Last month the States approved in principle updates to the law to allow stricter regulation of online communication carried out using websites such as Facebook, twitter and web-logs, and introduce tougher penalties against abusive posters or trolls, including unlimited fines and up to two years in prison.
But Neil McMurray, a blogger for the Voice for Children website – which has campaigned against child abuse cover ups in Jersey – said that the new laws go too far and could be used to suppress free speech.
The proposition to introduce tougher cyber-bullying laws was lodged by Senator Philip Ozouf
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