mechanism to identify source of content and compels internet cafes to install surveillance cameras to record and archive activities inside the internet cafe, respectively. Four, interference with the right to freedom of information which leads to illegality. The applicants are greatly disturbed by regulation 14 which establishes a mandatory registration scheme. Five, arbitrariness. It is argued on part of the applicants that regulation 4 (b), which allows the Authority to take action against the non-compliance but does not provide for the type of the action being taken, is open-ended and gives room for subjective interpretations which attracts arbitrary use of it. Six, prohibition of overly-broad and ambiguous categories of content. The attack is on regulation 12. According to the applicants, the type of speech prohibited by regulations 12 (f) and (g) is wide ranging and poorly defined, making it impossible for the public to know in advance what conduct or speech is criminalized and that this may lead to prohibition of broadcasting news regarding violent crimes or campaigns highlighting the dangers of domestic violence or sexual trafficking. Furthermore, it is equally contended that prohibited images or content may also expose abuses at the hands of the police or other authorities such as unnecessary violence against the public and or marginalized groups information that is clearly in the public right thus contravening the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania.

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