Research Article
Legal Perspective of the Internet Hoax
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.26-1-2019.2283207, author={B Pratama and D Mutiara and M F Broto}, title={Legal Perspective of the Internet Hoax}, proceedings={The 1st Workshop on Multimedia Education, Learning, Assessment and its Implementation in Game and Gamification in conjunction with COMDEV 2018, Medan Indonesia, 26th January 2019, WOMELA-GG}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={WOMELA-GG}, year={2019}, month={4}, keywords={hoax information country}, doi={10.4108/eai.26-1-2019.2283207} }- B Pratama
D Mutiara
M F Broto
Year: 2019
Legal Perspective of the Internet Hoax
WOMELA-GG
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.26-1-2019.2283207
Abstract
The hoax is a global issue that must be face by many countries today. Hoaxes does not recognize the condition of a country whether the country is developed, developing or least developed country. As long as a country is connected by an Internet network and have many users on social media, hoax issues are inevitable, this condition brought many countries to the same level playing field with different set of readiness. The urgency to address hoax issues, has led this paper to examine the effectiveness of regulation as a safety fence to regulate informational rights. In so, arising basic question about what is hoax, and how to regulate it? The aim of this research is to analyzeregulation regarding hoax. This research is using doctrinal method with conceptual, theoretical, and comparative approaches. We found some of interesting funding, such as: terminology discourse, policy approach, and influenced factors as an actor of information diffusions. With this paper findings, we hope that hoax issue can be regulate more effective in the future
