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OSA overhaul: changes includes mutiny incitement clause
View(s):The Cabinet has approved a list of proposed amendments to the Online Safety Act (OSA), including the suggestion to delete a substantive provision that deems any person (here or abroad) who communicates “any false statement, with intent to cause any officer, sailor, soldier, or airman in the navy, army or air force of Sri Lanka to mutiny, or with intent to cause fear or alarm to the public, induces any other person to commit an offence against the State or against the public tranquillity” to be guilty of an offence.
The Public Security Ministry got Cabinet clearance to introduce a long list of amendments drafted in collaboration with a four-member informal expert group. But the law was also challenged before the Supreme Court on the basis that the manner in which the Speaker certified it was ultra vires.
Among the proposed changes that the Cabinet approved was the addition of a clause that exempts from civil or criminal liability any internet service provider, internet intermediary or any other person who is liable to disclose data or other information for the purpose of any investigation under the OSA.
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