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Is The Freedom to Share and Receive Information in Virtual Environment a Real Freedom?

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2018

Abstract

In the emergence of information and communication technologies, freedom of expression, including freedom to receive and impart information, has undergone significant changes. Even though the democratization processes of on-line publication of information seemingly evoke an unlimited possibility to spread and accept virtually anything virtual, the freedom to receive and impart information in cyberspace is not a process without obstacles.

Certain principles and legal rules may be deducted from the decision-making practice of European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of European Union, as well as from the recommendations of certain international organizations. The freedom to receive and impart information in cyberspace may be seen as a basic human right, but also from the point of view of the EU prohibition of any free market restrictions based on any form of discrimination.