The Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> announced regulations<\/b> against abusive lawsuits<\/b>, while calling for measures<\/b> to identify<\/b> those behind anonymous toxicity<\/b>.<\/p>\n
On the Council of Ministers<\/b> agenda was the shielding of freedom of expression, with prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> presenting the new regulations of the Ministry of Justice<\/b> aimed at protecting journalists<\/b>, activists and citizens from the unfounded and abusive lawsuits known internationally as SLAPP<\/b>. <\/p>\n
The prime minister stressed that in Greece, freedom of speech is fully guaranteed, but the new legislative framework comes to strengthen the legal barriers<\/b> against those who use the judicial route as a means of pressure and silencing of opposing views<\/b>.<\/p>\n
However, Mitsotakis<\/b> also chose to open the debate on the “natural counterweight<\/b>” to this protection, raising the issue of anonymity on the internet<\/b> and the pungent toxicity<\/b> that often accompanies it. <\/p>\n
Addressing the minister responsible, he stressed the need to consider how politicians and public officials can be protected from slanderous publications and accounts that remain in the dark<\/b>. As he said, many times the aggrieved parties seek legal action, but are faced with a “wall” of anonymity<\/b>, as it is impossible to identify the real persons behind specific websites or social media profiles<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister’s statement<\/b>:<\/p>\n
We will also discuss in the Cabinet new Ministry of Justice regulations, under which journalists, activists, citizens, will now be protected from unfounded abusive lawsuits, known as SLAPPs.<\/p>\n
I am opening a parenthesis here, outside the Cabinet’s agenda. It is good that at some point we, as politicians, should also look at how we are protected from the anonymous vile toxicity of the internet when we seek to potentially take criminal action, should we see fit, against websites or alleged accounts and we run into a wall because no one can trace who is actually behind those accounts. That is something, Minister, that we need to look at.<\/p>\n
I think it is the natural counterweight to what we are proposing and legislating today. Because our goal is to shield the good of free expression, while, of course, continuing to strengthen, as I said, the legal counterbalances against the vilification of anybody. But anyone who moves in Greece knows very well that in our country par excellence, freedom of expression is fully protected and guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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