Vanuatuâs prime minister, Bob Loughman, said that the changes were aimed at addressing how people talk on social platforms, but acknowledgedits effects could be more far-reaching, Vanuatuâs Daily Post newspaper reported on Wednesday. Dr Tess Newton Cain, program leader of the Griffith Asia Institute Pacific Hub, told the Guardian that the broad wording of the amendments to the penal code could have âa significant chilling effectâ on journalists and others expressing their opinions on everything from talkback radio to Facebook. She noted that while freedom of expression was guaranteed by article five of Vanuatuâs constitution, it was also already âsubject to a certain number of limitationsâ.