After the high passage of the Press Law draft from the House of Representatives in an exceptional session, we should have stopped to take our breath from this speed and read the articles calmly and deep thinking away from the effects surrounding the pass of the law.
For honesty, the bill in it is one of the many positives that I cannot talk about in this simple space, but it is in general to “try hard” to keep pace with the development of the accelerated media in this period of time, as human phones are through all kinds of applications of communication that provide information, news, report, analysis, advertising and everything that comes to your mind or does not occur to your mind.
The truth is that the draft law is considered late, at a dangerous stage that is no longer a realistic control, and I remember in the time of old books and magazines, when the returnees from other countries carry books, newspapers and magazines that do not reach us and in which news is not what can be published in our country, and therefore she was welcome .. and smuggling sometimes.
Today, in a wide open world, I wonder like a large percentage of people, how will this law be governed by the chaos of the social media, and in what means the “Instagram, Tek Tok or others” will be closed, and what about the accounts that work from the outside and are not known behind it? These matters did not find her in a preliminary reading of the law any tools that you can deal with, knowing that a large percentage of these accounts has a good follow -up, just as the owners of the media such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and officials of these means will not respond to the requests of states to withhold a specific account or prevent him from appearing in an area and allowing him in other areas, so what are we doing?
The problem that I see in this law is that it remains a reaction to a future action that we may know some of its details today, and it may appear in other patterns and forms in the future, because the law is trying to control the perpetrator of the crime by imposing censorship, and in the event of the violation it is punished, while it has not found an innovative solution to deal with these accounts that really harm the homeland and the citizen, just like smoking, drinking alcohol and drug use.
There are countries in the region that were able to create reasonable solutions to combat the crime of washing minds and spreading sedition among the people of the country, and created electronic armies working around the clock in response, mobilization and redirect public opinion to the truth, and they used effective means, whether by responding to the Marjafin with the argument and proof, or by changing the trend to other topics, or even by reporting to these accounts and publications to close.
Today, we cannot control full control over the cyberspace, and whoever believes is an actor, he does not live on the ground, and therefore it was necessary to discuss the creation of an e -national army, an educated and conscious national who can enter this war with unconventional weapons, represented in culture, rivalry and the ability to respond, and I do not think that it is a defect to create such armies, they are already present without advertising, so we do not initiate the same weapons and use the same weapons. With our capabilities from national cadres and appropriate financing, because it is a war that needs real financing – unbearable – and then we return and re -read the draft law … and to talk the rest.
Captain – Editor -in -chief of the English newspaper “Daily Tribune”
