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Human Rights Based, Socially Responsible Use of Social Media [Code of Conduct for Responsible Social Media Use] Read in full Declaration and Other information: socialmedialanka.org

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#IDEI2025 : International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI)

Can you/we be satisfied with the state of ending impunity in Sri Lanka?
#EndImpunity #srilanka #EngageSMinSL

02.11.2025 08:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dangers of AI Intimacy | Who Will Ensure Protection?
YouTube video by Newsreel Asia Dangers of AI Intimacy | Who Will Ensure Protection?

Had a good (or perhaps the better word is disturbing!), and wide-ranging conversation with journalist, and documentary filmmaker Surabhi Singh on xAI's profoundly distressing technology, & related issues. | Dangers of AI Intimacy | Who Will Ensure Protection? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhjZ...

26.10.2025 03:16 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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At a program in #Batticaloa on #SMD, human rights, digital trends & the #OSA - MPs R. Shanakiyan, G. Srinesan, Dr. I. Srinath (ITAK) & K. Prabu (NPP) received the 2nd edition of the All shared positive feedback on its vision for a rights-based digital future.👉 shorturl.at/z9Ulq #EngageSMinSL #lka

07.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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2 one-day programs on Social Media Declaration (SMD), OSA global technological trends, and related rights including freedom of expression were held in Monaragala. More than 70 participants, including youth and government officials, took part in these programs. shorturl.at/eGDD2 #lka

29.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Submission on Amend the Online Safety Act No. 09 of 2024 - Social Media Declaration Prior to the current National People’s Power government coming to office, the present Prime Minister, Harini Amarasuriya, stated that the Online Safety Act (OSA) would be repealed in its entirety. How...

Submission on Amend the Online Safety Act No. 09 of 2024 👉 www.socialmedialanka.org/2025/09/12/s... #OSA #srilanka #lka #EngageSMinSL

12.09.2025 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The OSA (Online Safety Act) is a law that, under the guise of the word “safety,” can in fact eliminate the right to criticism.
Therefore, it must be repealed. #srilanka #OSA

04.09.2025 10:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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When code meets checkpoints: Lecture at Jaffna University At the invitation of Tamil members from Sampath Samarakoon’s Social Media Declaration (SMD) network, which is sui generis in Sri Lanka, spoke to around 150 undergraduate students from Univers…

At the invitation of Tamil members from Sampath Samarakoon‘s Social Media Declaration (SMD) network, which is sui generis in Sri Lanka, spoke to around 150 undergraduate students from University of Jaffna‘s....

Read in full:

BY @sanjanah.bsky.social sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/w...

02.09.2025 08:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Another major program in the series of activities linked to the Social Media Declaration(SMD) was held at the University of Jaffna on the 26th, spanning the whole day. The program consisted of two main parts. 👉 www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... #srilanka #lka #EngageSMinSL

29.08.2025 03:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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GNI Urges Human Rights Reforms to Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act - Global Network Initiative The Global Network Initiative (GNI) has issued a detailed set of recommendations to reform Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act (OSA) 2024, highlighting key concerns about freedom of expression, privacy, and...

Global Network Initiative (GNI) Urges Human Rights Reforms to Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act 👉 globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-urges-hu... #OSA #srilanka #lka #FOE

05.08.2025 05:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Social Media Declaration [SMD] | Version 2.0 👉 www.socialmedialanka.org
#srilanka #SocialMedia #EngageSMinSL
Info-graphics: GenAI

02.08.2025 10:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new sky, a new platform! Thanks to @sanjanah.bsky.social and @sampaths.bsky.social for introducing us to Bluesky at the SMD training #EngageSMinSL #DigitalFuture
@smdsrilanka.bsky.social

20.07.2025 03:53 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Expanding Teen Account Protections and Child Safety Features Today, we’re announcing a range of updates to bolster our efforts to protect young people from both direct and indirect harm.

Expanding Teen Account Protections and Child Safety Features about.fb.com/news/2025/07... #Meta #socialmedia #EngageSMinSL

24.07.2025 02:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ඉල්ලීමක්!!

#srilanka #GenAI #EngageSMinSL #SocialMedia

04.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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එබැවින්, #Gaza බලා ගමන් ගන්නා Madleen නෞකාවේ සිටින ධෛර්වන්ත මිනිසුන් සහ ගැහැණුන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් ඔබේ හඩ අවදි කළ යුතුමයි!

හදිසි ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගැනීම සඳහා දැවැන්ත සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරය සමග එක්වන්න! සම්බන්ධ වන්න 👉 shorturl.at/Gthcj
#FreedomFlotilla #srilanka

06.06.2025 03:26 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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“We are seeing a systematic starvation of 2 million people. The world cannot be silent bystanders, Every single one of us has a moral obligation to do everything we can to fight for a free Palestine.” Greta Thunberg

#FreedomFlotilla #Gaza
📣 Urgent Action - 👉 shorturl.at/Gthcj

06.06.2025 04:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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“නිහඩව ඉන්න එක මධ්‍යස්ථවීමක් නොවේ, ඒක වරදට හවුල් වීමක්….” නිදහස උදෙසා Madleen නෞකාව ගාසා තීරයට යාත්‍රා කරයි. [Audio Overview Generate by NotebookLM] ඊශ්‍රායලය විසින් ගාසා තීරය ඇතුලු ප්‍රදේශයන් හී සිදුකරන සියලු අවහිර කිරීම් මෙන්ම ජන සංහාරයට විරුද්ධව, සාමකාමී විරෝධතාවයක් ලෙස ගාසා තීරයට මානුෂීය…

[With Audio Overview/in Sinhala #NotebookLM ]

“නිහඩව ඉන්න එක මධ්‍යස්ථවීමක් නොවේ, ඒක වරදට හවුල් වීමක්….” නිදහස උදෙසා Madleen නෞකාව ගාසා තීරයට යාත්‍රා කරයි. vikalpa.org/article/44864 #Gaza #justice #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege #AllEyesOnDeck

05.06.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Abolish Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) #PTA
YouTube video by Sampath Samarakoon Abolish Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) #PTA

A youth group(Tamil Medium) dedicated to digital security and digital rights advocates for the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, asserting that it should not be replaced by any subsequent legislation.

