A Stealth Article
The law at the center of the controversy came about due to the burgeoning number of crimes in the virtual world. But the Press Council was forgotten, allowing a defamation article to slip through.
June 9, 2009
IN terms of its aims, the Law on Information & Electronic Transactions is indeed noble: eradicating crime in the virtual world of the Internet and pornographic websites. Deliberated over a period of around 18 months, the law does indeed contain sufficiently detailed articles that can send the perpetrators of crimes in the virtual world to jail.
According Suparlan, the chair of the special committee that drafted the law, aside from stemming Interne
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