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Malaysia Stages Internet Blackout To Protest New Censorship Law
redletterdave writes "Malaysian netizens, opposition politicians, well-known bloggers and non-governmental organizations staged an Internet blackout Tuesday to protest and raise awareness about legislation that could threaten free expression on the Web. According to Malaysia's Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), the second of two amendments to the Malaysian Evidence Act of 1950, also known as Section 114A, 'enables law enforcement officials to swiftly hold someone accountable (PDF) for publishing seditious, defamatory, or libelous content online.' In addition, those accused of posting this kind of content will be 'assumed to be guilty until proven innocent,' which completely flies in the face of the typical logic of the traditional judicial process, which is 'innocent until proven guilty.' The CIJ warns that 'if allegedly defamatory content is traced back to your username, electronic device, and/or Wi-Fi network, Section 114A presumes you are guilty of publishing illicit content on the Internet.' The CIJ organized Tuesday's blackout, where participating sites blacked out their names and services with messages that read, 'This is what the Web could look like.'"
became a free harbor for information, will flourish in a very near future.
This is nothing more than political maneouvering by the ruling government.
It's been done before, and will continue to be done. Especially because a General Election is coming up. If you read that link I posted, it was reported that the Malaysian prime minister said "Whatever we do, we must put people first,". If that were truly the case, why wasn't that position taken in the first place before the law was passed?
Basically:
1. Pass draconian law
2. Wait for public outcry
3. Repeal draconian law
4. Look like a hero
5. Profit!
The Wknd Sessions - Malaysian and South East Asia independent music
ya da cops n da gov dont control no the internet the goverment there is ran by a bunch of noobs if their dumb enough 2 pass this law
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0 surreptitiously post defamatory content in the names/ip addresses for all the members of malaysian parliment.
1 ???
2 profit
Malaysia is an Islamic country
From Saudi Arabia to Malaysia to Iran to Bangladesh, we see a pattern --- Islamic countries aren't actually famous for their tolerance of free speech
But of course, not all countries that do not allow free speech are Islamic countries. North Korea and Cuba are not Islamic, but then, they are commies
I guess the commies are in bed with the Islamists on their quest to snuff out all free speech
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care - Government & Stealth Malware
In Response To Slashdot Article: Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms 87
How many rootkits does the US[2] use officially or unofficially?
How much of the free but proprietary software in the US spies on you?
Which software would that be?
Visit any of the top freeware sites in the US, count the number of thousands or millions of downloads of free but proprietary software, much of it works, again on a proprietary Operating System, with files stored or in transit.
How many free but proprietary programs have you downloaded and scanned entire hard drives, flash drives, and other media? Do you realize you are giving these types of proprietary programs complete access to all of your computer's files on the basis of faith alone?
If you are an atheist, the comparison is that you believe in code you cannot see to detect and contain malware on the basis of faith! So you do believe in something invisible to you, don't you?
I'm now going to touch on a subject most anti-malware, commercial or free, developers will DELETE on most of their forums or mailing lists:
APT malware infecting and remaining in BIOS, on PCI and AGP devices, in firmware, your router (many routers are forced to place backdoors in their firmware for their government) your NIC, and many other devices.
Where are the commercial or free anti-malware organizations and individual's products which hash and compare in the cloud and scan for malware for these vectors? If you post on mailing lists or forums of most anti-malware organizations about this threat, one of the following actions will apply: your post will be deleted and/or moved to a hard to find or 'deleted/junk posts' forum section, someone or a team of individuals will mock you in various forms 'tin foil hat', 'conspiracy nut', and my favorite, 'where is the proof of these infections?' One only needs to search Google for these threats and they will open your malware world view to a much larger arena of malware on devices not scanned/supported by the scanners from these freeware sites. This point assumed you're using the proprietary Microsoft Windows OS. Now, let's move on to Linux.
The rootkit scanners for Linux are few and poor. If you're lucky, you'll know how to use chkrootkit (but you can use strings and other tools for analysis) and show the strings of binaries on your installation, but the results are dependent on your capability of deciphering the output and performing further analysis with various tools or in an environment such as Remnux Linux. None of these free scanners scan the earlier mentioned areas of your PC, either! Nor do they detect many of the hundreds of trojans and rootkits easily available on popular websites and the dark/deep web.
Compromised defenders of Linux will look down their nose at you (unless they are into reverse engineering malware/bad binaries, Google for this and Linux and begin a valuable education!) and respond with a similar tone, if they don't call you a noob or point to verifying/downloading packages in a signed repo/original/secure source or checking hashes, they will jump to conspiracy type labels, ignore you, lock and/or shuffle the thread, or otherwise lead you astray from learning how to examine bad binaries. The world of Linux is funny in this way, and I've been a part of it for many years. The majority of Linux users, like the Windows users, will go out of their way to lead you and say anything other than pointing you to information readily available on detailed binary file analysis.
