Laws on Cyber Crime: you asked for it!

By PNG Echo It’s draconian went up the plaintive cry in response to the new cyber-crime laws passed by the PNG legislature in parliament yesterday with an overwhelming vote of 73-0. The moaners are the same people whose illegal and/or immoral activities this legislation had been enacted to curb: the people who abuse social media, Internet and the privilege of free speech in this medium. As I’ve not yet had the opportunity to peruse the legislation, I can’t comment on whether it is excessively harsh and severe (as the use of the word ‘draconian’ implies), but what it definitely is, Continue reading Laws on Cyber Crime: you asked for it!

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Oh the irony! Students breaking the law to insist on the rule of law.

By PNG Echo. Let’s be blunt: the students – or the militant minority, have got exactly what they want. Page four of yesterday’s Post Courier foretold it all: According to reporter Nellie Setapano, an illegal forum had been overseen by Students’ Representative Council President, Kenneth Rapa and attended by less than 300 students where a strategy was formed to deliberately defy and provoke police. The stated aim of the militant ones was to get themselves arrested in order to gain public attention, sympathy and support. But even with this pitifully poor turnout, it was reported that a large number of Continue reading Oh the irony! Students breaking the law to insist on the rule of law.

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