BY IMPERCEPTIBLE DEGREES: Free speech campaigners in Pakistan have long complained of creeping censorship in the name of protecting religion or preventing obscenity.
ISLAMABAD: International rights organisations including Human Rights Watch urged Pakistan’s parliament to reject a proposed cybercrime bill which they said threatened freedom of expression and privacy.
The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2015, which was approved last week by a committee and is set to go before a parliamentary vote, contains provisions that allows the government to censor content and criminalise net activity under what critics have described as overly broad criteria.
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