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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."

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  1. All for the sake of censorship. by unity100 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Malaysia had had passed on to an islamist party government. and they have been trying to increasingly implement sharia-compliant measures. internet irritates them to no end with its freedom and possibility of pursuing anything 'non islamic'.

    this is simply another measure - if you make all i.t. workers registered, noone can set up stuff that may prevent/circumvent censorship or anything and still remain in business. this includes proxies, servers, networks - anything. basically its just a control scheme.

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    1. Re:All for the sake of censorship. by sxpert · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Wake up!

      ALL religions are crap. Take for example the so-called Born Again Christians you have in the US.

      Religions should be considered for what they are, CULTS and should be forbidden to take any part of the political life

  2. Impact on open source development by Skapare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This could also affect everyone that develops open source on any project.

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
  3. Re:what? by SlashdotWanker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    it's not religion or faith that's an issue. It's a totally corrupt regime who's been in power quite a while and is trying to implement sharia law for their own personal benefit. if this law goes into effect, it will cause the entire countries IT infrastructure to start slowly imploding. Who wants to paint a gigantic red bullseye on their back?