Regulations on the Internet Protection of Minors
Order of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China
Nº 766
The «Regulations on the Internet Protection of Minors» was adopted at the 15th executive meeting of the State Council on September 20, 2023, and is hereby announced and will come into effect on January 1, 2024.
Prime Minister Li Qiang
October 16, 2023
Regulations on the Internet Protection of Minors
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1 In order to create an online environment that is conducive to the physical and mental health of minors and protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors, in accordance with the «Minor Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China», the «Network Security Law of the People’s Republic of China», and the «Personal Information Law of the People’s Republic of China» Protection Law» and other laws to formulate these regulations.
Article 2 The work of protecting minors online should adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the core socialist values as the guide, adhere to the principle that is most beneficial to minors, and adapt to the healthy physical and mental development of minors and the laws and characteristics of cyberspace. Implement social co-governance.
Article 3: The national cybersecurity and informatization department is responsible for coordinating the work of protecting minors on the Internet and doing a good job in protecting minors on the Internet in accordance with their duties.
The national press and publication, film departments and the State Council’s education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, health, market supervision and management, radio and television and other relevant departments shall do a good job in protecting minors online in accordance with their respective responsibilities.
Local people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall do a good job in protecting minors online in accordance with their respective responsibilities.
Article 4 The Communist Youth League, Women’s Federation, Trade Unions, Disabled Persons’ Federation, Committee on Care for the Next Generation, Youth Federation, Student Federation, Young Pioneers and other people’s organizations, relevant social organizations, grassroots mass autonomous organizations , assist relevant departments in protecting minors online and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of minors.
Article 5: Schools and families should educate and guide minors to participate in activities beneficial to physical and mental health, use the Internet in a scientific, civilized, safe and reasonable manner, and prevent and intervene in minors’ addiction to the Internet.
Article 6 Network product and service providers, personal information processors, and intelligent terminal product manufacturers and sellers shall abide by laws, administrative regulations and relevant national regulations, respect social morality, abide by business ethics, be honest and trustworthy, and fulfill the obligations of minors on the Internet Protection obligations and social responsibilities.
Article 7 Network product and service providers, personal information processors, and smart terminal product manufacturers and sellers shall accept supervision from the government and society, cooperate with relevant departments in implementing supervision and inspections involving the online protection of minors in accordance with the law, and establish convenient, Reasonable and effective channels for complaints and reports, publicize the channels and methods for complaints and reports in a conspicuous manner, and promptly accept and handle public complaints and reports.
Article 8 Any organization or individual who discovers a violation of the provisions of these Regulations may lodge a complaint, report. The department that receives the complaint or report shall promptly handle it in accordance with the law; if it does not fall within the responsibilities of the department, it shall promptly transfer it to the department with the authority to handle it.
Article 9 Internet-related industry organizations should strengthen industry self-discipline, formulate industry standards related to the online protection of minors, guide members to fulfill their obligations to protect minors online, and strengthen the online protection of minors.
Article 10 News media shall, through news reports, special columns (programs), public service advertisements, etc., carry out publicity on laws and regulations, policy measures, typical cases and relevant knowledge for the protection of minors online, and conduct publicity on behaviors that infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors. Carry out public opinion supervision and guide the whole society to participate in the online protection of minors.
Article 11: The state encourages and supports the strengthening of scientific research and personnel training in the field of online protection of minors, and the development of international exchanges and cooperation.
Article 12: Organizations and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the protection of minors on the Internet shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant national regulations.
Chapter 2 Promotion of Internet Literacy
Article 13: The education department of the State Council shall incorporate Internet literacy education into the quality education content of schools, and work with the national cybersecurity and informatization department to formulate evaluation indicators for minors’ Internet literacy.
The education department should guide and support schools to carry out network literacy education for minors, focusing on the formation of network moral awareness, the cultivation of network legal concepts, network use capacity building, personal and property safety protection, etc., to cultivate minors’ network security awareness, civilized literacy, and behavioral habits and protective skills.
Article 14 People’s governments at or above the county level shall scientifically plan and rationally deploy, promote the balanced and coordinated development of public welfare Internet services, strengthen the construction of public cultural facilities that provide public welfare Internet services, and improve the Internet access conditions for minors.
