Political Science
Mehdi Azizi; Ali Abedi Renani; Ali Ismaili Ardakani
Abstract
Virtual social networks have a very important and decisive role in today's human life. According to the technical conditions and the possibility of action that they create for their audience, these media create opportunities and threats for their users at the same time. In Iran, the filtering policy ...
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Virtual social networks have a very important and decisive role in today's human life. According to the technical conditions and the possibility of action that they create for their audience, these media create opportunities and threats for their users at the same time. In Iran, the filtering policy has always been seriously criticized. in this applied research, considering the importance of the role of ethics in policy-making, which can make policy-making less expensive while being easily accepted by the people, we have investigated the ethical justification of filtering in social networks. The data collection method of this research is a combination of library and field methods
According to the findings of this research, the absolute majority of the respondents did not consider the filtering policy to be ethical. According to the audience, filtering is in conflict with ethical standards in the following areas: Lack of justification and persuasion of people, violation of individual rights and human dignity, damage to people's interests, ineffectiveness and impracticality, context of violation and corruption, injustice in access to cyberspace facilities, unfairness and weakening of honesty and transparency. Finally, practical suggestions were presented to reduce the consequences of filtering.
