Children’s interactions with the world have been drastically changed by the emergence of social media, but it has also brought fresh hazards. From cyberbullying to online predators, the risks of unbridled internet environments have grown to be a major cause of worry. The Australian government has responded to these mounting concerns by putting out a plan prohibiting children under the …

Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has rejected the bill requiring SIM cards and online entertainment records to be enlisted over worries that this will lead to a circumstance of perilous state interruption and observation. In view of this, Acting official representative Martin Andanar expressed in an articulation that Duterte dismissed the action over the incorporation of web-based entertainment in the …

Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) would depend on innovation and web-based entertainment records to identify and assist with arraigning competitors occupied with vote-buying. In view of this, At the previous virtual public interview, Comelec Commissioner George Garcia said there could be proof against vote-purchasing regardless of whether the cash is sent by means of computerized wallet. Likewise, since …

Scuffles broke out on Thursday between opponents and supporters of the Myanmar coup, as Facebook shut down all accounts connected to the military of the country and blocked advertising on its platforms from military-controlled companies. According to local media, pro-military protesters marching in downtown Yangon, the largest city in the country, stabbed one man and punched and hurled rocks at …

PETALING JAYA: A hacker activist group claiming to be Anonymous Malaysia, after lying dormant for almost six years, said it will soon launch attacks on Malaysian government websites. The attack is going to be a “wake-up call” the group said in a Facebook post, requesting more from the government to avoid data leaks. Hello, Malaysian.This is a wake-up call for …

SINGAPORE – When tackling fake news, social media platforms are hindered by their commercial interests, the Singapore law minister said, stressing the need for the city-state law against online falsehoods, which critics say stifles free speech.K. Shanmugam, speaking on Thursday in an interview for broadcast at the Reuters Next conference on Tuesday, defended the new city-state law against Facebook’s concern …

In Vietnam, Facebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” a hypothesis advanced in a recent Amnesty International study that confirms and fleshes out previous studies on Vietnam’s increasingly assertive attempts to extend its control over key social media networks. The 78-page study published on 1 December shows that the number of instances in which …

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society requested the police to sue big social media providers for failing to report the suspicious content that they were warned about.   It also targeted users of social media who posted messages offending the Royal Institution during last weekend’s anti-government demonstration in Bangkok. The case was lodged with the Information Crime Reduction Division by …

Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI) and Visi Mitra Mulia (iNews TV) are known to be currently in a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court (MK) contesting Act 32/2002 Article 1 Point 2 The two MNC media groups considered the ambiguous internet-based broadcasting arrangements and caused legal uncertainty to be the grounds for the lawsuit. The consequence of this lawsuit is that …

The youth-led protests started with three demands: dissolution of the House, constitutional amendment and an end to state critics’ intimidation. Later, at the Thammasat meeting on 10 August, a 10-point plan to reform the monarchy was announced, stirring even more confusion in an already fragmented Thai political arena. The Free Youth group grew into the Free Citizens party and on …