Negative content in the Internet information and telecommunications network: problems of definition and classification

Abstract

The article is devoted to problems of responsibility for placing negative and illegal information on the Internet. The author raises issues of legal definition of the information content of the site on the Internet, as well as the list of illegal information. On the example of foreign experience the author justifies the need of using the notion “content” in relation to information placed on the Internet (site, blog, forum, social networks, etc.). Based on the analysis of foreign and domestic legislation in the field of computer information and existing classifications of the main types of «content», the author suggests classification of “contents”, and also offers lists of information that can be referred as “illegal content”.