Local people’s governments at or above the county level should provide students with high-quality Internet literacy education courses by equipping primary and secondary schools with instructors with corresponding professional capabilities, government purchasing services, or encouraging primary and secondary schools to purchase relevant services on their own.
Article 15 Where schools, communities, libraries, cultural centers, youth palaces and other places provide Internet access service facilities for minors, they shall arrange for professionals, recruit volunteers, etc., and install network protection software for minors or take measures to protect minors. Other security protection technical measures provide minors with online guidance and a safe and healthy online environment.
Article 16 Schools should incorporate content such as improving students’ Internet literacy into educational and teaching activities, and reasonably use the Internet to carry out teaching activities, establish and improve the management system for students to access the Internet during school, and standardize the management of intelligent terminal products brought into school by underage students in accordance with the law. , help students develop good Internet habits, cultivate students’ awareness of network security and network law, and enhance students’ ability to obtain and analyze network information.
Article 17 Guardians of minors should strengthen the construction of family education and family tradition, improve their own Internet literacy, regulate their own Internet use behavior, and strengthen the education, demonstration, guidance and supervision of minors’ Internet use behavior.
Article 18 The state encourages and supports the research, development, production and use of network protection software, intelligent terminal products and minors modes, minors’ special areas, etc. that specifically serve minors and adapt to the laws and characteristics of minors’ physical and mental health development. Network technologies, products, and services will strengthen the construction and transformation of network barrier-free environments to help minors broaden their horizons, cultivate their sentiments, and improve their quality.
Article 19 Network protection software for minors and intelligent terminal products specifically for use by minors shall have the ability to effectively identify illegal information and information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors, protect the personal information rights and interests of minors, and prevent minors from It has functions such as being addicted to the Internet and making it easier for guardians to perform their guardianship duties.
The national cybersecurity and informatization department, together with relevant departments of the State Council, shall clarify relevant technical standards or requirements for minors’ network protection software and intelligent terminal products specifically for use by minors based on the needs of minors’ network protection work, and guide and supervise network-related industry organizations in accordance with Relevant technical standards and requirements evaluate the effectiveness of minors’ network protection software and smart terminal products specifically for use by minors.
Manufacturers of smart terminal products should install network protection software for minors before the product leaves the factory, or use a conspicuous method to inform users of the installation channels and methods. Sellers of smart terminal products should prominently inform users of the installation of network protection software for minors as well as the installation channels and methods before selling the products.
Guardians of minors should reasonably use and guide minors to use network protection software, intelligent terminal products, etc., to create a good family environment for network use.
Article 20: Internet platform service providers with a large number of minor users or that have a significant impact on minor groups shall fulfill the following obligations:
(1) In the design, research and development, operation and other stages of network platform services, fully consider the characteristics of minors’ physical and mental health development, and regularly conduct impact assessments on minors’ network protection;
(2) Provide minors mode or minors area to facilitate minors to obtain products or services on the platform that are beneficial to their physical and mental health;
(3) Establish and improve the compliance system for minors’ online protection in accordance with national regulations, and establish an independent agency composed mainly of external members to supervise the situation of minors’ online protection;
(4) Follow the principles of openness, fairness, and impartiality, formulate special platform rules, clarify the online protection obligations of minors on the platform’s product or service providers, and remind minor users in a conspicuous manner of the online protection rights and legal rights enjoyed by minor users. Remedies for cyber infringement;
(5) Stop providing services to any product or service provider on the platform that violates laws and administrative regulations and seriously infringes on the physical and mental health of minors or infringes on other legitimate rights and interests of minors;
(6) Publish a special social responsibility report on the online protection of minors every year and accept social supervision.
The specific identification methods for network platform service providers that have a large number of minor users or have a significant impact on minor groups as mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be formulated separately by the national cybersecurity and informatization department in conjunction with relevant departments.
