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recruits, followers and supporters concerning pornography and
to their causes. Continuous efforts harmful content such as online
have been made to curb such gambling, information on illegal
threats and there have been substances, instructions to make
successful convictions in recent firearms, and misleading and false
years. Yet the ease of developing information, require a coordinated
a new website or forum for any and swift effort and commitment
agenda presents a growing by all parties, which in this case
challenge to law enforcement would be agencies and institutions
agencies. that are directly responsible for
network accessibilities. Removal
These issues are complex due to or restriction of access to content
the varying interpretation of what that is deemed as harmful by
would and should be considered Malaysian law must be pursued.
as amounting to terrorism or
violent extremism. There has been There is also the issue of differing
a dire need of manpower and perspectives on content that
expertise to monitor and correctly may be perceived as either
identify web contents that would hate speech or seditious, or an
fall under this category. There are appropriate expression of free
also other obstacles including speech. This is often the case for
this content which is usually politically-motivated postings on
hosted by providers that are blogs and social media. While
beyond our jurisdiction. The lack there have been successful
of awareness among the general convictions from time to time, the
public concerning these types of creation and spreading of content
resources reduces the incidents of of this nature does not seem to
timely reporting of this content. be lessening, and if anything, they
seem to flourish correspondingly
Content-related issues, on the to the actual situation of the
other hand, bring a new level counterpart issues in the real world.
of complexity to the challenges
of cyberspace. Some issues
