Open AccessHuman rights in the age of digitalization
Author(s) -
Elena Olegovna Tchinaryan,
Evgeny Sergeevich Kuchenin,
Vladimir Lvovich Slesarev,
Andrey Vladimirovich Ryzhik
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
laplage em revista
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-6220
DOI - 10.24115/s2446-6220202172694p.119-125
Subject(s) - the internet , politics , intellectual property , democratization , openness to experience , human rights , independence (probability theory) , population , anonymity , law , sociology , political science , law and economics , public administration , democracy , computer science , psychology , social psychology , statistics , demography , mathematics , world wide web
At the very beginning of the 21st century, some experts agreed that the dispersal of the political and cultural initiative of network societies tends to reduce the unified control over political and cultural activities. This process leads to the accessibility of information to the general population and increases the scale of democratization of society. The accessible Internet environment has had a positive impact on the openness of information; however, it has harmed the protection of users' data. Gerald Cohen, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who is an expert in intellectual property and copyright protection, recommends considering Internet utopianism through a system of legal values. It is important to note the utopianism that links the Internet network and human independence considering utopianism in the field of anonymity in more detail, as something that harms social institutions. Cohen also outlines the view that existing legal institutions are the basis for protecting human independence, as well as the importance of creating new legal institutions.