Existing laws to deal with websites that cause unease
Friday September 12, 2008
PUTRAJAYA: The Cabinet has ordered the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to reinstate access to all blocked websites, including Malaysia Today, with immediate effect.
Instead of restricting access, MCMC will now use existing laws to prosecute website and blog owners who carry racist, seditious and sensitive religious postings.
In other developments:
> Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said MCMC has formed a monitoring committee comprising the police, officials from the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Home Ministry to monitor websites and blogs.
> The move to reinstate access to all blocked websites has received the thumbs up from various groups.
> The Government said it was not under pressure from any group to reinstate access to the blocked websites.
> Lawyer says Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act can be used to act against the improper use of network facilities or network services as well as against communication that is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.
--The Star--
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