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Bangladesh’s Digital Security Bill can have a ‘chilling effect on free speech’: Asia Internet Coalition
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Asia Internet Coalition said in June that Bangladesh’s Digital Security Bill (BDSA) creates several obstacles to the conducive use of the internet ecosystem due to several vague obligations, unchecked powers, disproportionate penalties, and unworkable compliance requirements. The coalition, to which Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo! are members, pointed out that the Act can have a chilling effect on free speech, and highlighted issues with how offences are laid out in it. Other members of the coalition are Apple, Expedia Group, Line, Rakuten, Airbnb, Grab, and Booking.com.
Bangladesh had passed the Digital Security Bill 2018 in September last year. Protests have been carried out against the bill; Amnesty International has called the law an attack on freedom of expression.
The coalition pointed out its issues with the Act, and also made some recommendations:
The act can have a ‘chilling effect on free speech’; offences under Act vague and subjective
AIC said that certain provisions of the act such as Section 21, 25 and 31 will have a “chilling effect on speech” because they’re “vaguely drafted”. It cited Section 66A of India’s IT Act which the Indian Supreme Court struck down for being “open ended, undefined, and vague”. It also urged the Bangladeshi government bear in view the “well established” tenets of international human rights law such as Article 19(3) of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. It points out issues specific to different clauses:
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We missed this earlier.
Asia Internet Coalition said in June that Bangladesh’s Digital Security Bill (BDSA) creates several obstacles to the conducive use of the internet ecosystem due to several vague obligations, unchecked powers, disproportionate penalties, and unworkable compliance requirements. The coalition, to which Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo! are members, pointed out that the Act can have a chilling effect on free speech, and highlighted issues with how offences are laid out in it. Other members of the coalition are Apple, Expedia Group, Line, Rakuten, Airbnb, Grab, and Booking.com.
Bangladesh had passed the Digital Security Bill 2018 in September last year. Protests have been carried out against the bill; Amnesty International has called the law an attack on freedom of expression.
The coalition pointed out its issues with the Act, and also made some recommendations:
The act can have a ‘chilling effect on free speech’; offences under Act vague and subjective
AIC said that certain provisions of the act such as Section 21, 25 and 31 will have a “chilling effect on speech” because they’re “vaguely drafted”. It cited Section 66A of India’s IT Act which the Indian Supreme Court struck down for being “open ended, undefined, and vague”. It also urged the Bangladeshi government bear in view the “well established” tenets of international human rights law such as Article 19(3) of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. It points out issues specific to different clauses:
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https://rwtxt.lelux.fi/blackbox/bangladeshs-digital-security-bill-can-have-a-chilling-effect-on-free-speech-asia-internet-coalition
#Bangladesh #DigitalSecurityBil #BDSA #Asia #FreeSpeach #chilling #thinkabout
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In Bangladesh, there is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to use Facebook.
In April 2020, in the midst of an ongoing national lockdown, Ahmed Imran Kabir decided to buy a parrot.
After most of the management classes Kabir taught at a university in Dhaka were canceled or moved online, he suddenly had plenty of time to focus on his passion project: becoming a part-time bird breeder. Sitting in his three-bedroom apartment one day, Kabir keyed in the phrase “Buy-sell birds Dhaka” on Facebook and joined about half a dozen groups dedicated to avian retail.
“Breeding pair. Age: 20 days. Contact by phone or inbox” read one post, alongside images of a pair of grayish-brown cockatiels. Another seller, located in the Kallyanpur neighborhood in Dhaka, posted pictures of yellow-feathered lutino cockatiels, with the Bengali phrase hat bodol hobe — which loosely translates as “to change hands.” The wording was intended to circumvent a Facebook algorithm that, to prevent wildlife trafficking, automatically takes down posts with “buy” or “sell” in the description. If an interested buyer did contact an owner, the next step was to haggle over the price of the bird on Facebook Messenger.
https://restofworld.org/2020/bangladesh-economy-runs-on-facebook/
#asia #bangladesh #facebook
In Bangladesh, there is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to use Facebook.
In April 2020, in the midst of an ongoing national lockdown, Ahmed Imran Kabir decided to buy a parrot.
After most of the management classes Kabir taught at a university in Dhaka were canceled or moved online, he suddenly had plenty of time to focus on his passion project: becoming a part-time bird breeder. Sitting in his three-bedroom apartment one day, Kabir keyed in the phrase “Buy-sell birds Dhaka” on Facebook and joined about half a dozen groups dedicated to avian retail.
“Breeding pair. Age: 20 days. Contact by phone or inbox” read one post, alongside images of a pair of grayish-brown cockatiels. Another seller, located in the Kallyanpur neighborhood in Dhaka, posted pictures of yellow-feathered lutino cockatiels, with the Bengali phrase hat bodol hobe — which loosely translates as “to change hands.” The wording was intended to circumvent a Facebook algorithm that, to prevent wildlife trafficking, automatically takes down posts with “buy” or “sell” in the description. If an interested buyer did contact an owner, the next step was to haggle over the price of the bird on Facebook Messenger.
https://restofworld.org/2020/bangladesh-economy-runs-on-facebook/
#asia #bangladesh #facebook
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If Zuckerberg ran your economy, it would look a lot like this
There is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to use Facebook.