Indonesia is the latest government to propose a legal framework to coerce social media platforms, apps, and other online service providers to accept local jurisdiction over their content and users’ data policies and practices. And in many ways, its proposal is the most invasive of human rights.
This rush of national regulations started with Germany’s 2017 “NetzDG” law, which compels internet platforms to remove or block content without a court order and imposes draconian fines on companies that don’t proactively submit to the country s own content-removal rules. Since NetzDG entered into force, Venezuela, Australia, Russia, India, Kenya, the Philippines, and Malaysia have followed with their own laws or been discussing laws similar to the German example.
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Daniel Bastard, the Asia-Pacific director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), told DW that the provisions of this cybersecurity law pose a clear threat to the right of Myanmar s citizens to reliable information and to the confidentiality of journalists and bloggers data. It is very similar to draconian legislation in China and Vietnam, which are countermodels of press freedom online, he added.
Since the military began interrupting internet access, internet and mobile providers have also been ordered to block Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I think [the military] might find other ways to control our access to the internet rather than shutting it down completely, like the new law which basically gives them the justification to arrest anyone, a Myanmar online activist who goes by Naum told DW.
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