Constitutional and legal limitations on freedom of thought and expression on the Internet: experience in law enforcement

Abstract

In the article considers the issue of observing the constitutional balance between the freedom of thought and speech and the permissible limits of its use on the Internet. A number of judicial acts were examined that examined the protection of rights and freedoms on the Internet. Additional principles of constitutional and legal restrictions, free distribution of information on the Internet, not directly indicated in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but arising from its meaning, are highlighted. The authors examined the main areas of violation of rights and freedoms through the use of the right to freedom of thought. In the presented article, the authors intend to consider some aspects of constitutional and legal restrictions in the implementation of the right to freedom of speech and thought on the Internet as a constitutional balance. The methodological basis of the study is based on the application of various general scientific techniques and methods of scientific knowledge (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction), as well as private scientific methods - formal legal, comparative legal and interpretative.