Online Rally as a Way of Exercising Political Rights

The Internent as the information and telecommunication network has an increasing impact on the life of modern people, and digitalization affects almost all legal relations existing at the moment. The political rights of citizens that are increasingly being exercised through the Internet, have not become an exception. In 2020, the conduct of demonstrations and various public events on the Internet no longer surprises anyone. This method is becoming a more and more popular and mass method of expressing public opinion that attracts increased attention. The paper examines existing online forms of protest actions, explores their correlation with the current legislation, as well as the possibility of their normative regulation. The author analyzes and studies a new legal concept an online meeting, and also suggests options for its legal consolidation. The author comes to the conclusion about the need to expand the concept of public event and to include new forms of mass events in regulatory acts.

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