英文摘要 |
In Web 2. 0, the question who should be responsible for the damage caused by criminal internet information has become the key issue of criminal law in the digital age. To better understand the culpability of Internet service providers, this essay tries to interpret the clauses of criminal liability in Amendment (IX) to the Criminal Law of the PRC and clarify the internal logic according to the principles of network technology communication. First of all, internet service providers who send messages for themselves shall be convicted and punished according to Article 287 A. Meanwhile, whoever provides any assistance for the mentioned crime shall be convicted and punished according to Article 287 B, which could take full advantage of Article 287 Band diminish the chaotic situations of concurrence. Furthermore, Article 287 Bshall be based on general liability principles rather than neutral-assistance theory as the providers are convicted because of others’ behaviors, which means the mens rea--provider’s special knowledge of the transmission of criminal information--has become the only and essential foundation of culpability. Thus, in order to decrease the over-expansion of criminal liability, we shall interpret the subjective aspect of the perpetrator restrictively. Ultimately, to identify the guarantor status and omission culpability of internet service providers rationally, the dogmatic resources of guarantor status of danger supervision, combined with the characteristics of internet technology communication, shall become the starting point. |