At the top of the news, we told you about the passage of the Cybercrime Bill of 2020 in today's House Meeting.
It seeks to create prosecutable criminal offenses for crimes committed with the use of the internet. In one part of the bill, the drafters were attempting to ensure that there are repercussions for any digital attempt to unfairly malign or injure someone's reputation.
While he was explaining what the bill entails, Education Minister Patrick Faber used the opportunity to heap scorn on the Facebook page, NBZ Live, which suggested some shady business with Government's proposed distance learning plan.
NBZ published a supposed invoice from one of the companies that the Government is working with to procure thousands of computer tablets for high schoolers to use. The invoice appeared legit, and it were real, it would have given credibility to the NBZ Live post. The problem is that it has since been debunked as forged.
Here's the Education Minister's harsh put-down:
