The Broadcasting Media Communications Committee (BMCC) is strengthening its response to false information and online illegal activities to create a safe broadcasting media communication environment. Additionally, to enhance media sovereignty, it is promoting the establishment of a rational public broadcasting system, strengthening the responsibility of broadcasting reviews, and ensuring media access rights. On the 12th, BMCC reported its major achievements and future key tasks at the Sejong Government Convention Center.
BMCC is pursuing various improvements, including legal and institutional reforms, strengthening public-private cooperation systems, and user education, to minimize the social harm caused by online false information. It is promoting a self-regulation recommendation agreement to strengthen the responsibilities of platform operators for quick reception and processing, and expanding the consultative body. Additionally, it supports the legislation of amendments to the Information and Communications Network Act to activate fact-checking and supports the training and activities of private fact-checkers.
BMCC is promoting the enactment of special laws to enhance the responsibility of operators for illegal and harmful information distributed online. This includes preventing over-dependence on services by children and adolescents, sanctioning service abusers, mandating the management and blocking of illegal information, and disclosing information search and exposure criteria. It also aims to enhance the transparency of algorithm-based recommendation services and ensure user choice by specifying them in terms and institutionalizing transparency reporting obligations.
BMCC is implementing a transmission qualification certification system that allows only operators with the capability to prevent illegal spam to enter the bulk SMS transmission market. It is pursuing the revision of subordinate laws and notices under the Information and Communications Network Act to implement fines and confiscation regulations related to illegal spam, and strengthening the blocking of illegal information distributed using new technologies such as AI. Additionally, it is enhancing monitoring by strengthening the obligation to prevent the distribution of illegal recordings, building a deepfake identification system, and improving the legal system to request deletion or blocking from operators when illegal information is clearly identified.