HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE INTERNET: THE CORRELATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN OFFLINE AND ONLINE RIGHTS

Abstract

The idea of the article is that, in general, digitalization does not create new human rights of a fundamentally different legal nature. It only actualizes or smooth certain aspects of long-recognized rights, transfers their operation into the virtual space, creates new opportunities for their realization and generates new threats to them. Ensuring human rights in modern conditions involves the search for adequate legal solutions, taking into account the opportunities and limitations generated by digital technologies. The world process of digitalization substantially affects virtually all social relationships, the fact that requires reassessment of many basic legal concepts. Among them are human rights, especially on the Internet. It is now increasingly asserted that technological innovations result in the emergence of new digital rights being that fundamentally differ from conventional rights and form a new generation of human rights.