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Dictating the Internet:
The legal trends and emblematic cases highlighted in this paper
and the recommendations offered to address related human rights abuses
should therefore have relevance beyond the region.
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New York Times, 3 October 2019, Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/technology/
facebook-europe.html; While this judgment crucially held that national courts are obliged to
ensure their decisions are in line with international law, how it will be enforced in practice raises
concerns that this judgment may negatively impact on freedom of expression and information
online, particularly with respect to extraterritorial application on information shared between
jurisdictions. Similar concerns are engaged by laws promulgated in Southeast Asia which allow for
extraterritorial application such as Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation
Act.