Legal regulation of the Internet: foreign experience

Abstract

In the article raises the actual issue of legal regulation of the Kazakhstan Internet space. The
author examines the issues of combining the methods of legal regulation and self-regulation on the Internet.
Prospects of soft law in the international regulation of the Internet, in countries such as the United States, Britain
and Russia are assessed from different points of view. Especially the author draws attention to such topics as
terrorism, pornography and encroachment on the honor and dignity of citizens.
The relevance of this topic is expressed in the fact that, the Internet is still not sufficiently regulated from
the legal point of view. The constant increase in the number of subscribers and the growing importance of
information exchange through the Network attract the public’s attention to the problems of regulation, the
development of rules for the fair, legitimate functioning of the Internet by the state.
Internet legislation is a set of laws, other normative acts (national and foreign states) which are regulating
relations in the virtual space of the Internet. As an Internet relationship is considered only those relations that are connected with the social and legal regulation of the virtual space that is with the regulation of this space on
the basis of the norms of law, morals, ethics and other means.
The main problems of legal regulation are related to the order and conditions of the use of telecommunications
networks and protection of the rights and legitimate interests of various entities during the transfer of information
in global computer networks. There is a need to develop an adequate national legislation with all modern
requirements.
Nowadays, the native information legislation of Kazakhstan and other countries are very extensive. However,
it is still far from perfect and requires working out and adoption of new acts.