Indonesia adds another weapon to its speech-suppressing arsenal
A worrying new internet law from South-East Asia’s biggest democracy
AFTER A SLOW start, citizens of South-East Asian countries have in recent years taken to the internet with gusto, using it, like their counterparts everywhere else, to shop, to chat with their friends, to watch movies and to listen to music—and to criticise their governments. And as in many parts of the world, governments have found that they do not much like that last feature of this whole internet thing.
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