The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the pen, critics continue to point out the convention’s flaws.

The Convention took five years to develop and has three purposes:

Those goals are hard to oppose.

Critics fear that while the Convention will help to prevent and combat cybercrime, it will have the unintended side effect of curbing free speech.

Support for that position has come from the likes of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Privacy International, who ahead of the signing ceremony published a joint statement criticising the Convention because it “obligates states to establish broad electronic surveillance powers to invest

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