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Proposed Rules Would Require Gov't Registration For Malaysian Press Sites
Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak has proposed mandatory government registration for web sites operating within Malaysia. This comes after the Malaysian government blocked the online Sarawak Report, and suspended a newspaper called the The Edge "for allegedly posting unverified information."
Officials accused these news outlets of publishing inaccurate documents about a corruption scandal that linked the Prime Minister to 1MDB, a state-managed investment firm that reportedly lost billions of taxpayers’ money. ... The proposal to require news websites to register is seen by some as part of the government’s response to the rising outrage over the corruption issue.
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Apparently if the government is criminal it tries to protect criminals instead of trying to prosecute them. Pretty much like in the US where Snowden revealed how much of the government are criminals, but instead of prosecuting those people they are allowed to attack Snowden, hoping people will ignore the actual crimes.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
Doesn't that expression validly describe more or less the entire content of the Internet . . . ?
Well, that and porn.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
In the East, a magazine is shutdown for doing it's job while in the West, defamation suit is raised against the individual journalist. The people in power are so afraid the people that their give themselves even more reasons to be afraid of the people by their own actions. It's the revolutionary cycle, feeding violence and terror in the system.
Singing Do-wa-didee-didee-do-didee-dum and two cop cars pull up in a SCREEECH and one cop jumps out and says "On the ground scumbag" and I'm like looking around and don't see a scumbag so I point to myself and say "me?" and he says "all right you getting tazed" and he pulls the gun and tazez me until I crap my pants and I scream more than I ever have - not a girly scream I don't think - and the cops laugh and say "no he's not the guy" and they jump in their cars and peel away.
Such a mandatory registration would not pass the first amendment, and even if the courts were cowed into accepting it, the government would have to face a public that is armed to the teeth compared to what Malaysia faces. The US is one of the worst societies in human history for its political class to say "let's see how far we can push the public."
The reason why the Snowden thing worked for them is that Snowden went too far. He revealed a lot of information about how we deal with foreign targets, which a majority consider fair game. Had he stuck to the domestic programs, he'd have been hailed a hero by a majority.
...the owners of the presses.
Whether that's the government or half a dozen Murdochs is largely irrelevant, though each political extreme likes to the think their opposition is significantly different.
I've experienced tightly state controlled media before moving to the US. The latter's press reports loads of irrelevant shit, which makes it look like there's more variety, but on the stuff that matters, it's all the fucking same - all important information is sourced from a tiny pool of press releases, and, in summary, my new masters are all in agreement on anything that'll make a difference to my life, but my enemies are inhuman monsters. Same shit, different decoration.
SE Asians are typically savvy when it comes to modern technology. Seems like they're missing how the Internet works.
Goatse'ed!!!
Goat balls are fried nice here ha ha ha
Apparently if the government is criminal ,,,
When you say 'Apparently if the government is criminal' you are telling the world that you do not know the original purpose of "Government"
A "Government" is a tool, used by the elite to govern the lowly masses
With such a tool, the elite gets to decide
* What kind of laws the masses must follow
*,Who would be the ones who carry out the enforcement of the laws (including the police, the persecutors, the judges, the prison guards and the executioner) ... and ...
* Ways to protect the elite from being persecuted under the same laws
In Malaysia's case, the Prime Minister was caught red handed stealing $ 700 millions from the public coffers, and instead of being punished, he and his elite cohorts are imposing all kinds of draconian measures to make sure that the masses can't fight back
In the case of the United States of America, Mr. Edward Snowden has been described as a traitor even though the one who was violating the Constitution was the Government of the United States of America
In other words, all the governments of the world, no matter which country it happens to be, are criminals, one way, or another
If you ever read any publication from official media (even those supposed to be from the independent media) in Malaysia you will notice one thing ---
They never dare to ask the right questions
Either -
1. They are too stupid to know what the right question is
or
2. They are too timid to ask
And as one who have been in Malaysia for the past 5 years (working, I am from America), I am kinda leaning to the latter ... them so-called 'journalists' in Malaysia are spineless creeps
But then ... the so-called 'journalists' in my home country - the United States of America - are not that much better either
A better title would have been "Malaysian government acknowledges corruption by officially limiting the freedom of speech over the internet".
You are aware that the laws in the US only protect the rich, right?
Take the laws of Israel, of Russia (or former USSR), of China, of US of A, of France, of Zimbabwe, of Iran, of Argentina ... take the laws of ANY COUNTRY you can find, and I can bet you my bottom penny that they are written to protect the elite
No matter if it is Malaysia or Tunisia or Afghanistan or Canada or Italy or Chile, the elite must be protected at all cost
The elite, being the elite, get to write the laws, and guess what? They will write the laws in such ways that they, the elite, be protected at all cost !!
Ms. Streisand is a Jew and the Malays, including the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, are anti-Jews
"Malaysia - a G-d forsaken hell hole"
Malaysia is the close neighbor of Singapore, where news are either provided by state-owned companies, or censored as soon as anything displeasing the state is published. As a result the incumbent government never lost a vote, and it is perceived as uncorruptible even when the wife of the prime minister is appointed to rule those state-owned companies.
This can give some inspiration...