Matthew Nyindam, a ranking member of Parliament’s Information and Communications Committee, has called out the Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, Sam George, following his announcement that his ministry is working on a proposal that would require photo ID verification before accessing porn websites.
According to Matthew Nyindam, Sam George must prioritise reducing data costs and improving digital access rather than focusing on photo ID verification for accessing porn websites.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story on Thursday, June 4, Matthew Nyindam argued, “We must get serious in this country. People queued to vote for the NDC and for the minister to come and serve them better. We have a lot of concerns under his ministry, and I will appeal to him to focus more on how best we can reduce data, how best we can make phone calls affordable and move away from the kind of things that he’s been saying”.
“Today, he goes out there, and he says that he’s trying to bring a proposal to Parliament or even Cabinet that adults who want to access pornographic websites identify themselves with their ID cards. What are the benefits to the ordinary Ghanaian?
I want to go and watch a pornographic film somewhere, and you, as a minister, your concern is that you want to identify the person who is going to that website. And what is the benefit to the ordinary Ghanaian who queued to vote for him?
The MP insisted that the government should instead focus on pressing digital priorities such as data pricing, job creation, and their flagship programmes like the “1 million coders” initiative.
“The young men who voted for him, the one million coders they’ve promised- how far has he been able to do that?” he asked.
He further cited and criticised Sam George’s delays in the rollout of promised legislative reforms, saying, “He has promised to bring 15 bills to Parliament; as we speak, not even a single bill is in Parliament.”
His comments follow, Sam George, who has revealed that the Ministry is working on a proposal that would require photo ID verification before accessing porn websites.
According to Sam George, the proposal is intended to prevent children from being exposed to explicit online content.
He disclosed that the policy is currently being prepared for Cabinet consideration.
Sam George added that the policy will require users to provide either a driver’s licence or a national identification card before gaining access to adult or porn websites.
He disclosed that the United Kingdom’s age-verification regime for adult websites as a model Ghana could adopt to strengthen child protection measures.
Speaking at the 4th Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family, Values and Sovereignty, Sam George stated, “We’re working on going to Cabinet on that to make sure that before you access any X-rated site, you must put either your driver’s licence or your national ID card so that we know who you are and who is going to that site to prevent children from being exposed to such content”.
“Today in the United Kingdom, for you to access a pornographic website, you need to put your driver’s licence for them to be able to determine that you are 18 years”, he stated.
“This is the real threat. Because when a child is oversexualised at an early age, it affects their development, it affects their thinking, it affects even their morality and their values and their standards,” he said.
“When my colleagues and I in Ghana introduced the Family Values Bill, one of our key arguments has been that we’re fighting for the innocence of Ghanaian children because our children must be protected,” he said.
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