The Record
January 17, 2023
Updated at 1:10 pm EST with comment from a United Kingdom Foreign Office spokesperson.
China has proposed that a new international convention on cybercrime should criminalize the “dissemination of false information” during negotiations in Vienna about the provisions of the United Nations treaty.
The proposal is likely to be contested by Western states who will see it as a threat to human rights standards and an attempt by the Chinese Communist Party to legitimize its controls, and those of like-minded governments, over what people can see and share online.