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Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content
An anonymous reader writes: A few days ago Slashdot carried a piece of news from Malaysia whereby [news] websites based in Malaysia must be registered. Now comes the news that Malaysia is actively blocking websites which carry political opinion contrary to those of the ruling elite.
Granted, Malaysia is no US of A nor Europe, but the world must understand that Malaysia is the only country in the world where racial apartheid laws are still being actively practiced — and have received endorsement from the ruling elite which has controlled Malaysia for the past 58 years.
(Wikipedia lists some other candidates for modern-day apartheid in its entry on Contemporary segregation.)
If Malaysia practices apartheid, why is the civilized world not boycotting, divesting from, and sanctioning this country? This is what happens to countries that practice apartheid. It worked on South Africa and it can work again on Malaysia.
I wasn't even aware of this until I read the summary, and I read a lot of international news.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
On the contrary... most countries have some level of institutionalized racism. This is because there is an unresolved conflict between democratic rule and national identity.
Unfortunately having an adult public debate about it is next to impossible for the political class. On the one side you have the extreme left that typically slanders anyone that points this problem out as racist or fascist (nearly the entire "human rights" industry falls in this category) On the other you have the extreme right that goes to great lengths to conform to the stereotype.
I have been living in Malaysia / Singapore since 2012, on a work-related assignment.
My previous assignment took me to Israel, for a 3-year contract.
As a Brit I have to say that racism does occur in both countries, albeit with a not-so-subtle difference:
In Israel, the laws do not favor any one race ...
... while in Malaysia the laws are stacked against the minorities ,
Every conceivable law and regulation favors the majority Malay race ---
From the issuance of Taxi Permit to the paying of income taxes ...
From the purchasing of houses, to university enrollment...
... the minorities, be it the Indians, the real indigenous (locally known as "Orang Asli"), the Chinese, and the mixed races, bear the brunt of legal discrimination.
But please, do not take my word for it ...
http://world.time.com/2013/09/...
One thing about Malaysia is that the ruling regime invested very heavily in professional spin-doctors, with their history-twisting lies, in order to hide all the ugly truths
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/special-investigation-tv-company-takes-millions-from-malaysian-government-to-make-documentaries-for-bbc-about-malaysia-2338813.html
The message I am replying to is one of those beautifully crafted piece filled with fact-twisting half-truths
To jblues,
Please spread your bullshit somewhere else!
The Malays did not have 'thousands of years' of history nor culture on Malaysia.
The Malay arrived in Malaysia from Sumatra of Indonesia. Even their own history books have noted that Parameswara, a defeated prince from Sumatra, running from his enemies, landed on the shore of the Pininsular, some six hundred years ago
However, there is one people in Malaysia who can trace their ancestry back to thousands of years - the Orang Asli, the TRUE aborigines
All of you are invited to find out the truth for yourself, instead of listening to professional soothsayers paid by the racist regime which is now controlling Malaysia. I will only include a single link, to illustrate how the Orang Asli are being treated by the Malay authority ---
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/orang-asli-odds-with-nation-state
We have this problem in Sweden, whose previous mishandling of massive inflows of immigrants has already started leading to ghettoisation.
The Left here refuses even to discuss this, thus ceding the debate to Sverigedemokraterna (the right-wingers) before it's even begun.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
"Malaysia is the only country in the world where racial apartheid laws are still being actively practiced" Never heard of Israel, I suppose: http://www.itisapartheid.org/l...