How the MCMC is outsourcing censorship
Private companies and PH supporters have been given sweeping censorship powers
Over the last few days, the Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has assured Malaysians that it is trying to protect internet users from an increasing amount of harmful online content.
Since Pakatan Harapan has come to power as the major party within the unity coalition, there has been a massive increase in content removal requests from the MCMC and other government authorities. The MCMC has also claimed that its focus has been focused upon online scams, illegal sales, gambling, misinformation, and hate speech.
This year, there has been a 24-fold increase in social media requests, amounting to 25,642 requests. Reuters has reported that Meta has restricted 3,100 pages and posts on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. This effectively means that these pages cannot be seen by anyone within Malaysia.
These posts have allegedly violated Malaysian laws, but lack transparency and natural justice where those who own the pages and/or post these comments are given any right of reply to defend their positions.
Requests to social media portals by the Ministry of Communications are higher than any other government in South-East Asia.  However, what these figures don’t include is ‘content moderation’ undertaken by private companies, who employ Pakatan Harapan supporters as their agents.
MCMC’s outsourced censorship
Most of the internet platforms which include Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google (YouTube), Tik Tok, and X (Twitter) mostly hire private companies to handle their content moderation in individual companies.
These platforms utilize a blend of foreign and locally registered companies. Two of the major companies utilized for content moderation include Accenture, Indeed, Â and Majorel Malaysia. There are a number of locally incorporated companies as well, all recruiting in what appears to be an exponentially growing industry in Malaysia.
Informers have said that the bulk of these content moderators are focusing on political content, and by far the vast majority of content moderators, are favourable towards Pakatan Harapan. This places a massive bias towards censoring materials stories and information detrimental to PH.
These content moderators have the power to define what is misinformation, political hate speech, and just what is bias against PH, without any guidance and transparency.
Thus, Pakatan through content moderators has created an army of social media censors inside the social media infrastructure. Some of these content moderators go out of their way to report blogger websites to the MCMC, which then asks internet service providers to clandestinely block blogger sites in an illegal manner.
ISPs do the MCMC’s dirty work
This is akin to the days before the internet in East Germany where Stasi informers tell the authorities that citizens disagree with the official government narratives. Content moderators are doing a massive disservice to democracy and freedom of speech, allowing the government to disclaim any such wrong doing.
Content moderators spy on potential political dissenters of the government and the ISPs do the dirty work for the MCMC, why they can say, it wasn’t the MCMC that blocked any sites.
The Madani government has created a biased social media censorship system, which may well be illegal.
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Is there some paranoia about a "Chinese wave" or what? Chinese "power" and any Chinese takeover of Bolehland is just fanciful delusion badly cooked up by some rabid clueless and half-witted racist and fascist bent on stirring up fear among the ignorant and impressionable peasants.
If our monkeys learn their maths reasonably well and can understand statistics and demographics, the Chinese will never overtake any others simply because they are incapable of breeding like rabbits and have even lost interest in bonking.
What's more Chinese in Bolehland are morbidly timid and have left their interests and welfare in the hands of their traitorous and treacherous "Chinese" parties of unscrupulous opportunistic deadbeats. The MCA and especially the Dirty Arsewipe Party have asked the Chinese to become anybody and anything but Chinese. So why be bothered about the Chinese, they don't figure as a sizeable or even relevant electorate.
There's no sense asking the Chinese to become "Malays", speak Papua pidgin, dress up as "Malays" - that would be dumb and hilarious as those who dress up like Arabs but can hardly speak Arabic. There's even the serious danger the ex-Chinese would be more "Malay" than the pretend-Arabs, outdo all as "Malays" and rightfully take over Bolehland. Think Abduraman Wahib, he became president of Indonesia, then he tells you he was actually a Tan-somebody and he was a Hokkien! Thankfully, Indonesia is not as rabid racist as Bolehland, Gus Dur was very well-like, and was a highly-respected Islamic figure.
Employing "Mandarin moderators" is pointless. The Chinese are never going to be of any significant electorate, winning them over or controlling them is a waste of time and money even when wasting anything is a famous quality here. Why should you give a toss when the "Chinese" political parties are doing a stellar job selling out their bleeding and bleating sheep?
Pathetic and unhealthy fear of opinions not to the liking of a fascist and dictatorial gomen.
We may yet see children turn their parents in, neighbours spy on each other, jackboots and kaypohs vastly increase, ceaseless prosecutions, politicians getting even more thin-skinned and butthurt even more easily...
You'd have thought the MyDummy gomen act more in favour of and protective of free expression. Instead we're getting the gomen paranoid and insecure about the people they are supposed to protect and serve, wtf moral bankruptcy is that?!
Still, with the overzealous and control freak stormtroopers of our political parties and contractors, surveillance and arrests may yet develop into a thriving industry.