SarawakReport : Election Crackdown On Democratic Freedom Of Speech!

29 April 2017

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has clarified reports that social messaging app WhatsApp group administrators might face legal action if they fail to prevent the spread of false information in the group.

“MCMC would like to explain to the public that all conversations in any group messaging applications like WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, Telegram and such, are private.

“Investigations will only be initiated if there are complaints against the contents shared in that group.

“Hence, the public, whether they are the group administrator or member, should be careful in spreading news in their groups so that it does not become a case of spreading false information,” MCMC said in a statement posted on its Facebook page today.

The commission reminded that disseminating false information is a crime under the law, such as Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) 1998.

Source: Election Crackdown On Democratic Freedom Of Speech!, malaysiakini

Comment

We may be pretending to be getting ready for a free and fair election, but watch what you say!

This is because ‘spreading false news’ includes any ‘derogatory’ or ‘insulting’ remarks about the government in your private chat rooms!

Anyone who claims, falsely, for example, that Najib is the most unpopular Prime Minister ever, will follow Tony Pua and others into the police station to explain remarks that threaten to overturn a democratically elected government.

Because, whilst you have the democratic right to elect your government, the said government does not offer you the democratic right to over throw it!

Malaysia Nombor 1 - We Go Malay For A Day!

4 Aug 2016

The easiest clues ever? Work out for yourself who is MO1

For all you Malay speakers “Find out for yourself who is Malaysian Official Number 1 – we present the Department of Justice Report Translated!”
This week, an UMNO Council Member, the Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin, smugly told reporters that his ‘simple rural’ constituents in Sabah had no idea about the United States Department of Justice and its report into 1MDB.
He added that neither he nor they would have a clue who ‘Malaysian Official 1′ could be.  After all, they don’t speak English.
However, thanks to determined efforts by fellow Malaysians, many of whom do speak very good English, this can all now change.  Over the past few days doughty individuals have tackled the translation of the DOJ’s 136 page document, much of which is couched in legal jargon, into plain Malay.
So, bemused local folk need no longer rely on third hand reports or find themselves misled and confused by interested parties seeking to conceal the truth of this indictment.

Smug Bung – Najib loyalist reckons his constituents are trapped in ignorance

Neither do they have to choose whether to believe the interpretations of Sarawak Report and the rest of the world’s media – or Najib’s supporters, who claim there is no evidence that either he or 1MDB are directly implicated in the theft of billions from Malaysia.
They can find out for themselves [the report is currently fixed alongside the Auditor’s Report into 1MDB on the front page of our site].
Bung and his colleagues may of course resort to their favourite theme, which is to claim that this is a ‘false and doctored’ translation.

However, since the DOJ document is public and transparent and online for all to see (unlike most information produced by their own government) they will have to produce the evidence to test their point.

Sarawak Report urges readers to download our link and send the document far and wide.

Maybe people should highlight what they believe to be the salient points to pass on to friends, since Malaysia’s mainstream media have been banned from performing this basic task?

Use Facebook, Whatsapp, even email to pass on the evidence – for protection upload the document onto so many links that the authorities, who are shutting down Sarawak Report, cannot shut down the truth from the DOJ.

Then those ‘ordinary simple people’, represented by Bung and others, can choose for themselves whether or not to make their voices heard in numbers across all parties, races and religions in favour of fair, honest and clean government for Malaysia, as part of Bersih 5.

Or to settle for a world-beating, corrupt dictatorship instead.

As with online media, Najib can shut up a few hundred and pay a few thousand (or even a hundred thousand), but he cannot jail tens and hundreds of thousands of peaceful, united people, supported by many good citizens across the globe, who are now watching how Malaysian events unfold.

[We will be updating the translation after it has been refined over the next few days]