Cyberextremism: Delimitation from other Information Destructive Impact on a Person in Cyberspace

Relevance. Today, there is a significant increase in the number of extremist crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies, which gives rise to an urgent need to develop measures to counter them. However, among researchers there is no consensus on what should be understood as cyberextremism. Very often, too many elements are included in this concept. As a result of such uncertainty, the effectiveness of both the activities of law enforcement agencies directly to prevent such crimes and the development of appropriate preventive measures by the scientific community is reduced.
The purpose is to determine the essence of the concept of "cyberextremism", distinguishing it from other information destructive impact on a person.
Objectives: based on the analysis of the regulatory framework and scientific literature, to determine the key elements that characterize the concept of "cyberextremism" and distinguish it from other forms of information destructive impact on a person in cyberspace.
Methodology. In the course of the work, methods of theoretical research (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, mental modeling) as well as a statistical method were used.
Results. The study proposes a definition of cyber-extremism as a set of extremist acts prohibited by the current legislation, necessarily accompanied by a specific way of committing them, namely, the use of information and telecommunication technologies.
Conclusions. In the course of the analysis of the current legislation and the opinions of researchers on the regulation of extremism, it was found that it should include only acts prohibited by criminal and administrative legislation, for which appropriate liability is established. Any other actions of a destructive nature, from a legal point of view, cannot be attributed to extremism. Based on the analysis of available scientific works devoted to the definition of cybercrime, it was concluded that cyberextremism is a form of committing extremist crimes using information and telecommunication technologies.

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