{"id":2438,"date":"2012-08-13T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2012-09-04T23:23:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T04:23:34","slug":"malaysias-evidence-act-stop114a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/13\/malaysias-evidence-act-stop114a","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s Evidence Act &#8211; #STOP114A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of many oppressive Malaysian laws, but I believe we need to fight the good fight and never let our freedoms on the Internet expire. The government works for us, not the other way around. An expiring regime tries many tricks, but its clear that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/saifuddin-backs-repealing-law-that-could-curb-net-freedom\/\">rifts within the regime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you need more information as to why the amendments to the Evidence Act are bad, the Center for Independent Journalism in Malaysia has a pretty good resource:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stop114a.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/stop114a.wordpress.com\/<\/a>. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/stop114a.wordpress.com\/what-is-section-114a\/\">about<\/a> it. I&#8217;m particularly pleased there is an <em>infographic<\/em>\u00a0so for people that are lazy to read, the <a href=\"http:\/\/stop114a.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/stop114a-infographic1.jpg\">infographic tells all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a huge chunk of <a href=\"http:\/\/stop114a.wordpress.com\/resources\/\">resources<\/a>, and you can even put on a <a href=\"http:\/\/stop114a.wordpress.com\/get-involved\/twitter\/\">twibbon<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/stop114a.wordpress.com\/get-involved\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> &amp; Twitter. I&#8217;ve done so on twitter at least.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t plan on being silenced or blacked out per se, but its important people know about this movement.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/7774224498\/\" title=\"stop114a-infographic1 by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8443\/7774224498_de4820491c.jpg?resize=500%2C381\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" alt=\"stop114a-infographic1\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of many oppressive Malaysian laws, but I believe we need to fight the good fight and never let our freedoms on the Internet expire. The government works for us, not the other way around. An expiring regime tries many tricks, but its clear that there are rifts within the regime. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1405],"tags":[1398,1399,137],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-malaysia-thoughts","tag-stop114a","tag-evidence-act","tag-malaysia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}