- Many countries in the world are proud of freedom of speech, human rights but websites which offend individuals and organizations are not accepted in these nations.
Indeed, no countries in
the world accept the behaviors of taking advantage of freedom speech to break
the laws or moral standards existing in their societies.
In the middle of July
2012, Advisory Council on legislative issues of King of Saudi Arabia has
prepared a written Law to fight against people who use blogs, Twitter and
Facebook to offend Muslim and Muslim law system.
This law provides Pubic Prosecutors with the authority to punish individuals
who violate it.
It is also prohibited
to use means of communication for bad purpose even in Western countries, such
as United Kingdom.
For example, at the
beginning of May, John Graham Kerlen, a political blogger, was sentenced to 6
months in prison because of spreading “offensive information” against a local
official in Bexley, London.
According to Section
127, British Communications Act 2003, a person will be regarded as guilty if he
post and send offensive contents on the internet or if he spreads untrue contents
“to unnecessarily harass or irritate other people”.
Local Government in
Bexley said that they supported Freedom of speech but they also confirmed that
Kerlen had exceeded the limit of behavior that is acceptable in the framework
of freedom.
On Clear Lake Shores
city, Texas State, USA, a blogger named Allan Batchelor has been caught on
March, 2012 for impersonation on the Internet.
Allan Batchelor posted the
email address of a woman whose husband was a candidate running the election to
City Council on his blog and invited others to send spams and computer virus to
the above email address.
According to Section
33.07 in Criminal Law of Texas, “a person violates the law if he uses other
person’s name or status without permission in order to harm, cheat on or threaten
anyone”.
Obviously, in any
society, freedom of speech and freedom of news are not synonymous with
distorting the facts or offending and causing any harm to individuals or
organizations’ reputation, which are similar to the behaviors of some websites
against our Party and Government. The more civilized the society is, the more
unacceptable such behaviors are; and we need to fight against them not only to
ensure strictness and justice of the law but also to conserve the beautiful
meaning of civil liberty.
Source: Vietnam
Government Portal
