On fake news and electronic communications
For three years, the government (former and present) has been promoting a bill to amend the Criminal Code, Chapter 154, aimed at criminalizing fake news and forms of electronic communication, telephone and Internet. The Anastasiades government initiated the bill with its then minister of Justice Emily Yiolitis. There is no point in going into details and the logic of arguments put forward about the exact content, the goals and, above all, the pretentious arguments they had put forward to support the bill. Suffice it to point out that the effort made to found their proposed provisions in Law and Jurisprudence was minimal or negligible. I would like to state at the outset that this analysis refers to the original bill introduced in 2021, which is the only one that is publicly available. What does [...]