Administrative-Law Restrictions in the Communications Sector as Means of Counteracting the Dissemination of Unlawful Content on the Internet: Toward Framing the Issue

One of the consequences of the emergence and development of the information society has been the increased capacity to exert negative informational and psychological influence on the individual psyche and public consciousness of Internet users. In circumstances where information intermediaries fail to comply with the requirements of Russian legislation restricting access to unlawful content, administrative-law restrictions in the communications sector — specifically, the «modification of telecommunications message routing» — have been imposed upon them. The purpose of this article is to determine the legal grounds, procedure, and appropriateness of applying this type of restriction. The principal finding is that communications-sector restrictions applied to information intermediaries result in limiting users’ access not only to destructive informational resources but also to beneficial information, thereby affecting the extent to which the right to freely seek, receive, and access information, the dissemination of which is not prohibited by law, is realized.

1. Volovich V. F. Pravovaya sushchnost gosudarstvennogo upravleniya svyazyu v sovremennyy period // Aktualnye voprosy gosudarstva i prava v sovremennyy period: sbornik statey. — Tomsk, 1994. — S. 78–80.

2. Kaplunov A. I., Lebedeva O. O. Proizvodstvo po primeneniyu otdelnykh prinuditelnykh mer administrativnogo preduprezhdeniya kak strukturnyy element administrativnogo protsessa // Administrativnoe pravo i protsess. — 2017. — № 3. — S. 70–76.

3. Kategorii dialektiki (teoretiko-metodologicheskie problemy): tsikl lektsiy / I. Ya. Loyfman, V. V. Kim, Yu. P. Andreev [i dr.]; pod obshch. red. I. Ya. Loyfmana. — Ekaterinburg: Izd-vo Uralskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2003. — 255 s.

4. Levin G. D. «Svyaz» kak filosofskaya kategoriya // Vestnik Universiteta Rossiyskoy akademii obrazovaniya. — 2006. — № 2. — S. 36–47.

5. Polyakova T. A. Pravovoe obespechenie natsionalnogo suvereniteta v informatsionnoy sfere: strategicheskie zadachi i problemy v usloviyakh tsifrovoy transformatsii v Rossiyskoy Federatsii // Vestnik Grodnenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni Yanki Kupaly. Seriya 4, Pravovedenie. — 2025. — T. 15. — № 1. — S. 25–35.

6. Rydchenko K. D. Administrativnaya otvetstvennost za propagandu pedofilii: perspektivy primeneniya i puti sovershenstvovaniya // Obshchestvo i pravo. — 2023. — № 1 (83). — S. 71–78.

7. Smirnov A. A. Pravovye sredstva protivodeystviya ugrozam, svyazannym s ispolzovaniem tekhnologiy iskusstvennogo intellekta // Nravstvennye imperativy rossiyskoy gosudarstvennosti: dostoinstvo lichnosti, suverenitet, solidarnost: sbornik nauchnykh trudov I Belgorodskogo mezhdunarodnogo yuridicheskogo foruma, Belgorod, 11–12 sentyabrya 2024 g.: v 2 t. T. 1. — Belgorod: Belgorodskiy gosudarstvennyy natsionalnyy issledovatelskiy universitet, 2024. — S. 147–150.

8. Sokolov A. Yu. Pravovoe protivodeystvie sovremennym vyzovam i ugrozam informatsionnoy bezopasnosti // Pravovaya politika i pravovaya zhizn. — 2024. — № 1. — S. 22–30.

9. Ursul A. D. Priroda informatsii: filosofskiy ocherk. — 2-e izd. — Chelyabinsk, 2010. — 231 s.

10. Usenkov I. A. Natsionalnoe myagkoe pravo kak pravovoy fenomen i instrument povysheniya stabilnosti zakonodatelstva // Pravo. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki. — 2022. — № 1. — S. 28–58.

11. Chebotareva A. A. Sovremennye aspekty mezhotraslevykh svyazey informatsionnogo prava // Bachilovskie chteniya: materialy IV Mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii, Moskva, 5–6 fevralya 2021 g. — Saratov: Amirit, 2022. — S. 84–89.

12. Shulikov K. A. Akty «myagkogo» prava kak sredstvo protivodeystviya rasprostraneniyu destruktivnogo kontenta v seti Internet // Sankt-Peterburgskie vstrechi molodykh uchenykh: materialy II Vserossiyskogo kongressa, Sankt-Peterburg, 11 iyunya 2024 g. — SPb.: Sankt-Peterburgskiy universitet MVD Rossii, 2024. — S. 443–447.

13. Eshbi U. R. Vvedenie v kibernetiku. — M.: Izd-vo inostrannoy literatury, 1959. — 432 s.