ISSN: 2265-6294

The legal nature of the virtual space on social media- public or private space

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Amine El-Khantouri,

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Social media have created a virtual environment of a special nature, which has created an important doctrinal and judicial debate about the existential or spatial nature of this virtual environment, because of its important legal repercussions and effects, so that the legal adaptation of the nature of the virtual space of social media is an important and influential matter in the nature and limits of Legal responsibilities resulting in the event of its misuse. Determining the legal nature of the virtual space provided by social media enables us to solve a set of legal puzzles on these sites, especially those related to the limits of the powers of administrative control of these sites by public authorities, as well as determining the nature, scope and various manifestations of the legal responsibility of their users. This legal nature of the virtual space of social media is often determined in light of the fact of the technical privacy on which these sites are based, and this is what we will learn about by discussing the various jurisprudential opinions and judicial positions related to determining the spatial nature of these sites in whether they constitute a public or private space.

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