Social Media to be regulated in PNG
Minister for Petroleum and Energy and Madang MP, Nixon Duban is calling on responsible authorities to regulate the world wide web-based social media focusing on PNG. The Minister said the Government in a National Executive Council Decision last year agreed for a regulatory policy for the social media. But he is questioning authorities charged with the responsibility why it is taking too long for such regulations to materialise. He said while PNG enjoys the ideals of democracy underpinned by basics rights and freedoms of a free society, the internet and hi-tech information and communication technology revolution has moved the boundaries of these rights and freedoms to the extent where persons with political inclinations, opportunists and social media freaks are abusing these freedoms and rights. “Serious instances are on face-book and other sites where people are opening up fake accounts to raise dangerously critical and defamatory allegations upon leaders and at