However, the government has blocked access to news sites and social media in isolated incidents in efforts to quell protests.
In November 2013, for example, Justice Mponda, a correspondent for the online publication Malawi Voice, was arrested for allegedly “intimidating the royal family” due to an investigative story he had written.
[5] Malawi law prohibits the publication or transmission of anything "that could be useful to the enemy", as well as religiously offensive and obscene material.
Malawi participates in regional efforts to combat cybercrime: the East African Community (consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) and the South African Development Community (consisting of Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) have both enacted plans to standardize cybercrime laws throughout their regions.
[7] According to International Telecommunication Union statistics for 2009, approximately 4.7 percent of the country's inhabitants used the Internet.