Recently, an amendment to a Evidence Act 1950 was passed in both houses of Parliament. It's called Section 114A "Presumption of Fact in Publication". And it is a BAD square of legislation.
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The Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ) has put together an beginning to lift recognition of why this is a bad square of legislation, consisting of, in between other things, a purpose-specific blog, an ongoing recognition campaign, a public forum (this Saturday, Aug 11), as great as an Internet Blackout Day.
Similar to a SOPA/PIPA criticism blackout, participating websites as great as blogs will be "blacked out" displaying a pop-up stating a website/blog's appearance in a trance initiative, with links to find out more about Amendment 114A, as great as soci! al media connectors to 'Like' upon Facebook. You can see an example of this pop-up in movement here. Unlike a SOPA/PIPA blackout, however, a website/blog will still be entirely functional once a pop-up is closed.
myAsylum is committed to help out in this beginning with a limited resources, as great as yes, we will be participating in a August fourteen Internet Blackout exercise.
We will, however, go a couple of steps serve shift a blog header (already done), as great as arrangement a single as great as usually a single blog post upon a main page upon Aug 14th, talking about Amendment 114A.
If we have a Blogger-based blog, you, too, can experience by following a instructions Walski has provided in a full post.
(how to practice a Aug fourteen trance pop-up, in a full post)
But prior to we do anything else, greatfully send an e-mail to CIJ Malaysia vouchsafing them know which we would similar to to participate, upon condition which them details of your website or blog. They will send we behind formula to practice a pop-up. Be certain to discuss it CIJ whether we will practice a formula upon a website, or blog this is critical since a doing is slightly opposite in between a two site types.
If we do not have a website or blog, we can also help await a Stop 114A debate upon Facebook or Twitter, by becoming opposite your arrangement design to a a single we see upon a left (right click! upon a image, as great as do a "Save Link/Target As").
Every little appearance helps with this campaign, as great as not having a website or blog shouldn't stop we from helping.
If we have a Blogger-based blog, a following is how we practice a pop-up. We will usually yield instructions for Layout-based Blogger blogs, though this should work with a old style templates as well. Also, we will need to be comfortable with modifying your blog layout. To be safe, always backup your template prior to we do any changes. Just to be sure.
Step 1: Go to Blogger.com as great as log in to entrance your blog settings. Select your blog from a dashboard, which will bring up your blog overview page. Click upon Layout as shown in a design below.
This will bring up a blueprint set-up page for your blog.
Step 2: What we will do right away is add a widget to a single of a area sections, preferably in a footer territory as shown above (although adding a brand new widget in! any sect! ion works).
Step 3: A brand new window will cocktail up for we to select a widget type. The sort to make use of is a HTML/javaScript widget type.
Step 4. Once selected, an revise window will appear for we to insert a script. You can name your brand new widget (optional), though ! bear in thoughts which naming a widget will cause a name we allot to appear as a streamer in a little templates.
The formula to make use of has been developed by a great people during Cari.com.my, a single of a participants in a Aug fourteen Malaysian Internet Blackout campaign. There have been 3 denunciation versions: English, Bahasa Malaysia as great as Chinese (3 opposite sorts of encoding). The general formula can be found during a following links:
The formula is "generic&quo! t; in the! sense which it assumes which a images compulsory to make a pop-up work have been uploaded to a root directory of your blog. For Blogger blogs, this is not possible. There have been two workarounds to strike this.
The first is to horde a picture files upon your a little file-hosting use (such as Fileden) which allows direct URL entrance then cgange a formula to include a full URL of a two images compulsory in a pop-up. Where a full URLs go have been shown in a design below (where a red b! oxes are ).
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The URL for a first picture is:
http://cari.com.my/cijtest/cij_images/sec114a_eng_resized.jpg (English)
http://cari.com.my/cijtest/cij_images/sec114a_bm_resized.jpg (BM)
http://cari.com.my/cijtest/cij_images/sec114a_cn_resized.jpg (Chinese)
while a URL for a second picture is:
http://cari.com.my/cijtest/cij_images/stop114a-white_resized.jpg
Once replaced, a book will demeanour similar to what is shown in a picture below (example shown is a English version script).
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If all this seems as great complex, we can go for a simpler second workaround: Walski has pre-modified a scripts for you, so all we need to do is to download a mutated scripts from a following links (right click as great as do a Save Link/Target As):
The pop-up has been implemented during myAsylum reLoaded, a test blog which Walski uses for investigation purposes, as great as a end-result should demeanour similar to a picture below.
As mentioned earlier, we will wish to surprise CIJ Malaysia which we wish to experience prior to going forward as great as carrying out a implementation.
Walski hopes which this post has been helpful, as great as he looks forward to seeing your blog or website participate. It's an beginning aimed during ensuring a Malaysian cyber! space rem! ains free from a possible effects of Amendment 114A to a Evidence Act.
The probability of unfair charge aside, there's also a chilling effect Malaysians will no longer feel safe to demonstrate their views freely, as great as thus practice self-censorship. In other words, a death of a Internet as we know it
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