Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Amendment 114A: Why it MUST be repealed

Amendment 114A: Why it MUST be repealed

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Today is a Malaysian Internet Blackout Day.

Since you're celebration of a mass this, you would have seen a pop-up, that will sojourn in place for 24 hours, travelling a total of August 14.

And by now, you should know because this beginning has been carried out by a Center for Independent Journalism (better known as CIJ).

But only in case you still aren't sure because a fuss, kindly take a few mins to perspective this PSA.

It's an guileful piece of legislation that should be repealed with evident effect. Among alternative things, it violates a most simple tenet of law: that one is innocent UNTIL proven guilty.

And that, as The Titanic found out, is only a tip of a iceberg...

CIJ has put together a total bunch of resources for you to find out some-more about a amendment to a Evidence Act 1950, but here are a pass points (taken from a CIJ FAQ upon Amendment 114A):

1. What is 114A?
Secti! upon 114a is a brand new amendment to a Evidence Act 1950 that was upheld in council without debate in April 2012. The section is called "Presumption of fact in publication". It states that any owner, admin, host, editor, subscriber of a network! or webs ite, or owners of computer or mobile device is presumed to have published or re-published a contents.

2. Why is it a problem?
It has wide-ranging strech as good as extends not only to practically everybody who uses any internet platform from e-mail as good as social media to blogs as good as online media but additionally those who don't.

It is a complaint because:

It presumes guilt rather than innocence.
It creates individuals as good as organisations who administer, work or provide spaces for online village forums, blogging as good as hosting services, probable for content that is published by a services.
It allows hackers as good as cyber criminals to go giveaway by creation a person whose account/computer is hacked probable for any content/data that might have changed.
It can have you probable for content that you did not publish when someone creates an comment in your name.
It threatens a principle of anonymity online, that is consequential in promoting a giveaway as good as open Internet.
It threatens leisure of countenance online.

In alternative words, it is opposite a core beliefs of justice, democracy as good as elemental tellurian rights.

3. How will this start you?
If 114a is not stopped, you will be held responsible for a difference of others. It can additionally outcome in a dismissal of comment functions, curtailing your space for posting bona fide comments as good as opinions. This impacts your democratic right to experience freely and! openly i! n public debate as good as discussions. Indirectly, it will encourage a meridian of self-censorship, as good as will have a huge stroke upon a interactive inlet of online media.

4. Why do you want to stop 114a?
Our opinions as netizens a! s good a s as citizens matter. If a brand new Evidence Act were gazetted, 114a would seriously hinder a democratic right to leisure of countenance upon a Net.

Let's keep online spaces giveaway as good as open to vicious comments as good as debates.

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But a complaint with Amendment 114A does not stop with leisure of countenance as good as weight of proof. It does have a genuine stroke upon a Tech as good as Business sectors as well, articulated in this article (by Digital News Asia Executive Editor as good as Founder, Asohan Aryadurai).

We're hopeful that with this initiative, most some-more will find out about Amendment 114A, as good as because it must be repealed. You'll be astounded during a number of people who do not essentially know about this.

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So do yourselves as good as your friends a favor widespread a word about this. And if you'd similar to to participate, a previous post you put up tells you how. Or click upon a picture above.

Act now, prior to your Internet leisure becomes history