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Problems of Recognition Extremist Information on the Internet
In recent years, there is an increase of extremist activities in different countries in the world. Terrorist organizations skillfully recruited new supporters. Internet is one way of attracting people to the organization of extremist activities. Information placed on websites explicitly or implicitly leads to actions aimed at destabilizing the political situation in the country and poses a threat to the health and life of many people. Internet users are not always able to clearly define which kind of information they receive from different sites is really extremist information.
In 2013, we conducted the research in a large industrial center of Yekaterinburg (Russia). The method of research is case-study. The aims are to examine the problems of recognition of the materials that aimed at promoting extremism and to implement actions that destabilize the political situation in the country. 2000 respondents were interviewed. They are representatives of different social groups.
The study shows that 67% of people consider that extremist information provides different methods of manufacturing explosives. Using it, one can see people, who suggests ideas of how to use it. Thus, the groups of teenagers appear who are able to commit dangerous acts against law enforcement and private citizens. 57% of people believes that extremist information calls for the approval of the advantages of one nation over the other, 53% of respondents believes that extremist information means call for terrorist acts. In this case, 17 % of school students and college students mention the difficulties in discerning which information is really extremist. 65% respondents expresses the need for training, especially young people in order to identify the information in the Internet which encourages extremism.