Legal guarantees of information rights in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article examines the issues of legal regulation of ensuring guarantees of information rights of citizens in the context of the information revolution. Based on the understanding of information rights as an integral part of fundamental human rights, the understanding of the phenomenon of “censorship” is analyzed from a theoretical and practical point of view. An opinion is expressed regarding the use of two terms denoting censorship in the legislation of the Russian Federation: “positive censorship” and “illegal censorship”. Attention is focused on the issue of violation of information rights of citizens in the consumer market, as well as in the provision of advertising services.