plans. The national technical centre and operations room would give the state the tools to monitor and respond at scale. And the awareness campaigns would attempt to win hearts and minds, encouraging people to internalise the new rules rather than simply fear them. But all of this is still in the proposal stage. The Cabinet has not yet announced the amendments as enacted law, and no timetable has been set. There is a long road from a committee report to a final legal text, and along the way there will likely be debates in parliament, pushback from civil society, and…

Imagine waking up one ordinary Friday to discover that your name is being dragged across the internet, that strangers are calling you a traitor, that your country’s embassy has had to issue a statement about you, and that thousands of people are now asking who you really are. That is what happened to two men, Mr Saiful and Mr Dino, even though the story at the center of the outrage did not appear to be true. They had reportedly been accused of making a secret visit to Singapore, a visit that was described in social media posts as a suspicious…