● Some website platforms ignore social responsibilities, repeatedly use online classes to promote online games and make friends, and even spread pornographic, violent and fraudulent information, which endangers the physical and mental health of students, especially minors.
● In order to effectively solve the outstanding problems of online class platforms involving minors, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of minors, and promote the standardized and orderly development of online class platforms, the Central Network Information Office and the Ministry of Education launched a two-month special rectification of online class platforms involving minors.
● Relevant regulatory authorities should clarify their functions and responsibilities on the basis of full investigation, improve laws and regulations, achieve precise and joint law enforcement, and strengthen supervision over online platforms and advertisers.
Recently, in order to effectively solve the outstanding problems of online class platforms involving minors, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of minors, and promote the standardized and orderly development of online class platforms, the Central Network Information Office and the Ministry of Education launched a two-month special rectification of online class platforms involving minors.
This special rectification will focus on the outstanding problems that netizens have strongly reflected. For example, to strengthen the ecological management around the online course page, there must be no content that harms the physical and mental health of minors; Do not use pop-ups to induce clicking on pages that are not suitable for minors; Do not push advertising information unrelated to learning; Do not use online courses of a public nature to seek commercial interests.
During the special rectification period, what is the current situation of various website platforms that offer online courses for minors? Recently, the "Rule of Law Daily" reporter launched an investigation on this.
The adolescent model exists in name only
The platform still pushes bad information.
At present, online class platforms commonly used by minors can be divided into two categories, one is an online cloud classroom teaching platform specially developed by the government or schools, and the other is an online class platform developed by social networking sites.
On August 19th, when the reporter of Rule of Law Daily logged into an online course platform, he saw that the homepage of the platform was divided into three parts, with dynamic public service advertisements at the top, such as "We are in action to fight the epidemic", which introduced that the platform provided rich courses for students during the epidemic prevention and control period, so that students could study independently at home. In the middle is the schedule of live courses from grade 1 to grade 12. Click it to enter the online course content of any grade. At the bottom are special teacher classes, famous master classes and so on.
In the process of browsing, I didn’t see the pop-up window, nor did I see the advertising information unrelated to learning. Subsequently, the reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" logged into another video website, and no content unsuitable for teenagers was found in the learning module. On another video website, some modules in the learning channel have been closed.
The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" downloaded the software of an education and training institution. After opening it, a notice of special rectification of minors’ summer network environment appeared. Click the link at the bottom to view the rectification results. In the publicity of the rectification results released by it, it is said that the bad content in the animation, live broadcast, short video, forum and online learning sections on the platform has been investigated and cleaned up, and 154 illegal avatars and 362 illegal nicknames have been handled. In addition, nearly 200,000 pieces of sensitive information were filtered out in live chat only.
After the rectification of this online class platform, a telephone number and email address for minors to report bad content were also set up. The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" consulted relevant issues as parents of students. A customer service teacher said that the problematic courses have been handled by relevant personnel. If other problems are found, they can also be contacted for registration.
In the process of logging in to some platforms with online courses, the reporter of Rule of Law Daily found that some online courses platforms launched the children/teenagers mode after rectification. In the teenagers mode, all content presented to users was filtered through the platform, and routine operations such as recharging, rewarding and commenting could not be carried out.
Some softwares directly add children’s/teenagers’ accounts in the teenager mode through a separate password setting, and the content browsed by using this account is limited. Some online class platforms also have a "time lock" function in the youth mode. The default time for using the software is 40 minutes. If the daily use time exceeds the default time, you need to enter a password with independent functions before using it.
The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" downloaded some popular software with adolescent mode to try. After setting the password for the teen mode, these platforms will require users to fill in the child’s date of birth, and individual platforms will also require users to fill in the gender. After setting up the account, the platform will provide some content categories for users to choose, and only after selecting them can the software be officially used in the youth mode. There are also some platforms that do not need to set a youth account, and directly set a password to control the opening of the youth mode.
However, the reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" found that it is only necessary to set a separate password to turn on and off the youth mode. In the case of mastering the password, the holder of the mobile phone can still turn on or off the youth mode at will. Some parents believe that this makes the youth model useless in the eyes of teenagers who have mastered the password.
