Regulation of the IT Sphere as a Politico-Theoretical and Practical Problem

Abstract

The article discusses the development of theoretical and practical ideas about the significance of political regulation of the IT sphere, state control over certain campaigns related to the information industry. Both Western and Chinese experience in regulating the IT sphere is paradoxically similar in attempts to limit the number of players involved in big data, organizations of key digital platforms and the like. In Russia, the global scale of the problem of IT oligarchy also makes it necessary to study it. It is conditioned by almost impossible regulation at the level of a single national state alone. Besides, it is strengthened by the traditional approach of both the authorities and the opposition (including the intellectual front of various ideological connotations) to justify their actions and positions by referring to foreign experience.