National Network Information Office, mainstream short video platforms on the market have successively launched "anti-addiction mode" for teenagers.