A Comparative Study of the Iranian Model of "Protecting Children and Adolescents in Cyberspace": Evaluation from the Perspective of International Child Rights Standards

The "Document for the Protection of Children and Adolescents in Cyberspace" creates a national model for legal regulation and management of cyberspace regarding Iranian children and adolescents. The spirit of this document, which is protectionism, is realized through "creating a protected virtual environment for children and teenagers". The realization of this importance is through the development of content that meets the special needs of children and teenagers, classifying cyber services, the establishment of a support and monitoring system, and cultivating and promoting cyber knowledge and international interactions. In General Comment No. 25, by introducing a guiding framework for the protection of children in cyberspace, the Committee on Rights of the Child (CRC) has given authenticity to the "protection of the best interests of the child" in cyberspace. The content of this model includes the obligation to eliminate all forms of discrimination against children, protection of the child's best interests and attention to his views, and national policy making, national and international cooperation, allocation of resources, evaluation of virtual effects, virtual knowledge enhancement, monitoring, preparation for litigation. And compensation is the solution to realize this important. This research using the descriptive-analytical method and in a comparative way shows that the model of "protection document" with priority given to national considerations including cultural-Islamic values and efforts to develop a protected virtual environment on the basis of the national information network and (not International Information Network) aims to draw an independent legal framework but related to the international obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran.