The controversial guidelines for the media to combat terrorism, prepared by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting, may have been tabled before the house but legislators believe that there still is a long way to go before any such measure can be implemented...The system could monitor Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Viber in real-time for usage that might “harm public security or incite terrorism”. It could also screen content for “vocabulary which is contrary to law and public morality”. However, this is exactly what digital rights activists such as Shahzad Ahmed have been campaigning against. The country director for Bytes For All, Mr Ahmed said that the report talked about the social media and Internet from a relatively “intolerant and fearful perspective”.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 06:49:09 +0000
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