She has ridiculed the tweets .. The owner of a lawsuit to block Twitter in Kuwait denies seeking fame

Mahmoud Kafrawi - Kuwait

A lawsuit filed by a Kuwaiti lawyer demanding the blocking of the country's popular blogging site Twitter has sparked widespread reactions among social media pioneers who launched a feature titled "Blocking Twitter_Kuwait" which took the top spot in Kuwait on Wednesday.

The lawyer, Anwar Al-Jabali, who turned overnight to the focus of discussions of thousands of Kuwaitis, said that she did not seek behind this initiative to achieve fame, as evidence of spreading the news without mentioning her name at the beginning, stressing that its goal is to the public interest and to protect the Kuwaiti society from mock accounts And serious rumors circulating in Twitter.

Al-Jabali denied in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that she sought to muzzle and restrict freedom of expression, but demanded that the government deter what it says are fake accounts promoting false rumors and news.

Thousands of tweets involved in the tag dealt with some irony, revolving around what would happen if Twitter were effectively shut down by court order in response to the lawsuit.

Thousands of the site's pioneers will return to their previous focus by sitting in the diwaniyas in leisure time, meaning that most of the country's diwaniyas need more furniture to accommodate those numbers, as well as their return to the consolidation of family and social relations, which have decreased interest compared to spending long hours On smartphones.

I was surprised by some tweets from the move, which will make them search for another alternative site, after the closure of Twitter, which is a breather for leisure.

Aside from cynicism and humor, the singers made harsh criticism of the complainant, who remained anonymous until Thursday morning as a result of the publication of the news anonymously.

Critics, including many lawyers, saw the lawsuit as an aggression against freedom of opinion and expression because Twitter and social media are generally an outlet for expressing opinion.Therefore, it should not be withheld under any pretext, whether by saying it is a spoiler of society, a negative phenomenon, or even because of abuse by some.

They stressed that the treatment is to raise awareness about the need to investigate the correct information from its sources, and away from the actions, words and deeds that offend others and which constitute a crime punishable by law.

Lawyer Nawaf Sari said in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that Twitter is not an absolute platform but is restricted, as there are so-called cybercrime defined by law and abused is subject to punishment, which sometimes up to five years or more depending on the nature of the offense. In addition to local censorship, there is international control exercised by the site's management by banning the abuser or deleting fake accounts.

In May and June 2018, the Twitter administration suspended some 70 million fake accounts. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, the Ministry of Interior's cybercrime department registered about 2,000 lawsuits between January and October 2018 against account holders on charges of defamation, fraud, extortion and piracy.

Article 3 of Law No. 63 of 2015 on combating information technology crimes stipulates that “anyone who uses the information network or uses any means of information technology to threaten or blackmail a natural or legal person to compel him to do or refrain from an act shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years. Years, and a fine of not less than five thousand dinars and not exceeding twenty thousand, or one of the two penalties. "

According to Sari, if the judiciary cannot refuse to register the case because it is a guaranteed right for all, the court has several options for refusal. These include the possibility of considering the case as a stone on the freedom of opinion guaranteed or the establishment of irrelevant, or the requirement to reside in the country where the headquarters of Twitter, or the absence of direct interest.