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Sri Lanka: Censoring the web and Internet

Categories: South Asia, Sri Lanka, Freedom of Speech, Law

ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) discusses [1] about a proposed law in Sri Lanka restricting private TV broadcasting: “disturbingly, the proposed regulations are a significant challenge to all bloggers in Sri Lanka, since they seek to hold accountable all ISPs for the qualitative nature of the content transmitted, accessed and produced using their networks and further, makes no distinction between IP TV (e.g. SLT’s PeoTV) and TV/televisual content over the web and Internet (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo).”