Japan prepares to manage the Internet

The Japanese government is pushing legislation to control online file sharing, Web content and mobile phone access.

The Inquirer technology website (UK) quotes from Gyaku blog that the Japanese government intends to control all content - including online personal blogs (blogs), Web pages and online newspapers as well as limits. Web content on mobile phones. Online file sharing is also a goal of law making this time and the committees met in December to discuss how to best incorporate various issues in the legislature.

According to the gyaku.jp Web site (gyaku is a non-profit communication project in Japan), with a bit of fuss in local and foreign newspapers, in December 2007, the Japanese government made moves. It is about expanding the adjustment to online communications and information exchange within the national borders. In a series of meetings that were less attractive to the mainstream media, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology promoted the promulgation of regulations in three fields. The main area of ​​online communication: Web content, mobile phone access and file sharing.

On December 6, 2007, in a final report compiled by the Somusho research team after a temporary report was drafted in early 2007, the Japanese government intends to adjust the online content through consolidate existing laws such as Broadcast Law (Broadcast Law) and Telecommunications Business Law. The regulation is intended to target all Web content, including online variants of traditional media such as paper and television, radio and, at the same time, to manage content created by Internet users such as blogs and Web page, collectively referred to as "open communication".

Just a few days after announcing the report on December 6, through Somusho, the Japanese Government on December 10, 2007 asked NTT Docomo, KDDI, Softbank and Willcom mobile companies to begin filtering completely. Web content for mobile phones for users under 18 years old. This move comes when Japan's mobile market is saturated and the number of high school students, even primary mobile phones, is increasing. This policy partly reacts to parents' worries and fears about dating sites negatively impacting their children.

Regarding online file sharing, authorities and organizations promote this issue to prohibit downloading copyrighted content for personal use, a type of file transfer previously permitted under Article 30 of the Law Japanese rights.