Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor

Internet content regulation is a global challenge for governments, private internet intermediaries and
internet users. Although digital technologies can help bolster individual freedoms, the effective exercise of
fundamental human rights, and democratic governance, they can also pose significant dangers to human
dignity and safety, public order, national security and other legitimate public interests that the state is
obligated to protect under the constitution. A delicate balance between individual rights – such as the
freedom of imparting and receiving information and ideas – and legitimate public interests – such as those
mentioned above – is needed. In Armenia, in order to strike and maintain that balance, it is paramount to
enact a legal framework for online content regulation in line with the Constitution of Armenia and Armenia’s
international obligations before the UN, the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU).

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