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The law says officials should support the media in their coverage of disasters and other emergencies. Photo: AFP

Chinese officials told to stop avoiding media questions about emergencies

Commentary in legal newspaper warns officials not to give ‘no comment’ answers – but some observers warn it will be easy to get round law.

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Jodi Picoult, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker books top banned list in US

TikTok slashes hundreds of jobs in shift towards AI content moderation

Malaysia arrests, deports maid for criticising Cambodia leaders on social media

Nuon Toeun, 36, who had worked in Malaysia for several years, was arrested on a request from the Cambodian government.

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Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Nuon Toeun, 36, who had worked in Malaysia for several years, was arrested last week by Malaysian authorities following a request from the Cambodian government. Photo: Bloomberg

Man accused of stabbing Japanese boy jobless with criminal record: Chinese media

Information about the sensitive case is tightly controlled by Chinese police, media and internet censors.

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Malaysia scraps its loathed internet re-routing plan after public backlash

Insiders warn fallout from scrapped DNS policy could undermine government efforts to attract tech investments from major players like Nvidia.

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Malaysia denies web traffic rerouting plan ‘draconian’ amid censorship fears

The regulator said the move would protect users from harmful content, but critics argue it could dent the country’s digital economy.

Malaysia said the DNS redirection measure was aimed at protecting vulnerable groups from malicious content. Photo: Shutterstock

North Korea challenges China’s border telecoms plans in rare protest

Pyongyang claims Beijing failed to consult it about the deployment, potentially indicating strained communications between the two.

Asian Angle | Vietnam retools its propaganda strategy for the social media age

Vietnam’s attempts to change its social media approach are complicated by tight controls and the public’s low trust in government messages.

TikTok leads tech grumbles over Malaysia’s new social media licence

TikTok Malaysia’s head of public policy urges government against taking top-down approach to moderating content on social media.

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TikTok is the first social media platform to take a public position on Malaysia’s planned regulatory tightening. Photo: AFP

My Take | China’s censorship of cyberspace ID criticism risks losing a chance to improve

Chinese law requires new regulations to solicit public feedback, but legitimate concerns about giving netizens a single national ID are being silenced.

A man holds an iPhone as he visits Sina’s Weibo microblogging site in Shanghai on May 29, 2012. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | Myanmar’s VPN ban, internet controls expose citizens to more cyber threats

Ban is likely to push people, desperately seeking information or social connection, towards alternatives even from obscured sources.

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Malaysia’s raucous internet faces mute button as Anwar targets social media

Malaysia’s push for more internet regulations, including a “kill switch” to control harmful online content aimed at minors, has raised concerns about broader internet control and suppression of dissent.

Malaysia’s new cyber law stirs fears of ‘death knell’ for free speech

Critics say government has duty to protect space for dissent, amid concerns new law is pushed ‘with little consultation and in haste’.

A commuter reads from his mobile phone next to an advertisement discouraging the dissemination of fake news at a train station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. File photo: AP

As OpenAI blocks China, developers scramble to keep GPT access through VPNs

On the day OpenAI cut off API access in mainland China and Hong Kong, developers turned to VPNs and third-party providers while making plans to use domestic models.

OpenAI cut off China access to its application programming interface this week, forcing developers to access through virtual private networks and consider changing services. Photo: Shutterstock

Censorship fears as Singapore moves to erase ‘offensive’ cigarette from mural

An order by the authorities in Singapore to erase a smoking cigarette from a mural in the city’s Chinatown district has provoked a row over art censorship.

In the US, LGBTQ librarians grapple with attacks on books – and on themselves

People who identify as LGBTQ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted.

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Maintenance on Hong Kong sculpture sparks questions over censorship

Hoarding around sculpture while it is repaired has grey panels over photos wrapping around boards blocking out two figures in yellow raincoats.

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One of the grey panels covering part of a photo of the artwork where two figures in yellow raincoats would have been seen. Photo: Jelly Tse

China cracks down on seeds of cyberbullying after suicides linked to abuse

Online publishers must push awareness of online abuse, censor comments in advance and cut off live broadcasts containing violent information.

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Bill that would restrict investigative reporting in Indonesia blasted by critics

Activists argue the bill is being fast-tracked to protect the interests of the political elite.

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Indonesia mulls ‘dangerous’ ban on investigative journalism, LGBT content

Indonesia has been mulling controversial legal revisions in recent weeks, including changes to a law that would give the government more power to remove sitting judges.

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Yogyakarta Islamic organisations hold a protest in 2016 to reject the existence of LGBT. Homosexuality is a taboo subject in Indonesia, one of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nations, where it is illegal in the sharia-ruled Aceh province. Photo: Shutterstock

US raises ‘deep concerns’ over disappearance of Chinese Covid-19 journalist

Zhang Zhan, arrested in May 2020 after reporting on coronavirus in Wuhan, has not been heard from since her expected prison release date earlier this week, advocates say.

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Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan was charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and sentenced to four years in prison. Photo: Handout

Pirate e-book site Z-Library hit by China’s Great Firewall, Bilibili account closed

Z-Library denied rumours of temporarily restricted access in China, promising to maintain access and saying it’s open to censoring some titles.

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My Take | Albanese clashes with Musk over harmful content – but don’t stop there

The Australian PM was incensed after Musk’s X ignored a court order to remove videos of a stabbing attack in Sydney.

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Elon Musk escalates feud with Australia over X as spy chief warns of extremism

Musk accused Australia’s leaders of trying to censor the internet after a court ordered his platform to stop showing footage of a bishop being stabbed.

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Computer monitors display the sign-in page for X, formerly known as Twitter. Photo: AP

Malaysia eyes censorship powers over streaming content amid rising conservatism

Malaysia’s home ministry says it wants to prevent the streaming of LGBTQ, communist and Islamophobic content on platforms such as Netflix.

Netflix application running on a TV. Photo: Shutterstock

Opinion | Ultranationalist frenzy hampering China’s ability to tell its story

The spectre of ultranationalism is haunting Chinese social media and getting in the way of countering increasingly negative views of China around the world. Those who welcome a more vocal turn in Chinese online discourse should remember that nationalistic outbursts do not signal strength.

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‘Journalism is dead’: how India’s media is being turned into pro-Modi propaganda

On the face of it, India still has a vibrant media. But to many journalists, leadership changes and diluted coverage illustrate how PM Modi has effectively brought the industry to heel.

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9 September, 2024
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