PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has urged the public to not share any video clips of the Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) helicopter crash tragedy, to keep away from committing any offence beneath the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA 1998).
MCMC additionally suggested any social gathering that had uploaded the video clips to delete them from social media platforms.
“Internet customers have to be extra delicate, and respect the grieving households of the victims,” MCMC mentioned in a press release.
Earlier, TLDM confirmed the lack of 10 of its personnel within the 9.32 am crash, involving seven crew members of the Maritime Operations Helicopter (HOM-AW139) and three crew members of the TLDM Fennec.
It is known that the incident occurred throughout fly-past coaching at the side of TLDM’s ninetieth anniversary scheduled early subsequent month.
MCMC harassed that, as a statutory physique which regulates using community amenities and community providers, it want to remind the public that the transmission of communications with traits that threaten, offend or disturb others is prohibited beneath the CMA 1998.
It additionally conveyed sympathy to the victims’ households and subsequent of kin.
Today’s media additionally reported that Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil issued the same warning to media practitioners to respect the relations and households of the victims concerned within the crash, as circulating the video clip will have an effect on them.
