Tag: Communications and Multimedia

  • Comments on section 233A of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998

    I was asked by The Star to comment on the amendments of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA) in the article “Experts: Necessary act to address online harms effectively“, particularly, over the new section 233A. For completeness, I reproduce section 233A- “Sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages233A. No person shall send or cause to…

  • Bread & Kaya: The law and the Sweet Young Malaysian Girls blog

    The law and the Sweet Young Malaysian Girls blog Nov 29, 2013 – Netizens are riled up over the blog that posted pictures of young Malaysian girls, many of them minors – Determining which laws could be applied against the blogger in question is however a challenge Bread & Kaya by Foong Cheng Leong I…