Chapter 3 Network Information Content Standards
Article 21 The state encourages and supports the production, reproduction, release, and dissemination of socialist core values, advanced socialist culture, revolutionary culture, and excellent traditional Chinese culture, to build a strong sense of the Chinese nation’s community, and to cultivate minors’ feelings for family and country and good Morality, online information that guides minors to develop good living habits and behavioral habits, and creates a clear online space and a good online ecology that is conducive to the healthy growth of minors.
Article 22 No organization or individual may produce, copy, publish or disseminate content that promotes obscenity, pornography, violence, cults, superstition, gambling, induces self-harm and suicide, terrorism, separatism, extremism, etc. that endangers the physical and mental health of minors. Content network information.
No organization or individual is allowed to produce, copy, publish, disseminate or hold obscene and pornographic online information about minors.
Article 23 If online products and services contain information that may cause or induce minors to imitate unsafe behaviors, commit behaviors that violate social ethics, produce extreme emotions, develop bad habits, etc. that may affect the physical and mental health of minors, the production, organizations and individuals that copy, publish, and disseminate this information should give a prominent reminder before displaying the information.
The national cybersecurity and informatization department, in conjunction with the national press and publication, film departments and the education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, radio and television and other departments of the State Council, shall determine the specific types, scope, and scope of information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors on the basis of the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Judgment criteria and tips.
Article 24 No organization or individual may produce, copy, publish, or disseminate information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors as stipulated in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 of these Regulations in online products and services specifically targeting minors. Information.
Internet product and service providers shall not display information that may affect minors as stipulated in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 of these Regulations on the home page, pop-up windows, hot searches, or other key links where the product or service is prominently located and easily attracts the attention of users. Physical and mental health information.
Online product and service providers are not allowed to conduct commercial marketing to minors through automated decision-making.
Article 25: No organization or individual may send, push, trick or force minors to access online information that contains content that is harmful or may affect the physical and mental health of minors.
Article 26: No organization or individual may use the Internet to humiliate, slander, threaten or maliciously damage the image of minors through the use of text, pictures, audio and video, and other forms of cyber bullying.
Internet product and service providers should establish and improve early warning, prevention, identification, monitoring and disposal mechanisms for cyberbullying, set up functions and channels to facilitate minors and their guardians to save records of cyberbullying and exercise notification rights, and provide facilities to facilitate minors to set up Internet bullying information protection options include blocking unfamiliar users, the visibility of the information posted by the person, prohibiting reprinting or commenting on the information posted by the person, and prohibiting sending information to the person.
Internet product and service providers should establish and improve cyberbullying information signature databases, optimize relevant algorithm models, and use artificial intelligence, big data and other technical means combined with manual review to strengthen the identification and monitoring of cyberbullying information.
Article 27: No organization or individual may organize, instigate, coerce, induce, deceive, or help minors to commit illegal and criminal acts through the Internet in the form of text, pictures, audio and video, etc.
Article 28 Providers of online education network products and services that target minors shall provide corresponding products based on the physical and mental development characteristics and cognitive abilities of minors at different ages in accordance with laws, administrative regulations and relevant national regulations. and service.
Article 29 Network product and service providers shall strengthen the management of information released by users and take effective measures to prevent the production, copying, publishing, and dissemination of information that violates Articles 22, 24, and 25 of these Regulations. Information stipulated in Article 26, Paragraph 1 of Article 26, and Article 27. If any information that violates the provisions of the above provisions is discovered, the transmission of relevant information shall be stopped immediately, and disposal measures such as deletion, blocking, and disconnection shall be adopted to prevent the information from being transmitted. Proliferate, keep relevant records, report to cybersecurity, public security and other departments, and take warnings, limit functions, suspend services, close accounts and other disposal measures for users who produce, copy, publish, and disseminate the above information.
If network product and service providers discover that users publish or disseminate information specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 of these Regulations without prominent prompts, they shall provide prompts or notify users to provide prompts; if no prompts are given, the information shall not be transmitted.
Article 30 The national cyberspace, press and publication, and film departments and the education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, radio and television departments of the State Council discover violations of Articles 22, 24, and 25 of these Regulations , the information specified in Article 26, Paragraph 1, and Article 27, or if it is found that the information specified in Article 23, Paragraph 1 of these Regulations has not been prominently displayed, network product and service providers shall be required to comply with The provisions of Article 29 of these Regulations shall be dealt with; for the above-mentioned information originating from overseas, relevant agencies shall be notified in accordance with the law to take technical measures and other necessary measures to block the spread.
