THE DEFORMATION OF LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE INTERNET

Abstract

By now, the massive deformation of legal consciousness due to the impact of the Internet on it is becoming an increasingly serious problem in many coun-tries, because it entails a threat to the stability of society, which arises from the denial of law by some, quite a significant part of the population as a regulator of social and interpersonal relations. Denial of the authority of law, when it be-comes widespread, leads to an increase in the number of offenses, which in turn increases the burden on the law enforcement system and complicates the ways to force citizens to acceptable, legally stipulated behavior. Today, society and the state do not have sufficiently effective means and mechanisms capable of preventing or even reducing the negative impact of the Internet on legal con-sciousness, which, in the context of the rapid growth of the influence of the global information network on many spheres of human activity and on peo-ple's consciousness, significantly actualizes the problem of deformation of legal consciousness. The article analyzes the problems associated with the defor-mation of legal consciousness caused by the influence of the Internet on it.