[Submission]Audio Overview (AO) - English - by #NotebookLM youtube.com/watch?v=MSgY...

02.06.2025 10:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Social Media Declaration [SMD 2.0] | Generative AI | Ethics | Socially Responsibility | Human Rights

#WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD2025 #srilanka #EngageSMinSL [More info; www.socialmedialanka.org ]

03.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The weaponisation of the Online Safety Act by Cargills Bank I’ve written extensively, since the time the Online Safety Act (OSA) was in Bill stage, against its implementation, and the enduring potential for the law’s weaponisation in Sri Lanka. …

I’ve written extensively, since the time the Online Safety Act (OSA) was in Bill stage, against its implementation, and the enduring potential for the law’s weaponisation in Sri Lanka. Read in full: sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/t... BY @sanjanah.bsky.social #cargilsbank #srilanka

08.04.2025 09:17 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The protection of the victim’s #privacy is a fundamental responsibility of the media. We must rally against media that neglects this responsibility. #Media #srilanka #Women #EngageSMinSL

11.03.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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International Women's Day 2025

#srilanka #WomensDay2025 #IWD2025
[More information: socialmedialanka.org] #EngageSMinSL

08.03.2025 17:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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International Women's Day 2025

#srilanka #WomensDay2025 #IWD2025
[More information: socialmedialanka.org ] #EngageSMinSL

08.03.2025 17:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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SLCERT reports over 17,000 social media incidents last year - Breaking News | Daily Mirror Over 17,000 social media incidents were reported last year, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said. ..

Over 17,000 social media incidents were reported last year, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said. Read in full: www.dailymirror.lk/breaking-new... #srilanka #EngageSMinSL #SocialMedia

28.02.2025 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On January 29, the Collective for Social Media Declaration (CSMD) sent a letter to the President AKD, highlighting serious concerns over the lack of public disclosure and transparency regarding the proposed amendments to the Online Safety Act

#srilanka #freedomofexpression #privacy #OSA

17.02.2025 06:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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නීතිපතිවරයා විසින් පසුගිය ජනවාරි 27 වනදා අපරාධ පරික්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට යොමුකළ ලිපියේ නම් සඳහන් සැකකරුවන්,
මාධ්‍යවේදී ලසන්ත වික්‍රමතුංග ඝාතනයට සම්බන්ධ සැකකරුවන් නොවන බව නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත්කරමින් පවසයි. 👇
#srilanka #lka #Lasantha

07.02.2025 19:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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වසරකට පෙර, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුව හදිසියේම, ඉතිහාසයේ නොවූ විරූ ආකාරයකින් මානව හිමිකම් තර්ජනයට ලක් කරන නීතියක් සම්මත කරගත්තේය. අර්ථවත් සාකච්ඡාවකින් තොරව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවදී, මාර්ගගත ක්‍රමවල සුරක්ෂිතතාවය පිළිබද පනත (OSA) නමින් වූ පනත සම්මත කර ගත්තේය. Read in full: www.vikalpa.org/article/44472 #OSA #srilanka BY @sanjanah.bsky.social

10.02.2025 08:31 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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පසුගිය රජය සමයේ සම්මත කළ මාර්ගගත ක්‍රමවල සුරක්ෂිතතාව පිළිබඳ පනතට නව සංශෝධන කිහිපයක් ගෙන ඒමට වත්මන් රජය තීරණය කර ඇතැයි නීතිපතිවරයා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට දැනුම්දී තිබේ. sinhala.adaderana.lk/news/206238 #srilanka #OSA

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OSA ඇතුලු ප්‍රධන අංශ 3ක් පිළිබදව ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ අවධානයට ලක්කරමින් CSMD විසින් ලිපියක් යවන ලද්දේ පසුගිය 29 දා ය.👇 (Read in full: shorturl.at/eQaTj #lka

05.02.2025 05:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Concerns around the lack of clarity regarding policy reform, and digitalisation projects [Letter to Pres; Anura Kumara Disanayake] Read in full 👉 (S/T/E) shorturl.at/Oi2ki
#srilanka #eNICsrilanka #Privacy

02.02.2025 02:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

OSA ඇතුළු ඩිජිටල්කරණයේ ව්‍යාපෘති තුන ගැන විනිවිදභාවයක් අවශ්‍යයි - සමජ සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශනය සඳහා වන සාමුහිකය wedabima.lk/union-news/l... by WedabimaL #srilanka #EngageSMinSL

01.02.2025 06:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශනය සදහා වන එකතුව' විසින් eINC Project ඇතුලු ප්‍රධාන කරුණු 3ක් පිළිබද අවධනයට ලක්කරමින්, පසුගිය 29 වනදා ජනාධිපති Anura Kumara Disanayake වෙත ලිපියක් යවන ලද අතර එම ලිපිය පිළිබද අනිද්දා පුවත්පත ද සිය පුවත්පතේ ප්‍රවෘත්තියක් පළ කර ඇත. #srilanka 👇

31.01.2025 09:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@smdsrilanka is following 2 prominent accounts