Chapter 4 Personal Information Network Protection
Article 31: Network service providers that provide information release, instant messaging and other services to minors shall require minors or their guardians to provide minors’ true identity information in accordance with the law. If a minor or his guardian does not provide the minor’s true identity information, the network service provider shall not provide relevant services to the minor.
Online live broadcast service providers should establish a dynamic verification mechanism for the real identity information of online live broadcast publishers, and shall not provide online live broadcast publishing services to minor users who do not meet the circumstances prescribed by law.
Article 32 Personal information processors shall strictly abide by the provisions of the national cybersecurity and informatization department and relevant departments on the scope of necessary personal information for network products and services, and shall not force minors or their guardians to consent to non-essential personal information processing, and shall not Because minors or their guardians do not agree to the processing of non-essential personal information of minors or withdraw their consent, minors are refused to use its basic functional services.
Article 33 Guardians of minors should educate and guide minors to enhance their awareness and ability to protect personal information, master the scope of personal information, and understand the security risks of personal information, and guide minors to exercise their rights to review and process personal information in personal information processing activities. Rights to copy, correct, supplement, delete, etc. to protect the rights and interests of minors’ personal information.
Article 34 If a minor or his guardian requests to access, copy, correct, supplement, or delete the minor’s personal information in accordance with the law, the personal information processor shall comply with the following provisions:
(1) Provide convenient methods and channels to support minors or their guardians in accessing the types and quantities of minors’ personal information, and shall not restrict the reasonable requests of minors or their guardians;
(2) Provide convenient functions to support minors or their guardians in copying, correcting, supplementing, and deleting minors’ personal information, and shall not set unreasonable conditions;
(3) Promptly accept and process minors’ or their guardians’ applications for accessing, copying, correcting, supplementing, or deleting minors’ personal information. If the minors’ or their guardians’ requests to exercise their rights are rejected, the applicant shall be notified in writing and explained. reason.
If a minor or his guardian makes a request in accordance with the law to transfer the minor’s personal information and meets the conditions specified by the national cybersecurity and informatization department, the personal information processor shall provide a way for the transfer.
Article 35 If a minor’s personal information is leaked, tampered with, or lost, the personal information processor shall immediately activate an emergency plan for personal information security incidents, take remedial measures, report to the cybersecurity and informatization department in a timely manner, and comply with the national Relevant regulations will inform affected minors and their guardians of the incident through emails, letters, phone calls, push information, etc.
If it is difficult for personal information processors to notify each case one by one, they should promptly release relevant warning information in a reasonable and effective manner, unless otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 36: Personal information processors should use the principle of minimum authorization for their staff, strictly set information access rights, and control the scope of minors’ personal information. When staff access minors’ personal information, they must obtain approval from the relevant person in charge or their authorized managers, record the access situation, and take technical measures to avoid illegal processing of minors’ personal information.
Article 37 Personal information processors shall conduct compliance audits on their own or entrust professional institutions to comply with laws and administrative regulations when handling minors’ personal information every year, and report the audit results to cybersecurity and other departments in a timely manner.
Article 38: If network service providers discover that private information of minors or personal information released by minors through the Internet involves private information, they should promptly prompt them and take necessary protective measures such as stopping transmission to prevent the spread of information.
If an Internet service provider discovers that a minor may be harmed through the private information of a minor, it shall immediately take necessary measures to preserve relevant records and report it to the public security organ.
Chapter 5 Prevention and Treatment of Internet Addiction
Article 39: Prevention and intervention of minors’ addiction to the Internet must comply with laws, administrative regulations and relevant national regulations.
Education, health, market supervision and management and other departments shall supervise and manage institutions engaged in prevention and intervention activities for minors’ Internet addiction in accordance with their respective responsibilities.
Article 40: Schools should strengthen guidance and training for teachers, and improve teachers’ ability to identify and intervene early on when underage students are addicted to the Internet. For underage students who have a tendency to become addicted to the Internet, schools should promptly inform their guardians and jointly educate and guide the underage students to help them return to normal study and life.
