Freedom on the Internet: Malaysia

Abstract

Social media has been hugely popular among the youth through mediums such as Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Online news p o d s have become very dominant and mainstream in Malaysia o v e d i n g the print and broadcasting m e d a Thus, the internet has given more democratic space to the people expression for and agaimt the govemment and opposition. T h s study, studes about freedom of the internet in Malaysia, specifically in examining the political speech. Malaysia practises the policy of free cyberspace but still, there are many mechanisms to restrict political speech online. Some restrictiom are justifiable such us on pornography and hate speech. There is a concern that the govemment restricts more that it should be. Ultimately, freedom of the internet is cmcial for amore democratic Malaysia.