Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has forthrightly stated that a main thrust of the nation’s new Cybersecurity Law is to target so-called “cowards” on the internet who “bully or slander”.
The law carries penalties for acts such as copyright infringement, electronic forgery, hacking, computer-based fraud, spam and online harrassment.
But it raised immediate concerns among those who claim the new law could violate freedom of expression in references to defamatory publication.
A press release on Tuesday made those concerns real.
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