Propagowanie ustrojów totalitarnych i ich symboli w cyberprzestrzeni
The Promotion of Totalitarian Systems and Their Symbols in Cyberspace

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, electronic means of communication are the primary tool for communication, enabling the sharing, processing and storage of unlimited amounts of data. Computerisation has contributed to improving the functioning of public administration (the implementation of public affairs) and the provision of services (e-services). Unfortunately, cyberspace has also become a place for cybercriminals to operate in the information (disinformation) sphere, enabling, among other things, the dissemination of totalitarian content or symbols on an unprecedented scale. Currently, the Internet is often used as a tool in the so-called information war, and content shared online can be excellent propaganda material that serves to support a particular ideology or totalitarian regime. The aim of this article is to determine whether, and if so, how electronic means of communication can contribute to the intensification of activities promoting totalitarian regimes and their symbols. The thesis of the article is that the protection of cyberspace is necessary not only because of the need to update information and protect data, but should also aim to eliminate content and symbols promoting totalitarian state systems from cyberspace. It was assumed that confirmation of the adopted thesis requires answers to the following questions: what aspects should be given special attention when ensuring the protection of network users, and how important is the role of the mass media, especially the Internet, in the dissemination and popularisation of slogans and symbols known to totalitarian regimes. The subject of the study focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of computerisation in terms of the use of information and communication technologies by public authorities and other Internet users. The analysis of the topic will answer the question of what organisational and legal methods and measures should be used to prevent or limit the propagation of totalitarian regimes and their symbols on the Internet. The first part of the work contains a general description of the positive and negative aspects of digital transformation. The second part presents the issue of cyberspace as a place for promoting policies characteristic of totalitarian regimes. Research methods include the analysis of basic legal acts, such as: Act of 6th June 1997—Penal Code, Act of 1st April 2016 on the prohibition of propagating communism or other totalitarian system by the names of organizational units, auxiliary units of the commune, buildings, public facilities and equipment, as well as monuments and the Act of 5th July 2018 on the national cybersecurity system using the literature on the subject.

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