By President Ranil Wickremesinghe, largely known for not interfering with the media, seems to head towards a tough line on social media controle .The President speaking to newspaper editors and news directors of electronic media at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo said that the government is working to introduce an Act similar to the Telecommunications and Social Media Act currently used in Singapore to regulate social media platforms including YouTube and Facebook. The implementation of the Singaporean act in Sri Lanka has been largely been criticized by social media activists in SriLanka The President said that although there are laws in Sri Lanka for newspapers and electronic media, there is no such legal framework for the regulation of social media in the country and Singapore’s act needs to be studied for possible implementation.
