'Somebody will be made an example soon' - Premier on Coronavirus rumours
Using the Opportunity to reiterate his Government's Computer Misuse and Cyber Crime (Amendment) Act of 2019 as necessary, the Premier says there is a possibility that the false messages and its content could destabilise the country economically and socially.
WhatsApp Rumours
"Every morning you wake up in this country you get four or five WhatsApp telling you all sorts of things, long on rumours short on facts. So we wanted to make sure that the whole diaspora of what we have been doing comes from all the officials," Hon Fahie noted at a press conference yesterday, Thursday, February 27, 2020.
He said the WhatsApp itself, was not the reason for the reaction, rather the dangerous content of messages that the government had to counteract and provide credible information.
"It's difficult to ever contain anything in the world now, because in one WhatsApp post, or one Facebook post saying whatever... whether it turns out to be factual or not, in the time that it is released can create havoc," Premier Fahie illustrated.
More Warnings
The Premier warned that people stop spreading false information and messages without facts and said that someone would be made an example soon.
Whilst unpopular amongst media watchdogs, section 14A of the Cybercrime act proposes criminalisation of anyone using a computer to send “grossly offensive” or “menacing” messages “for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience.”
The fines for that offence can reach as high as $500,000 and jail terms of up to 14 years.
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25 Responses to “'Somebody will be made an example soon' - Premier on Coronavirus rumours”
Secondly, I also feel we need to start being proactive rather than reactive. We need not be acting like China, see how that is working out. From the information that is circulating, Government knew who the person is and what country they were travelling from. For their loved ones sake and for everyone else safety they should have been placed in quarantine, no one would have know unless Government themselves have a leak.
Things done in secret always appears to be illegal or someone hiding something. We need to get our act together and consider the well-being of everyone. You have a right to be safe just as much as I.
It’s the same way China hid it and didn’t want it out Hence the reason it ended up spreading soo rapidly
I can understand the Sharing of the photo of the suspected case
But something like we all need to be made aware of
If there’s a suspected case we need to know
The info posted by the whistleblower said precisely what the Premier belatedly was forced to announce.....That, someone on the BVi displayed symptoms consistent with the Corona virus and had been quarantined.
As a result, the Gov has claimed to have sprung into reflex mode with overdue concern and long overdue safeguards. Supposedly.
Had China listened to young the Dr. Who is now dead, they virus would not have spread as much as it did. China also initially charge several doctors with spreading fear when in the end the Doctors were correct and guess where rhenintially published? ON SOCAIL MEDIA. YOU CAN KEEP THE OUBLIC IN THE DARK WHILE PROTECTING YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY.
They said 3 days for results why aren’t we being made aware of the results
Like the results are blank ??????