Photo courtesy of Factum Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act (OSA) is now part of a series of laws that results in a chilling effect on civic space. Around the world, increasingly, authoritarian and illiberal regimes have resorted to weaponizing fear using the guise of regulating online content to stifle and trample upon free speech. Sri Lanka is one such country that passed a law in January 2024 titled the Online Safety Act, No. 09 of 2024, purportedly to address cybercrime. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in his recent report to the Human Rights Council after a…
Guardrails or Gags: Why the Online Safety Act Fails Us
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