The expert predicted an increase in the number of court decisions on insults in messengers

People bring conflicts into the digital environment, and the courts are forced to go there for them, so it is likely that the practice of such punishments will expand, Alexey Gavrishev, managing partner of AVG Legal, told Izvestia.

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"I predict an expansion of the practice of such punishments, because people carry conflicts in numbers, and the courts are forced to go after them," he said.

According to him, insulting in the messenger has long been qualified in the same way as offline: in fact, this is all the same humiliation of honor and dignity, expressed in an indecent form, it's just that the communication channel has become digital. There has been judicial practice on this issue for several years.

Gavrishev added that for the court there is no serious difference in how the insult was inflicted: by voice message, text or picture.

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