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ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship FOTW (DEMOCRATIC STATUS OF THE COUNTRY) FOTNSpace (DIGITAL SPACE STATUS) Digital & Online Freedom Status Democratic Status of the Country 100 100 90 90 80 80 70 SIN 40 Nb of Events 30 THA CAM 20 VIE LAO MYA 10 0 2020 Singapore July 2021 Year 2022 Myanmar February Philippines May Cambodia July Vietnam April Malaysia November Thailand August Indonesia February 2024 Freedom House, Explore the Map, (n.d.), available at: https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2023 SIN 50 IND CAM 40 THA VIE 20 10 0 2023 MAL PHI 60 30 Nb of Events Index Score MAL 50 Index Score 70 IND PHI 60 MYA 2020 2021 2022 2023 Singapore July Myanmar February Philippines May Cambodia July Vietnam April Malaysia November Thailand August Year Freedom House, Explore the Map, (n.d.), available at: https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2023 Indonesia February 2024 LEGEND 70-100: Free (F) 40-69: Partial Free (PF) 0-39: Not Free (NF) Elections Illegitimate coup Media and PressFREEDOM Freedom Status RSF (MEDIA STATUS) 180 160 LAO CAM 140 PHI SIN Index Score 120 IND THA 100 80 MAL HIGH MEDIA FREEDOM 60 40 20 Nb of Events LOW MEDIA FREEDOM VIE MYA 0 2020 2021 2022 2023 Myanmar February Philippines May Cambodia July Vietnam April Malaysia November Thailand August Please note that Freedom House and Reporters sans frontières adopt a distinctive method for their yearly assessments. Each assessment corresponds to events from the preceding year. For instance, the decline shown for Myanmar in the 2022 assessment is due to the Illegitimate coup in February 2021. Year Singapore July Reporters sans frontières, Classement, (n.d.), available at: https://rsf.org/fr/classement Indonesia February 2024 LEGEND 0: High media freedom status Elections 22 180: Low media freedom status Illegitimate coup Fig. D: Data visualisation of Democratic Status, Digital Space and Online Freedom, and Press and Media & Press Freedom Ratings for ASEAN countries acknowledged in this report. Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia

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Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia March 2024

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Digital Rights
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Internet Restrictions

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MANUSHYA

Date Published: Mar 8, 2024

Abstract: Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia March 2024 Whether we like it or not, we are living through a pivotal moment for the future of human rights. This includes the issue of our digital rights, and the question of our online freedoms. In places like Southeast Asia, where the majority of its peoples are experiencing immense threats to their online and offline freedoms, at the hands of opportunistic governments and corporations, this is especially prevalent. The digital space has become an integral part of human life, and is still growing in its influence over our world. Accordingly, if our freedoms in the digital space are endangered, our freedoms overall are endangered as well.

It is understandable to feel powerless while possessing this knowledge. But it is not enough to just know about the forces acting against our human rights, and understand that they are dangerous. If we truly want to create a safer, more equitable, more liberated world - which we all know, deep down, is possible - we must understand these forces, and act accordingly. We must equip ourselves with knowledge about what governments, corporations, and other powers that be are doing, alongside demanding our rights to freedom. The powers that be have weaponised the online and digital space, as well as the law, against the people that these things are supposed to serve and protect. It is our right to protect ourselves with research, knowledge, advocacy, and the power of the people. When we understand the powers we are up against, fighting back will become less daunting.

This is what our report, titled Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia, is for. Join us in powering ourselves with knowledge, in order to compel ourselves to action!

As always, our work is rooted in decolonial, feminist, intersectional values, with historically marginalised people at the centre. Thus, this work was a collaboration between a coalition of groups oriented in these values: ALTSEAN-Burma, Cambodian Center for Human Rights, ELSAM, Free Expression Myanmar, Foundation for Media Alternatives, ILGA Asia, Manushya Foundation, The Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network, SAFEnet, Viet Tan, and Women’s Peace Network. What is the ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship? The ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship was established in 2020, by human rights and digital rights activists from Southeast Asia, on a mission to decolonize digital rights and restore our online democracies.

Together, we stand in solidarity with one another, with people from the Global Majority, resisting and pushing back against authoritarian governments and complicit tech companies.

We tell our realities from the ground, and we develop solutions together.

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