인터넷 뉴스 긴급심의 규제기관 등에 관한 검토

If the Internet news regulatory agency is changed from the Press Arbitration Commission to the Korea Communications Standards Commission, the Korea Communications Standards Commission can initiate communication deliberation through its own recognition or public reporting, and can exercise strong regulatory measures such as correction requests such as deletion or blocking of access to the information, refusal, suspension, and restriction of processing the information, and criminal punishment. Therefore, this paper presents the problems of the Korea Communications Standards Commission's urgent review of Internet news and its improvement measures as follows. First, in order to improve the problem of the biased composition of media regulatory agencies, political influence on regulatory agencies should be excluded or weakened by expanding and dispersing the recommendation and appointment authority of members of the Korea Communications Commission and deliberation members of the Korea Communications Standards Commission to the judiciary, broadcasting and Internet operators, civic groups, etc. It is necessary to strengthen the qualification requirements and prevent abuse of the dismissal authority by clearly defining the reasons for dismissal in order to improve the problem of not exercising or delaying the recommendation and appointment authority of members of the regulatory agency. If such authority is not exercised within the legal deadline, a new legal deadline shall be established, and regulations shall be prepared to consider that it has already been appointed and commissioned. On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the qualification requirements and clearly stipulate the reasons for dismissal by law in order to appoint or commission experts who are not political figures to regulatory agencies. Second, in order to improve the lack of a provision for impeachment opinions on four standing members, including the chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, and the lack of effectiveness in securing independence in the performance of broadcasting and Internet content deliberations, even though the Korea Communications Commission is a consensus-based regulatory body, there are only provisions for impeachment decisions against the chairman, so the remaining four standing members should be newly established to strengthen their responsibility for decision-making. In addition, new regulations should be established to punish those who violate external unfair instructions or anti-interference regulations in the performance of broadcasting content and Internet content deliberation duties to ensure their effectiveness. Third, the Korea Communications Standards Commission should stop urgently deliberating on Internet news in order to improve the problem that the ground law on Internet news regulation is not clear, and specific standards and their effects should be preemptively prepared after sufficiently going through the process of forming a social consensus on strengthening Internet news regulations.