A friend recently reviewed the Draft Cyber Security Bill 2025 and asked a simple question: Is this bill about security or control?
It is clear that the government aims to stifle and criminalize free speech on social media. The NDC has a history of criminalizing free speech in print media, and it took the NPP, under President Kufuor, to abolish the criminal libel law in 2001.
Now, the NDC is back, seeking to gag and control the new frontier of vibrant social media. People should be free to express themselves under the liberties guaranteed by our constitution.
The police and the courts can be adequately equipped to handle criminal activities online and civil suits, but we should not create a new police force under a ministerial authority to harass the youth and the next generation.
The Minister of Communications should focus on improving poor mobile networks and reducing expensive data costs. Imagine if Hon. Sam George were in opposition when this bill was drafted; he would have held six press conferences by now and appeared on every TV station to protest. My brother Sam George, what happened? Now that you are a minister, do you no longer share the same values as the youth?
Let us all say no to bad laws that attempt to control our lives through this Cyber Security Bill 2025.
