The more Internet is used for lawful economical and social communication, the more space appears for possible illegal activities.
The freedom of speech in the Internet is a very important condition to maintain the democracy. Despite this, freedom of speech can be limited in behalf of the other essential human rights.
One of the most important reasons to control the freedom of speech in the Internet - is to protect children and minorities from the illegal and harmful content.
It is essential to stop child pornography , to prevent the society from xenophobic and racist hatreds spreading on the Internet.
The illegal spreading of spam, which contain illegal commercial information about drugs, alcohol and tobacco is also the target of regulation and control.
While researching the giving topics, we came to the conclusion that legal regulation of Internet content has features of globalism and unification. This tendency comes out of the specific architecture of the Internet, that allows the users of the Internet ignore the borders of the national states. We raised a question: do national states have to comply to the global nature of the Internet and to regulate Internet using international legal standards and sacrify their own national tendencies of regulation?
We noticed that it is impossible to expect the legal regulation of the Internet will become united because of the cultural, economical, political and social divergences among the national countries.
As we admitted... [to full text] / The more Internet is used for lawful economical and social communication, the more space appears for possible illegal activities. The freedom of speech in the Internet is a very important condition to maintain the democracy. Despite this, freedom of speech can be limited in behalf of the other essential human rights. One of the most important reasons to control the freedom of speech in the Internet - is to protect children and minorities from the illegal and harmful content. It is essential to stop child pornography , to prevent the society from xenophobic and racist hatreds spreading on the Internet.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20050518_111840-44798 |
Date | 18 May 2005 |
Creators | Augustinaitytė, Milda |
Contributors | Štitilis, Darius, Kriščiūnas, Rolandas, Augustinaitis, Arūnas, Rudzkienė, Vitalija, Kiškis, Mindaugas, Rotomskis, Irmantas, Petrauskas, Rimantas, Norvaiša, Saulius, Keras, Antanas, Kučinskienė, Rasa, Mykolas Romeris University |
Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Mykolas Romeris University |
Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
Language | Lithuanian |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Master thesis |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20050518_111840-44798 |
Rights | Unrestricted |
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