Everyone has right of freedom of speech. Everyone has
authority to share his/her thoughts, opinions and views publicly. However, free
speech is one of the essential foundations of society. Hence, some sensitive
issues such as religion topics and politics topics, people should be considered
wisely before publicly worldwide. Of course, people have rights to share
everything through social website without any limit of restraint but people
should undertake of the consequences of freedom of speech.
Early September 2012, the U.S film of insulting
illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad which has been banned by France. Besides,
the anti-Islam film called Innocence of
Muslims has been uploaded onto Youtube had blocked in
Pakistan, Libya and Egypt. It
caused violence in US, and some Muslim countries due to cultural clash in the
mass media internet era. Stéphane Charbonnier editor of French satirical magazine stated that the purpose of
doing these video is fight over the role of freedom of speech and human rights
in Middle East. It is neither insulting nor ridicule Muslim people (Spiegel 2012).
After the videos released on Youtube, some
people might think the movie’s content has insulting to Muslim whereas some
people might think, it’s the golden chance to challenge for fledgling
democracies.
(Source :
thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com)
Freedom of
speech on the internet is quiet concern in the regions onSoutheast Asia.
According to Article 19 (2011) mentioned that the governments of Southeast Asia
use the laws and regulations to control online speech which has political
conflict, filtering contents on the internet, blocking file-sharing websites
and Acts to target online users. These regulations of mass media on internet
had been taken by Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Combodia. However, Controlling the freedom of expression
on internet, it could also protect others such as children. By doing this, crimes would have the
possibility to be avoided, as well.
Reference List :
- Spiegel Online, 2012, ‘France Bans Protests of Muhammad Caricature’ viewed 4 November 2012
- Article 19, 2011, ‘South East Asia: the state of free expression’ viewed 4 November 2012
No comments:
Post a Comment