The Cambodian authorities is pushing forward with a cybercrime legislation that consultants say could possibly be wielded to additional curtail freedom of speech amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent.
The cybercrime draft is the third contentious web legislation that authorities have pursued prior to now 12 months as the federal government, led by new Prime Minister Hun Manet, seeks higher oversight of web actions, the US government-funded information service Voice of America (VoA) reported.
The newest draft of the cybercrime legislation incorporates 55 articles, based on each English and Khmer language variations obtained by VoA. It lays out numerous offences punishable by fines and jail time, together with defamation, utilizing “insulting, derogatory or impolite language”, and sharing “false data” that might hurt Cambodia’s public order and “conventional tradition”.
In full: https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2773624/cambodian-cybercrime-law-seen-as-threat-to-dissent
