LEGAL NATURE OF THE INTERNET: REGULATORY ISSUES

Authors

  • Anastasia Vyacheslavovna Khuzhina Author

Abstract

The author analyzes the process of historical foundation of the Internet as an essential
mean of communication of informational society, proves relativeness of legal nature of the
Internet with the necessity of searching a suitable instrument of Internet regulation. Principal
concern is focused on current views on the Internet regulation in frameworks of international
and national legal systems. The author dwells on two basic paradigms, currently appeared
and describing interrelation and capability of the Internet to influence a legal system
and social relations: “techno-optimism” and “techno-realism”. The analysis of an approach
to the Internet regulation in the Russian segment in terms of elaborated reports of WGIG
and draft concept “Strategy of the Internet development in the Russian Federation up to
2020” has made it possible to conclude on ill-conceived idea of building the Internet-space
where the state would be an equal partner.

Author Biography

  • Anastasia Vyacheslavovna Khuzhina

    External doctorate student of Constitutional and Administrative
    Law Department, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015): Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series Law.

Section

Problems and Questions on Constitutional and Administrative Law