The dialectic of the doctrine of free flow of information

The doctrine of the free flow of information has been one of the most contentious issues in the field of international communication for more than a few decades. Since its inception, it has always had a variety of conflicts and agreements on various issues from a dialectical point of view, and although it has had many supporters among the North countries, it has also faced stubborn opposition in the South. In this research, an attempt has been made to critique and examine these conflicts and agreements from the point of view of proponents and opponents, using a phenomenological approach and a descriptive-analytical method, by presenting legal documents. The results show that many legal documents in international laws and charters emphasize the right to freedom of expression and thought and their right to free access to information. But technological inequalities in the world, instead of the balanced institutionalization of the free flow of information in the world, have led to the formation of an unbalanced and one-way flow of information from the north to the south. However, the existing technological hardware and software infrastructural inequalities in the world have not only not led to the balanced and balanced institutionalization of the free flow of information in the world, but have also increased its unbalanced dimensions, to the extent that it has been instrumentally used by the northern countries. It has reached the limit of subverting the official and political governments of independent southern countries and creating national and security crises in them. One of the most important consequences of this one-way flow is the hegemony and cultural domination of the northern countries over the south, which have exposed the southern countries to cultural transformation with the use of media and media products.It has gone so far as to provoke the critical views of many prominent Western thinkers, and is referred to as cultural imperialism.