Legal Dimensions Block Internet Service

Abstract

International conventions and agreements organized methods to restrict public freedoms in normal circumstances, which are more severe in the case of exceptional circumstances to preserve public order. This is what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stated in 1948 in Article (19 / paragraph II) that everyone has the right to follow the news at the same time permitted it to be restricted according to interests of public, morals and security affairs added to it to protect the rights and freedoms of others. In the recent period, with the escalation of protests and popular revolutions, some ruling regimes, such as in Egypt, Iraq, and other countries, resorted to blocking the Internet service, blocking social networking sites, and obstructing the right to obtain information because they may be used to promote violence, hatred and conspiracy against the homeland in times of crisis, based on the primacy of power Executive in exceptional circumstances to achieve the purposes of administrative control to prevent the publication of everything that is harmful to its interests or related to its criticism of preserving the system or returning . These measures have created legal problems and resulted economic losses, restriction of the basic rights of individuals to obtain information guaranteed by the laws of the United Nations. The aim of the study is to organize this right judicially and not to leave the issue of restricting it to the executive authority in order to guarantee and protect rights and freedoms by facing the instructions and orders issued .