- no censorship on the internet
- embodied in section 3 (3) of the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998
- states “nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting the censorship of the Internet”
However, the open and democratic nature of the internet facilitates all kinds of abuses. Obscenity,hatred speech, defamatory messages, indecent content and other type of harmful contents flourish in the Internet.
- Malaysian style of self regulation
- "Responsibility of the content therefore lies primarily with the creator of the content"
- The Content Code - a model of self regulation among industry
Azmi, I. M. (2003) Content Regulation in Malaysia - Unleashing Missiles on Dangerous Websites, 18th BILETA Conference: Controlling Information in the online Environment, viewed 7th July 2009
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