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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Why not Juffa?

By PNG Echo Don Polye, the Engan warlord, whose election result has been set aside on more than one occasion for suspected and proven tampering (including the most recent one), who is implicated in many corruption scandals including (but not only) the unresolved Paraka case, who has been rejected and sidelined by every government he’s served under, not least of all for incompetence, has been named as the alternative Prime Minister. Is this the best the Opposition can do? I’ve maintained (and am unlikely to resile from the position) that the Opposition is not a fit outfit to run a Continue reading Why not Juffa?

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