Article 41 Guardians of minors should guide minors to use the Internet safely and rationally, pay attention to minors’ Internet access and related physiological conditions, psychological conditions, and behavioral habits, and prevent minors from coming into contact with information that is harmful or may affect their physical and mental health. Network information, reasonably arrange the time for minors to use the Internet, and prevent and intervene in minors’ addiction to the Internet.
Article 42 Internet product and service providers shall establish and improve anti-addiction systems, shall not provide minors with products and services that induce addiction, promptly modify content, functions and rules that may cause minors to become addicted, and report to minors every year Publicize anti-addiction work status to the public and accept social supervision.
Article 43: Internet service providers such as online games, online live broadcasts, online audio and video, and online social networking should be based on the characteristics of minors of different ages using their services and adhere to the principles of integration, friendliness, practicality, and effectiveness. The human mode provides corresponding services in accordance with relevant national regulations and standards in terms of usage period, duration, functions and content, and provides time management, authority management, consumption management and other functions for guardians to perform their guardianship duties in an eye-catching and convenient way.
Article 44 Internet service providers such as online games, online live broadcasts, online audio and video, and online social networking shall take measures to reasonably limit the single consumption amount and single-day cumulative consumption amount of minors of different ages when using their services. , shall not provide minors with paid services that are inconsistent with their civil capacity.
Article 45 Internet service providers such as online games, online live broadcasts, online audio and video, and online social networking shall take measures to prevent and resist undesirable value tendencies such as traffic supremacy, and shall not set up systems to raise funds through support, vote for rankings, or control reviews through volume manipulation Online communities, groups, and topics with themes such as online forums, etc. shall not induce minors to participate in online activities such as support fund-raising, voting, and volume control and review, and their users shall be prevented and stopped from inducing minors to commit the above behaviors.
Article 46: Online game service providers shall verify the true identity information of minor users through necessary means such as a unified electronic identity authentication system for minors’ online games.
Online product and service providers are not allowed to provide game account rental and sales services to minors.
Article 47: Online game service providers should establish and improve game rules to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, and prevent minors from being exposed to game content or game functions that may affect their physical and mental health.
Online game service providers should implement age-appropriate reminder requirements, classify game products according to the physical and mental development characteristics and cognitive abilities of minors at different ages, and evaluate the type, content, function and other factors of game products, and clarify the appropriate categories of game products. The age group of minor users will be clearly indicated on the user download, registration, login interface, etc.
Article 48 Press and publication, education, health, culture and tourism, radio and television, Internet information and other departments shall regularly carry out publicity and education on preventing minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, and supervise and inspect the performance of Internet product and service providers to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the Internet. Regarding the situation of addiction to the Internet, we will guide families, schools, and social organizations to cooperate with each other and adopt scientific and reasonable methods to prevent and intervene against minors’ addiction to the Internet.
The national press and publication department takes the lead in organizing the prevention and control of minors’ addiction to online games, and works with relevant departments to formulate management regulations on the time period, duration, consumption limit and other management regulations for providing online game services to minors.
Health, education and other departments shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, guide relevant medical and health institutions, colleges and universities, etc., to carry out basic research and applied research on mental disorders and psychological behavioral problems caused by minors’ addiction to the Internet, as well as screening assessment, diagnosis, prevention, intervention and other applied research.
Article 49: It is strictly prohibited for any organization or individual to interfere with minors’ addiction to the Internet or infringe upon minors’ legitimate rights and interests through abuse, coercion, or other means that infringe upon minors’ physical and mental health.
Chapter 6 Legal Liability
Article 50 If local people’s governments at all levels and relevant departments at or above the county level violate the provisions of these Regulations and fail to perform their duties of protecting minors online, their superior authorities shall order them to make corrections; if they refuse to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, the responsible leaders shall be punished. Personnel and those directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the law.
Article 51 If schools, communities, libraries, cultural centers, youth palaces, etc. violate the provisions of these regulations and fail to perform their duties of protecting minors online, the education, culture and tourism departments shall order them to make corrections in accordance with their respective duties; if they refuse to make corrections or the circumstances In serious cases, the responsible leaders and directly responsible personnel will be punished in accordance with the law.
