Features of Legal Regulation of the Constitutional Right of Everyone to Produce Information on the Internet

Introduction. Modern society is undergoing yet another information revolution related to the formation and development of the global information and telecommunication network – “Internet”. In this connection, there is the question of understanding the features of the right to produce information in the Internet space. Theoretical analysis. The author considers the production of information in the 19th century, in the Soviet period and the present. Development of the Internet has greatly simplified the creation and transmissions of information, and, in this connection, the constitutional subjective right to produce information becomes available to everyone. Empirical analysis. The study of legal restrictions on the right to produce information highlights the features that are important for the legal regulation of relevant public relations. Results. The author notes that the relations connected with the right to produce information in the “Internet” network have a number of features, and highlights the following ones: 1) changing methods and accelerating the production of information, the prevalence of a single process of “production-distribution” of information; 2) blurring the boundaries between the private and public information space; 3) heterogeneity of entities engaged in the production of information. The author concludes that the analysis of modern Russian legislation has revealed trends such as the use of indirect restrictions on the right to produce information, as well as the lack of differentiation of legal regulation of the activities of entities engaged in the production and distribution of information in the Internet.