WAN-IFRA reports:

Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of Media Unlimited, belives that one of the reasons behind the Minister’s Act could be “pressure from traditional media that haven’t kept up with the times”. Abu-Fadil also added that traditional media outlets “see their revenues dwindling and advertising dollars moving online and are putting pressure on the government to secure their piece of turf.”

Read the full article, “Online freedoms threatened in Lebanon.”