According to parents’ introduction, the reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" downloaded and installed a popular social software. In the setting options of one software, the teenager mode of the software was opened by setting an independent password. Continuing to operate, the reporter of the Rule of Law Daily found that although it is impossible to carry out the same routine operations as ordinary accounts, the accounts set by this software in the youth mode can still be used to vote for various lists, and also receive news or information pushed by the platform that has nothing to do with learning.
Xiao Jia (pseudonym), a middle school student in Dongcheng District, Beijing, told the reporter of Rule of Law Daily: "The youth model can indeed filter out some bad information, but for me, it is just for ‘ Love beans ’ (Idol) is just for voting. "
Download the software, register the account, set up and start the youth mode for yourself, which is Xiao Jia and the normal online life of some minors in idolize. The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" registered a youth account on this online class platform according to Xiao Jia’s guidance. At the end of the interview, he received a news push from the platform, "××××× was exposed to derailment, and private photos flowed out".
Pop-up advertisement in online course browser
Language violence in interactive comment area
Pop-up advertisements are often seen when using a browser to surf the Internet, which is the trouble that Li Xuan (a pseudonym), a middle school student in Xicheng District, Beijing, has encountered.
During Li Xuan’s online class, pop-up advertisements will pop up from the left side of the webpage from time to time, and the contents of the advertisements are quite "rich". Not only are there game advertisements, but Li Xuan even saw hair growth advertisements.
Li Xuan described the general scene of the game advertisement to the reporter of the Rule of Law Daily: "Either there are dragons and monsters on the road in Shi Zhuan, or there are wild boars on the wasteland, and then a man took a knife and cut it several times ‘ Explosion ’ Good game equipment. "
Li Xuan feels a little annoyed with this kind of grandiose advertisement that often pops up, but she can’t completely prohibit the advertisement from popping up through setting. To this end, he specially changed another browser without advertisements. However, the new browser sometimes gets stuck. In the end, Li Xuan had to switch back to the original browser.
The reporter of Rule of Law Daily downloaded this browser software and found that after selecting the page of interest, the browser will push news and information according to the user’s interest, but even if the option of "entertainment" is avoided, the system will still push some sensational "news".
Zhao Yu (pseudonym), a student from a middle school in Xicheng District, Beijing, used an online class platform to attend a training class. According to her introduction: "This online class platform can turn on the camera and microphone, and the system will remind you when there is a class. When there is a class, the teacher can ask questions. If the students answer correctly, the teacher can reward the students and send a small trophy or something. We can read documents, PPT and pictures on it, and it is also convenient for teachers to write on the blackboard, which can be saved in the form of pictures. After the whole course, you can also watch the playback. "
In addition, Zhao Yu told the reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" that there are also some problems in the interactive message of the school online class platform. "Some students will talk nonsense in the comment area." Zhao Yu said, "For example, if a teacher asks a classmate to answer a question, and that classmate answers wrong, someone will make fun of the wrong answer in the comment area."
This made Zhao Yu very flustered when answering questions, because she was worried about the cynicism of her classmates, and sometimes even if she knew the answer, she dared not answer it easily. "Why doesn’t the online class platform have the function of silence?" In this regard, Zhao Yu is very confused.
Gao Tiantian (pseudonym), a primary school student in Tongzhou District, Beijing, saw the teacher advertising in the live class.
After starting school this fall, Gao Tiantian will be in the sixth grade. During this summer vacation, her parents signed up Gao Tiantian for an online course in an educational institution. At about 9 o’clock, Gao Tiantian’s math class began. The course lasted about two hours, with three breaks in the middle. During the break, in order to enhance children’s interest, the teacher will hold his pet cat in front of the live camera to interact with the students, and sometimes recommend other courses for sale to the students.
"Teachers often recommend some classes." Gao Tiantian is no stranger to this. Ms. Wang, her mother, was disgusted with this. She told the reporter of the Rule of Law Daily: "The teacher’s job is to attend classes. I feel very annoyed to recommend other courses for sale in class. What is the difference between this and product placement?"
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