How many of you web users in Nigeria have looked into the planned Cyber-Crime bill which is on the table of house of rep in Nigeria ?
For insulting some body on the web, you may get a 5year jail term. Just Like that, are they for real ? I do not understand why that government isn't concentrating on crucial things. They're today wanting to trap down the wings of media web sites, websites, readers/commenters and people of bill in to law. Where is freedom of speech, flexibility and expression? Find the bill when you continue after the break.
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For using profane language on other people or pelting them with insults or abusive words on social networking sites, Internet users in Nigeria risk a jail term that ranges between 12 months and five years.
Section 18 sub-section 1 of the Cyber-Crime Bill 2013, which is pending before the House of Representatives, expressly states that anybody who “insults publicly, through a computer system or network” commits an offence and will be liable on conviction to imprisonment “for a term of not less than five years or to a fine of not less than N10m or to both fine and imprisonment.” Continue...it gets more interesting
Also, the bill prescribes a jail term of
five years for anyone who circulates or makes any racist and xenophobic
material available online.
Cyber-criminals, who hide under the
anonymity of the Internet to bully, harass other users of online
platforms also risk jail terms when the law comes into full force. .
Section 15 of the bill, which deals with
issues of cyber-stalking, prescribes a jail term of 12 months for anyone
found guilty of posting messages deemed “grossly offensive, indecent,
obscene” or messages aimed at “causing annoyance, inconvenience or
needless anxiety” to another online user.
Besides, anyone who bullies, threatens or harasses another person, through “information and communication technologies” or posts messages online that contains “threats to kidnap or injure” another person will be jailed five years or pay a fine of N15m or both.
According to the bill, Internet service
providers will be required to keep all traffic data and subscriber
information for the purpose of prosecuting those suspected of committing
cyber-crimes.
The service providers are expected to
provide necessary assistance towards the identification, apprehension
and prosecution of offenders, failure of which makes them liable to
fines and or jail terms.
Part V, Section four of the bill
prescribes the Office of the National Security Adviser as the
co-coordinating body for all security and enforcement agencies when the
bill becomes law.
One of the high points of the law is the
prescription of death sentence for anyone who commits an offence against
what it calls “critical national information infrastructure” which
results in death.
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