Volume 10 , Issue 2 , December 2022 , Pages 269-305
Saja Muhammad Abbas 1 ; Zainab Abdel-Kadhim Hassan 2
1 Department of Law/College of Law, Al-Nahrain University - Iraq
2 Department of Law/College of Law, University of Maysan - Iraq.
With the emergence of social networking sites and the common use of people by people, the numbers changed from the concepts and the numbers were briefed from the distances and the long time was erupted from the time, and the life became more easily and more well -being, but this development that has shown the doors to the one who did Negative, either at the individual level or at the collective level. The goal of the existence of (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and other social networking sites is to facilitate the communication process and make it simple, fast and inexpensive,and then helping to exchange knowledge and ideas, even education and culture, and opening a window for freedom of expression, but the reality revealed to us that these sites became a means of committing blasphemy crimes, so they were exposed by the state’s secrets, extortionists, and extortionists. Some of these sites have become contributing to destabilizing public security, defaming state institutions, promoting terrorist ideas, drugs and weapons, and spreading pornographic materials by employees belonging to those departments, whether during official working hours or outside. Therefore, it has become necessary to research the legal responsibility of the employee for the use of these sites in a way that harms the public function and the reputation of state institutions on the one hand and disturbs public order and morals on the other hand, by researching the legal basis for the administration’s right to punish the employee administratively in accordance with the Law of Discipline of State and Public Sector Employees or his referral The competent authority to hold him judicially accountable in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Code and other relevant laws for such behavior.