The legal responsibilities to be borne are different according to different situations. They are mainly civil liability, administrative liability and criminal liability. They are determined based on factors such as the behavior of the person who publishes false information and the impact caused.

I saw a video in the past few days. A netizen whose IP belongs to Yunnan posted a video, saying that he encountered three wild tigers fighting while going up the mountain to collect fungi. The caption "There is a kind of life called Yunnan Mountain King who no longer dares to pick up bacteria..." The video triggered heated discussions among netizens.

I also saw this video a few days ago. I thought it was real. I saw netizens in the comment area jokingly saying, "Brother, you're probably not on a tree from this angle." It’s not safe to go up there, tigers can climb trees.” I thought it was quite funny, but unexpectedly it overturned.

After verification, the relevant network security brigade staff in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province found that this video was actually shot in August 2019, and the location was not in the wild, but at the Yunnan Wildlife Park, confirming that the video was shot in August 2019. The publisher was publishing false information, disrupting public order and causing adverse social impact, and was detained administratively for 5 days.

Many people now publish some false information or videos online to attract attention in order to gain traffic. However, this behavior is illegal and may require legal liability. Let’s learn about the relevant knowledge. Right~

?Civil Liability

Spreading rumors online infringes upon the reputation rights of others or the business reputation of legal persons or other organizations. According to the "Civil Code" and other legal provisions, spreading rumors or spreading rumors The person needs to stop the infringement, restore his reputation, eliminate the impact, apologize, and may also need to compensate for certain mental losses. Spreading rumors feels good for a while, but being blamed makes me cry. Administrative liability

Administrative liability is slightly more serious than civil liability. Compensation + apology for civil liability may be able to solve the problem, but those with administrative liability have to go to the police station to "experience it" because the rumors spread are disturbing Violating public order, or defaming others and causing a certain impact. Although it does not constitute a crime, it has violated laws and regulations.

According to Article 25 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Public Security Administration Punishments": Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan. Fine; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan:

① Spread rumors, lie about dangerous situations, epidemics, police situations, or deliberately disrupt public order in other ways; < /p>

② Disrupting public order by releasing false explosive, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens and other dangerous substances;

③ Threatening to commit arson, explosion, or release Dangerous substances disrupt public order.

These false information may cause panic among the masses and cause unnecessary trouble. Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, relevant laws and regulations can be formulated to restrain everyone. Like the video posted by a Yunnanese netizen mentioned above, it is very likely that uninformed people will think that Yunnan is very dangerous. Tigers are easy to appear in the mountains, and local people may not dare to go up the mountains. Criminal liability

If the false information released constitutes a crime, you will further need to bear criminal liability, such as inciting national unity and national defense interests online, or fabricating false dangers, epidemics, etc., and using the Internet to spread them , seriously disrupting social order and causing panic in society, according to Article 291-1 of the Criminal Law, the maximum sentence is not less than three years but not more than seven years in prison.

Whoever fabricates false information, or knowingly spreads false information on information networks, or organizes or instructs people to spread it on information networks, causing trouble and causing serious disorder in public order, In accordance with the provisions of Article 293, Paragraph 1, Item (4) of the Criminal Law, he was convicted and punished for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

In general, no matter what legal responsibilities you have to bear, it is a matter of harming others and not benefiting yourself. Don’t publish some false information online in a moment of enthusiasm. After all, the Internet now spreads very fast, and some The development of the situation is uncontrollable. A casual search on the Internet will turn up a lot of cases of people being punished for publishing false information, which shows that many people have hit the bottom line of the law.

However, we must be careful when using electronic social software every day. We cannot blindly follow the trend and forward some unconfirmed news. If we find that someone is spreading rumors, it is best to retain evidence, such as Send screenshots, links, etc. of content for alarm processing.

The Internet is not a place outside the law. You cannot hide behind a screen and type on the keyboard and "do whatever you want." Even if you are speaking out online, you must abide by laws and regulations and be cautious in your words and deeds.