The legislative addition to the Evidence Act intends to forestall people from hurling groundless accusations as well as posting hate-rantings opposite the government.
COMMENT
Last year Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak betrothed which Malaysia will never bury the internet. This was the policy adopted by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during his reign when Cyberjaya as well as the Multimedia Super Corridor were launched. However upon June 1, 2012 the Evidence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2012 comes in to effect. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz claimed which the law was tightened since "we do not wish (anonymous or pseudonymous) people to slander or threaten others," according to the inform in the local English daily.
While which is understandable, he contingency be reminded which last year someone had slandered Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's son as carrying molested the schoolgirl as well as so distant no action has been taken upon which person. Even the supposed schoolgirl was not the schoolgirl during all!
With the new law coming in to outcome so suddenly, it is hoped which the BN supervision will be satisfactory when it comes to exercising the supplies of this legislation.
Still, internet accounts have been open to hacking as well as trusting parties could be in difficulty due to this new piece of legislation which shifts the weight of explanation to the owners of the computer/internet comment to infer his ignorance by producing justification which it was not him who done the slanderous posting.
Why did the new law come in to outcome when the 13th Gener! al Elect ion is usually around the corner?
The role of the new amendments is to force an trusting celebration to cite justification which he is not the publisher. Therefore, he is guilty until his ignorance is proven. He needs to infer which he has no entrance to the computer or the internet during the element time those said statements were published online as well as he needs to justify this by job for witnesses who can be his alibi.
Simply put, the new law intends to forestall people from hurling groundless accusations as well as posting hate-rantings opposite the government. That is fine though general headlines is general headlines as well as no the single can stop the same from being published onto the internet.
Why the remarkable irrational fright from the government? So most for the internet. There is also the problem of hooligan governing body which is removing increasingly rampant lately.
Recent incidents were in Merlimau, Malacca as well as Lembah Pantai in KL where stones were hurled with the goal to cause injuries as well as cars belonging to Pakatan Rakyat lawmakers were vandalised as well as damaged.
Former Perak Menteri Besar Nizar Jamaluddin of PAS had his car splashed with blue paint upon the front portion during the ceramah in Perak as well as this shows which the hooligan behaviour is widespread.
Sheer madness
Is this diseased trend of assault being perpetuated as the threat to democracy as well as polite society? Who is during the back of these attacks? And what is the motive? Surely there is the role during the back of all these seemingly supposed foolish acts.
To counterfeit Shakespeare: "there is process in the madness". Is all the stupidity executed with the agenda to introduce fear, relieve dissent as well as suppress democracy? If so, then those masterminds have been regulating the aged rulebook.
It is time for them to wake up to the! year 20 12 as well as to comprehend which in this day as well as age as polite multitude becomes some-more modernized in conditions of technology as well as education, the aged methods no longer work. By regulating the aged methods to govern us, the adults will be forced to be stuck in the Age of Barbarians.
Are these unfortunate measures undertaken by those in energy who fright losing power? Are they afraid of the polite multitude transformation instituted through Bersih 1.0, Bersih 2.0 as well as Bersih 3.0?
They have seen which Bersih 1.0 as well as the Hindraf transformation have caused them to lose their 2/3 infancy in Parliament as well as thus perhaps Bersih 2.0 as well as Bersih 3.0 will make them lose most more.
Therefore unfortunate times call for unfortunate measures as well as those in energy have been removing increasingly crazier by the day as they lose all sense of moral decency.
Their programmes benefitting the adults have been merely crumbs thrown to the rakyat as well as have been piecemeal measures to overpower the voices of discontent though does not compromise the problem in the long term.
The cancelling of the student loans to Unisel students in Selangor is the vengeful process to plague the rakyat. We do not need the vengeful government. We need great governance as well as the clean as well as pure supervision in sequence to move brazen with the times.
Thus polite multitude contingency continue to press brazen for these final to be met. This is usually the natural march of events as well as the conceited powers-that-be contingency make the correct preference to benefit the usual adults as well as not be selfish to cling upon to energy during all costs usually to benefit usually an snob group.
Selena Tay is the FMT columnist
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