Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1993), adopted in 1948 states as below: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." (United Nations, 1997) The above notwithstanding, the right to internet access and social media have not yet been recognized as a human right in spite of the use of the internet as an opportunity, empowerment and knowledge. The internet is critical in today's world and its importance in people's access to health, wealth, information and financial services cannot be understated. These rights and responsibilities that come with social media need to be reconceptualized withing the frameworks of the rights to information and the rights to communicate since they have the tendency to empower and re­ shape the world. That notwithstanding, the ability for harm to derive the same rights can happen in in equal measure. Indeed a right of social media access is looked at against other rights and competing interests including privacy, intellectual property protection and ensuring public order. It is therefore about time that a safe way to access social media whether through the internet or through either means is guaranteed. The internet is viewed as an enabler to other rights such as rights to expression which include opinion. The question as to whether the blocking 3