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Blockage of LeN: Censorship is a regressive condition in the modern world -IMA
(Lanka-e-News
- 15.Nov.2017, 9.35AM) The Internet Media Action (IMA –
www.imalanka.org) is concerned about the blockage of the news portal
Lanka e News (LeN: www.lankaenews.com) since last 8th of November 2017
making inaccessible to the LeN website within Sri Lanka through all the
broadband service providers including Sri Lanka Telecom, one of the
leading internet providers(ISPs) in the country.
Also, the IMA strongly condemned the decision to censor, ban, and block
and generate technical complications on any internet publication and we
firmly opposed the ban imposed on the Lanka e News.
The actions to censor and restrict the freedom of information, speech
and press are not sustained longer in the modern digitalized world and
if the current good governance government would impose restrictions on
the freedom of expression, the government would become a ‘regressive
institution’ in the digitalized, free internet society.
The official statement about the difficulty of accessing to the Lanka e
News website and issues related to the matter should be made by the
Department of Government Information, the Ministry of Mass Media and the
Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) of Sri Lanka. If not, we
believe, that the good governance government is now pushing aside the
discourse on open governance and democracy in Sri Lanka.
The other fact is that instead of being sensitive to the criticism of
government policy in the internet sources, the government actions to
manipulate information, indicate the characters of the Rajapaksa regime
in the ‘good governance’. It is not worth the ‘good governance’
principles. Similarly, democracy and media freedom in the society are
threatened through the actions occurred in a country caused by no legal
reason or a court order.
The good governance government, which came into power on 8th January
2015 lifted of the ban over five websites, including Lanka e News and
Lanka News web signifying a way forward and now blocking the website
again, it demonstrates the precondition of fearsome future.
Hence, the blockage of Lanka e news is a serious warning of the
government to the freedom of the press and media and internet and
democracy of the country and it further clarified the allegations made
by the present regime on publications on the internet.
We, thereby, call upon the government to eliminate the online censorship
and blocking to access the Lanka e News website and ensure freedom of
the press and media and internet and to be committed to ‘good
governance’ and not to be ‘isolated governors’ in the digitized world
and to show the government’s eagerness to the digital world through its
actions.
Sampath Samarakoon | Convener(IMA)
@sampathslk
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