Freedom of Speech in the Digitalization Conditions: Problems of Public Legal Regulation and Ensuring a Balance Between Constitutional Human Rights and Interests of the State

Freedom of thought and speech is one of the basic democratic freedoms and is recognized by Russian law as a fundamental freedom of the individual. The Constitution of the Russian Federation establishes the duty of the state to guarantee everyone freedom of thought and speech. Freedom of speech is the sovereign right of a person to freely and voluntarily express their beliefs, the right to accessible information and its free dissemination by any legal means. From all the diversity of its manifestations, including personal and political rights, the plurality of derivative rights, it follows that freedom of speech is a self-sufficient institution of law. Meanwhile, in modern conditions, the implementation of freedom of speech faces a number of restrictions. The authors of the article examine the problematic issues of the implementation of constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, which today gives rise to disputes and discussions.

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