What is Content Regulation? The open and ubiquitous nature of the internet facilities all kinds of abuses. Obscenity, hatred speech, defamatory messages, indecent content and other type of harmful contents flourish in the internet. For this reason, many countries are now regulating speech on the Internet, just like what they have traditionally done all types of mass media.
Offensive contents that could implicate in content regulation are defamation:libel and slander, child pornography, rumor mongering, hatred messages, workplace issues and against public norms.
Malaysia had an unique law which is 'no cencorship policy'. Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 was implemented by Malaysia government for internet content regulation. "nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting the censorship of the internet".
In order to regulate the harmful content, under Communication and Multimedia Act 1998, Multimedia Commission is required to form Content Forum comprising of industry leaders, consumer NGOs and government agencies.
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