PROHIBITED CONTENT AS PER ELECTRONIC AND POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS (online content).

 

Any of the following shall be considered as prohibited content for purposes of these Regulations:

1. Sexuality and Decency

(a) content that motivates, promotes or facilitates publishing  or exchanging child pornography, pornography, explicit sex acts, nudity and vice, save for related scenes approved by the body responsible for film classification and certification;

(b) content that depicts, motivates, promotes or facilitates publishing or exchanging of homosexuality, adultery, prostitution, sex crimes,rape or attempted rape and statutory rape, or bestiality;

(c) content that motivates, supports or promotes practices or trading of sexual or immoral goods such as movies, photos, drawings, books, stories, sexual games, toys and related things.

2. Personal Privacy and Respect to Human Dignity

(a) content that impersonates or claims status of others for fraudulent purposes;

(b) content that insults, slanders and defames other persons, or exposes news, photos or comments related to a person’s privacy, or publication of private information regardless of whether the information is true where publishing the same may harm the person;

(c) content that motivates or promotes phone tapping, espionage, data theft, tracking, recording or intercepting communications or conversation without right; and

(d) content that promotes, motivates or encourages practices of witchcraft, enchantment, or sorcery.

3. Public Security, Violence and National Safety

(a) content against the State and public order including content that aims to or publishes information, news, statements or rumors for the purpose of ridicule, abuse or harming the reputation, prestige or status of the United Republic, the flag of the United Republic,the national anthem or the United Republic’s symbol, national anthem or its logos;

(b) content that calls for or motivates, promotes or provokes non-compliance to the laws and regulations;

(c) content that is involved in planning, organizing, promoting or calling for demonstrations, marches or the like which may lead to public disorder;

(d) content that would threaten the security of the United Republic or affect public order;

(e) content that includes news of official confidential communications or military affairs;

(f) content that would harm the national currency or lead to confusion about the economic condition in the country;

(g) content that incites, encourages or enables the commission of a crime against the United Republic or its citizens;

(h) content that is likely to threaten the stability of the United Republic or its safety, unity or security, or harming national unity or social peace;

(i) content that portrays violence, whether physical, verbal or psychological, that can upset, alarm and offend viewers and cause

undue fear among the audience or encourage imitation;

(j) content that portrays sadistic practices and torture, explicit and excessive imageries of injury and aggression, and of blood or scenes of executions or of people clearly being killed;

(k) content that causes annoyance, threatens harm or evil, encourages or incites crime or leads to public disorder or that may threaten national security or public health and safety;

(l) content which advocates hate propaganda or promotes genocide or hatred against an identifiable group;

(m) content that promotes or favours what would raise sedition, hatred or racism or sectarianism or harming national unity or social peace or disturb the public order or public morals;

4. Criminal Activities and Illegal Trade Activities

(a) content that motivates, promotes or facilitates illicit drugs, criminal acts and skills including content that calls for, promotes or provides information about how to carry out acts of crime or felony or contributes to or facilitates carrying out or supporting the same such as theft, fraud, robbery, forgery, faking, bribery, killing, suicide, blackmail, threat, rape, commercial cheating and breaching the properties of others, abduction, evasion from application of law, money laundering, smuggling prohibited content and other crimes punishable by the law;

(b) content that promotes or contributes to trading with drugs and mind affecting substances and the manner of using or manufacturing the same or obtaining drugs or facilitating their circulation in circumstances that are not legally authorized;

(c) content that motivates, promotes or facilitates trading in prohibited or restricted goods, commodities or services in the United Republic, including illicit drugs, prostitution, or goods that require licence from the competent authorities and are being promoted or circulated without authorization from the competent authorities;

(d) content that promotes gambling and similar activities such as bets and lottery and those related to electronic gambling activities;

(e) content that motivates, promotes or facilitates terrorist groups or any illegal group, association, organization or body;

(f) content that publishes methods of making fire or explosive devices or any other tools used in terrorist acts.

5. Healthy and Public Safety

(a) content of health establishments, medical and pharmaceutical practices in violation of the laws;

(b) content that includes health advertisements in violation of Cabinet resolutions concerning health advertisements;

(c) content that is used in promoting or trading pharmaceuticals that are issued against prescription and to provide the same without asking for the medical prescription;

(d) content that promotes medicine and medical products that are prohibited or unlicensed including dietary supplements, weight loss products, weight increase and unlicensed cosmetic pills and creams

6. Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

(a) content that infringes the rights of intellectual property such as providing and publishing movies, photos, drawings, books, electronic programs and games, encrypted TV and radio channels and other intellectual property rights without permission from right owner;

(b) content that provides information, tools and methods aiming to infringing intellectual property rights and penetrating the protection means used for protecting such rights such as decoding movies and coded TV channels and operation of copied magnetic diskettes and copied electronic programs and games and deactivation of protection systems designed exclusively for combating piracy;

7. Respect to Religion and Personal Beliefs

(a) content which contains or promotes offending, defaming, insulting, ridiculing or violating any of the religions or any of its rites, sanctities or divine books, or interfering with freedom to practice one's religion by violence or threat;

(b) content that motivates, promotes or facilitates incitement, or ridicule, hatred against a certain religious belief or expression that motivates, promotes or facilitates religious subjugation or apostasy;

(c) content that would make any form of discrimination and provoke hate speech or inciting tribal or religious prejudices with intent to incite hatred between individuals and groups;

(d) content that exploits religion to disbelief individuals or groups by using one of the methods of expression or using any of the means in order to achieve special interests or illegal purposes;

8. Public Information that may cause public havoc and disorder

(a) content that promotes, advocates, encourages, or makes available instructions and guidance on illegal activities such as bomb-making, illegal drug production or counterfeit products;

(b) circulating or making available information with regards possible terrorist attacks, droughts, weather forecasts or occurrence of natural calamities without the approval of the respective authorities;

(c) content with information with regards to the outbreak of a deadly or contagious diseases in the country or elsewhere without the approval of the respective authorities;

(d) circulating or making available information with regards to promotion of medical drugs and general medical products not approved by respective authorities.

9. Use of bad languages and Disparaging Words Content that uses bad language, such as the use of disparaging or abusive words which is calculated to offend an individual or a group of persons, crude references words, in any language commonly used in the United Republic, which are considered obscene or profane including crude references to sexual intercourse and sexual organs, and hate speech;

10. False, Untrue, Misleading Content

Content that is false, untrue, misleading which is likely to mislead or deceive the public unless where it is clearly pre-stated that the content isa satire, parody or fiction; and where it is preceded by a statement that the content is not factual.