Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers

Posted by timothy on from the governments-generally-suck dept.

Viceice writes "Hot on the heels of recently passed legislation further restricting Freedom of Assembly, the National Front-led Malaysian Government is now working to make the registration of all tech workers mandatory, making it an offence punishable by a stiff fine and jail for anyone to plan, deploy, service and maintain any computing system without a license. A leaked draft of the legislation has ignited a backlash among the IT community, which fear the law, when passed, will be devastating to the tech industry in Malaysia."

2 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Papers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see you have your papers, but do you have your papers for your papers?

    Ahh you do not. You shall be escorted away to be dealt with accordingly.

  2. Re:The west does it too by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only they call it "visa".

    Some of us prefer "mastercard".

    --
    #DeleteChrome