The decision came during a meeting for the committee which discussed punishments for cyber-crime, as part of the law draft to counter cyber-crime. The law defines a site administrator as someone responsible for organizing, managing, following or maintaining a website or several websites on the internet. Articles 29 and 30 of the new law witnessed debate regarding who bares responsibility within government to apply the law. The law comes in the wake of a suicide – or attempted suicide – trend by several teenagers in Egypt after playing the notorious ‘Blue Whale’ game. The victim’s older siblings took to social media, warning people about the Blue Whale game, which they blamed for their brother’s death.

Source: Egypt Independent April 11, 2018 13:07 UTC