Why people are so scared to speak?
Peter Noorlander state that ‘a liberal and empowering legal regime will allow media to publish hard-hitting investigative reports and fulfill their function as watchdog of democratic society without fear of legal sanction, thus helping to make governments more accountable’.
But the government does not do so to survive. They think it will be difficult for them to stay in power if something bad comes to the fore. And they will lose their balance in front of the people. So they follow the exact opposite theory so that no one can bring out any bad report or information. They don’t think that it is possible to bring their reputation and fame by resolving the bad things.
In Bangladesh, Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer, had published an article criticizing the shortage of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers and had shared some cartoons about corruption in the government’s response to the pandemic on the Social Media. And he was detained under Digital Security Act (DSA), died in police custody on February 25,2021.
But if the government had accepted the criticisms and resolved it at that time, would have increased the popularity of the government, but instead of doing so, government has stopped speaking out against it by enacting Digital Security Act.
Even they refrained from reporting important things which would have been good for them.
