Criminal Liability of Internet Service Providers: A Comparative Legal Study

Abstract

 

The information technology revolution was accompanied by a noticeable increase in the amount of assault on the rights of others and violation of the law, and in the interest of states to control this violation, especially the users of the information network and professionals, they intervened legislatively with modern legislation to create a balanced legal system appropriate to the nature of work on the Internet, aspiring to determine the obligations of each of the users of the Internet. The network and its administrators or what are called intermediate service providers, we would like to point out that these legislations imposed on Internet service providers to follow certain rules, whether when undertaking access, transfer, accommodation or supplying information, despite the refusal of the legislation to impose a general obligation to control information content, which It does not make them responsible in certain cases.