Government internet segment: protecting or restricting human rights?

Purpose: The purpose of this study is the problem of the existence of the right of citizens to access the Internet, as well as mechanisms for its implementation and restrictions. The authors note that this right is currently legally enshrined in a small number of states, however, it is recognized as a derivative of the right to access information and provides primary human rights. The problematic question is raised of the practical impossibility of determining the jurisdiction of the decision to protect citizens’ rights on the Internet by each individual state. Methodology: When writing the work, formal legal, comparative methods were used. Results: Based on an analysis of world experience, the authors conclude that the recently adopted measures of the Russian state, expressed in the adoption of a law to restrict the Internet, are mainly evidence that Russia has chosen the second approach. However, the fact that the segmentation of the Russian Internet, provided for in the aforementioned law, entails serious restrictions on the implementation of a whole range of rights of Russian Internet users, the most important of which is the right to free access to information, it is indisputable, which cannot be put up with...