Article 52 If the guardian of a minor fails to perform the guardianship duties stipulated in these regulations or infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of the minor, the residents’ committee, village committee, women’s federation of the minor’s residence, the guardian’s unit, primary and secondary schools, Kindergartens and other units that have close contact with minors shall criticize and educate them, advise and stop them, and urge them to receive family education guidance in accordance with the law.
Article 53 Anyone who violates the provisions of Article 7, Paragraph 3 of Article 19, and Paragraph 2 of Article 38 of these Regulations shall be punished by the Internet information, press and publication, film, education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and Tourism, market supervision and management, radio and television and other departments shall order corrections according to their respective duties; if they refuse to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, they shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined 10,000 yuan. A fine of more than 100,000 yuan is imposed.
Article 54 Anyone who violates the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 20 of these Regulations shall be ordered to make corrections, given a warning, and have illegal gains confiscated by the Internet information, press and publication, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, radio and television and other departments in accordance with their respective duties; Those who refuse to make corrections shall be fined not more than 1 million yuan, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
Anyone who violates the provisions of Item 1 and Item 5 of Paragraph 1 of Article 20 of these Regulations, if the circumstances are serious, shall be ordered to make corrections by the Internet information, press and publication, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, radio and television and other departments at or above the provincial level in accordance with their respective duties. , confiscate the illegal gains and impose a fine of less than 50 million yuan or less than 5% of the previous year’s turnover, and may order the suspension of relevant business or suspend business for rectification, notify the relevant departments to revoke the relevant business license or revoke the business license in accordance with the law; for direct The person in charge and other directly responsible persons shall be fined not less than RMB 100,000 but not more than RMB 1 million, and may be prohibited from serving as directors, supervisors, senior managers and persons in charge of the protection of minors within a certain period of time.
Article 55 Violations of the provisions of Articles 24 and 25 of these Regulations shall be handled by the Internet information, press and publication, film, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, market supervision and management, radio and television and other departments according to their respective duties. Order to make corrections within a time limit, give a warning, confiscate illegal gains, and may impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan; if the party refuses to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend relevant business, suspend production and business, or revoke relevant business licenses and business licenses, and the illegal gains shall be 1 million yuan If the amount exceeds 1 million yuan, a fine of not less than 1 time but not more than 10 times of the illegal income shall be imposed. If there is no illegal income or the illegal income is less than 1 million yuan, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan shall be imposed.
Article 56 Violation of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 26, Article 28, Paragraph 1 of Article 29, Paragraph 2 of Article 31 and Article 36 of these Regulations , Paragraph 1 of Article 38, Articles 42 to 45, Paragraph 2 of Article 46, and Article 47 shall be governed by Internet information, press and publication, film, education, Telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, radio and television and other departments shall order corrections, give warnings, and confiscate illegal gains in accordance with their respective duties. If the illegal gains exceed 1 million yuan, a fine of not less than 1 time but not more than 10 times of the illegal gains shall be imposed. If there are no illegal gains or illegal gains, If the income is less than 1 million yuan, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan shall be imposed. The person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; if the person refuses to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, he shall be fined not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan. It can be ordered to suspend relevant business, suspend business for rectification, close the website, revoke the relevant business license or revoke the business license.
Article 57 If an Internet product and service provider violates the provisions of these regulations and is punished by shutting down the website, revoking the relevant business license or revoking the business license, it shall not re-apply for the relevant license within 5 years. The person in charge and other directly responsible persons shall not Personnel shall not engage in similar network products and services within 5 years.
Article 58 Anyone who violates the provisions of these Regulations, infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors and causes damage to minors shall bear civil liability in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a violation of public security management, he shall be punished by public security management in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, he shall be investigated for criminal prosecution in accordance with the law. responsibility.
Chapter 7 Supplementary Provisions
Article 59 The term «intelligent terminal products» as mentioned in these regulations refers to network terminal products such as mobile phones and computers that can be connected to the network, have operating systems, and can be installed by users themselves with application software.
Article 60: These regulations will come into effect on January 1, 2024.