Don't let them get you down, the information is plenty and out there, some from some well known publishers of Linux/Unix books. Search, learn, and share the information on detecting and picking through bad binaries. But this still will not touch the void of the APT malware described above which will survive any wipe of r/w media. I'm convinced, on both *nix and Windows, these pieces of APT malware
I'd rather they stay off the internet anyway
Linux users are just as bad at censorship when it comes to facts they don't like. They will relentlessly attack and lie to try to censor people like me.
They're busted altering data I posted days ago with this -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3026917&cid=40890277 when I posted the original DAYS ago, here -> http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40867985 which they couldn't handle or disprove, and they downmodded it and began a campaign of trying to "smear"/discredit me.
If you take a look at the 1st link above, you'll see what I mean...
* You Linux trolls are unbelievable!
APK
P.S.=> Stupid trolls are only doing this to themselves, & got caught in the act by screwing up trying to impersonate me yet again (not a first), and then altering data from a post I did days before leading users to bogus data from goatse.cx etc./et al (puny troll tricks)... apk
If you still have doubt on the savagery of the regime that has controlled Malaysia for the past 55 years, read the following:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040712015617/http://www.waseda-coe-cas.jp/jcas/images/shinozaki_jocas.pdf
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
APK is just as bad at censorship when it comes to facts he don't like. He will relentlessly attack and lie to try to censor people like himself.
He's busted altering data he posted days ago with this -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3026917&cid=40890277 when he posted the original DAYS ago, here -> http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40867985 which nobody could be bothered replying to, so he downmodded it and began a campaign of trying to "smear"/discredit himself.
If you take a look at the 1st link above, you'll see what I mean...
* APK is unbelievable!
APK
P.S.=> Stupid APK is only doing this to himself, & got caught in the act by screwing up trying to impersonate himself yet again (not a first), and then altering data from a post he did days before leading users to bogus data from goatse.cx etc./et al (puny troll tricks)... apk
This forum smugly pretends to be above it all, yet is one of the worst offenders of censorship that I've seen. /.
The moderation is policy is hardly followed when it comes to dealing with "spam" that involves criticism of
editorial. In fact there is are no hard & transparent rules when it comes to a few privileged moderators who
have no names.
E.g. throttling of IP's which originate a couple of perfectly valid criticisms, as well as
throttling of replies to these criticisms. The nature of the throttling is such as to discourage posts due to one
not knowing for sure when the throttle will be removed & thus giving up or timing out. I've also witnessed
posts deleted and then put back in place once an article has cooled.
These behaviors are not difficult to provoke & are not exceptional.
1. A worm which targets government computers 2. Lots of defamatory postings
yeah I can relate the malaysians because when I tried to post an argument about bitcoin I had to wait 4 mins.
Those able to do so, should hack in to every system they can in Malaysia and insert illicit content. When it becomes apparent how easy it is to make anyone guilty of posting any content, and when the justice system finds itself overwhelmed, maybe someone will rethink the legislation.
That said, this could be a convenience law ie. never used except when law enforcement is looking for a way to 'get' someone.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
> Malaysia Stages Internet Blackout To Protest New Censorship Law
Hey, Malaysia, we support you!
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
They've sunk to new lows and are sinking their own ship, just like before http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40887471
even the way we word it is harmful. innocent until proven guilty. until? implying that you will be found guilty at a later time? the wording should be innocent unless proven guilty. not until.
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If somebody makes a scientific claim, do you assume they're correct until somebody else proves otherwise?
So why would you require Obama to prove that some internet troll's claim of "Obama sucks goats" is untrue?
It seems to me that laws like this simply put the burden of proof on the person making the original claim (the allegedly libelous comment), as opposed to requiring the victim to prove to the entire world that the claim is false. And come on... you can't honestly believe that dispelling the lies is possible with all the birthers, swift boaters, and moon landing conspiracy theorists out there, do you? Even "normal" people continue to believe the lies long after they've been debunked.
If you want to make a potentially libelous comment, what is so horrible about demanding you back it up? No more political fishing by claiming Romney is a cheat, or Obama is not a US citizen, unless you can cough up Romney's returns or Obama's Nigerian birth certificate.
P.S. I understand this law also targets the owners of websites, making it effectively impossible to host a discussion board without lawyers as moderators. I consider that a separate issue than simply requiring people to back their claims with proof. I also understand the problems inherent in being able to satisfactorily prove "the secret police kidnapped my brother" to avoid a libel/sedition conviction in some countries. Again, I consider that a separate issue.
Would be quite simple for editorial to be transparent about 99.9% of their policy rather than just the 95% which doesn't effect their abuse. The reason they aren't is the same reason why all schmucks hide stuff. It gives them (as opposed to everyone) more freedom & control. A forum is owned by everyone who creates it, & the controls should reflect this.
Hardly matters so much on /., except that an opportunity to reduce the essences of societies ills, & provide an alternative example is lost.
the malaysian goons didn't get their training at the top of the corruption heap. you're entirely missing the significance of principles, intelligence, integrity, honesty etc. at all levels of society. you are also demonstrating your ignorance of such dynamical systems as chaos which should be a required course for anyone geek who believes they have something useful to contribute to a discussion.