Saturday, August 21, 2021

#CUBA: Cybersecurity Law Criticized As Way To Crack Down On Protests

[world politics news]


The Cuban government had published decrees spelling out its first cybersecurity law, which has been criticized as an attempt to limit political and civic freedoms on the island. 

The decrees, which lay out the Caribbean nation's laws against the use of social media or the internet to insult the state or stir up protests, were published in the Official Gazette weeks after Cuba saw the largest protests it has seen in recent years.

The protests were fed, in part, by messages on social media. 

[FULL STORY HERE]

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