Forwarding porn emails, two years behind the bars
We sometimes get email with porn contents and love to forward it to friends, right? Well, you'd better be careful to do that in Indonesia once the cyber law deliberated. Police might caught you and send you to jail for two years.
As reported by Detik.com today, the cyber bill categorize the porn email forwarding as a crime. Legislators are currently debating the information and electronic transaction bill. Article 26 of the Chapter VII of the cyber bill stated, "anyone is forbidden to spread electronic information which contains pornography and or porn actions through computers or electronic system."
It's OK to receive a porn email, though! Well, if the article want to prevent Indonesian people from enjoying pornography, why not categorize as a crime as well for receiving porn emails? Isn't this a clear ambiguity of the cyber law when it comes to pornography?
IT observers and practicioners criticize the article saying it's not in line with the initial purpose of the cyber law to give legal protection on electronic transaction. They claimed the cyber law should not regulate such porn issues as the controversial anti pornography and porn action bill has a lot of specific articles to tackle that.
If the article would be approved, no more privacy in email, and that might be a breach to personal rights, becase the police would have access to our emails.
Cyber Law address the issues of virtual property and virtual persons; it covers rights of Net Citizens and regulates the cyber space for a peaceful and harmonious existence of the Internet citizens. But as some says, the biggest challenge before Cyber Law is its integration with the legacy system of laws applicable to the physical world.
As reported by Detik.com today, the cyber bill categorize the porn email forwarding as a crime. Legislators are currently debating the information and electronic transaction bill. Article 26 of the Chapter VII of the cyber bill stated, "anyone is forbidden to spread electronic information which contains pornography and or porn actions through computers or electronic system."
It's OK to receive a porn email, though! Well, if the article want to prevent Indonesian people from enjoying pornography, why not categorize as a crime as well for receiving porn emails? Isn't this a clear ambiguity of the cyber law when it comes to pornography?
IT observers and practicioners criticize the article saying it's not in line with the initial purpose of the cyber law to give legal protection on electronic transaction. They claimed the cyber law should not regulate such porn issues as the controversial anti pornography and porn action bill has a lot of specific articles to tackle that.
If the article would be approved, no more privacy in email, and that might be a breach to personal rights, becase the police would have access to our emails.
Cyber Law address the issues of virtual property and virtual persons; it covers rights of Net Citizens and regulates the cyber space for a peaceful and harmonious existence of the Internet citizens. But as some says, the biggest challenge before Cyber Law is its integration with the legacy system of laws applicable to the physical world.
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