Constitutional and legal dimension of “culture of cancellation” in context of digitalization

Vitaliy Mushakov

UDC

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VAK Russia

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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DIMENSION OF “CULTURE OF CANCELLATION” IN CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION Constitutional and legal dimension of “culture of cancellation” in context of digitalization

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Published in Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia · Pages 65–72 · Rubric: PUBLIC LAW (STATE LAW) SCIENCES

Received: 04.04.2025 Accepted: 25.09.2025 Published: 30.09.2025 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Vitaliy Mushakov

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Vitaliy Mushakov

Academic degree: candidate of jurisprudence sciences

Omsk Academy of the MIA of Russia Prepodavatel' · kafedra deyatel'nosti OVD v osobyh usloviyah · Russian Federation · Omsk

Military Educational and Scientific Centre of the Air Force «Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Y.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy» starshiy prepodavatel' · kafedra deyatel'nosti OVD v osobyh usloviyah · Russian Federation

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Under modern conditions of globalization of the information space generated by digital technologies, network resources are used everywhere as a tool for implementing the “culture of cancellation” (cancelling) as a modern political and cultural form of state or public censure of individuals and legal entities aimed at boycotting and refusing to recognize the results of their creative activity. Canceling, being an extralegal way of public restricting the constitutional rights and personal freedom, is not directly prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation. In this regard, in order to bring the public law legislation of the Russian Federation in line with the realities of illegal restriction on cultural rights and freedoms of citizens, the author sets the task of theoretical understanding the phenomenon of “culture of cancelling”, appealing to its constitutional, legal, cultural, political and technological aspects. Methods. During the study, approved methods within the bounds of legal science were used, including general methods of research, formal-legal and sociological methods, as well as structural and systematic approaches. Results. Based on the conducted research, the author substantiates the theoretical propositions on the content of the concept of “culture of cancelling”, the political, ideological and private levels of the application of cancelling, as well as on the peculiarities of the influence of digital technologies on the interaction of actors and objects of the action of “culture of cancelling”. Special attention is paid to the constitutional and legal status of the individual who has become the object of influence of the phenomenon under consideration. The conclusion about the anti-constitutional foreign and domestic practice of “culture of cancelling” is substantiated. Proposals have been made to improve the legislation of the Russian Federation on culture in terms of the inadmissibility of the dissemination of cancelling in order to exclude forcibly the scientists and cultural figures from the Russian and international cultural space.

KEYWORDS

culture of cancelling, cancelling, digitalization, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the cultural rights and freedoms of a person and citizen, freedom of creativity, the right of everyone to participate in cultural life, discrimination of citizens, cultural identity

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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DIMENSION OF “CULTURE OF CANCELLATION” IN CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION Constitutional and legal dimension of “culture of cancellation” in context of digitalization

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