Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Most websites publish the address of the manager and almost all have special sections for reporting malicious or abusive users. But not only that, from defamation to plagiarism, many of the crimes that existed before the invention of the Internet are now applicable to the virtual world.
Several international terrorist groups have their web pages, like child pornography and the hundreds of sites that share plagiarized content, but the fact that we find pages involved in illegal activities does not mean that the Internet should be seen as a place where the law can be violated with impunity. While it is true that some manage to evade the legal system, the cases of persons punished for committing crimes through the Internet are abundant.
Even when there are no special laws, the Internet is in practice a regulated space, and we should not be surprised if, in the future, new rules for the global network are implemented, as has happened with almost all human activities. However, we must be clear that is not the same regulating with democratic ends, than controlling with authoritarian targets. In democratic countries, the governing institutions impose the legal order on everyone; while in authoritarian countries, the government allows access only to the information selected by a small sector of the nation.
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