Legal issues in the field of digital technologies in Russia

Abstract

The article examines the negative factors of the impact of the Internet on the moral development of minors (that is, persons under the age of eighteen), the legal aspects of countering these factors. The types of information on the Internet are analyzed, which can harm children to their moral development. In addition to the study of laws that are exclusively regulatory in nature of these issues, the main emphasis is placed on the analysis of the norms of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provide for legal liability for acts that are capable for causing harm to minor Internet users. Some problems of classification of these administrative offenses and crimes are considered, the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is given, the official statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are analyzed with ocular demonstration. At the end of the study, the authors put forward their own conclusions regarding the legal aspects of the protection of minor Internet users, and proposals are also made for amending some norms of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.