KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 ― A consumer on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter, has claimed that the Malaysian authorities had despatched a request to X to take down considered one of his tweets. This got here after he had tweeted about Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil and known as him a “bloody moron’.
X consumer @yindian5 had initially posted on December 12 a tweet about Fahmi Fadzil’s new place as Communications Minister, saying that Fahmi had not achieved a good job inflicting the federal government to cut up the ministry. He additionally known as Fahmi a “bloody moron” and accused him of being “Anwar’s lackey”. This was in reference to the latest Cabinet reshuffle introduced by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, through which he cut up the Communications and Digital Ministry into two new ministries: the Communications Ministry helmed by Fahmi and the Digital Ministry helmed by Digital Minister Gobind Singh.
The similar consumer then posted one other tweet on 13 December, this time with a screenshot of a discover he obtained from X. The discover was from X stating that that they had obtained a request from the Malaysian authorities as a result of they declare that the content material in it violated Malaysian legal guidelines. However, X had not but taken any motion towards the consumer at the moment as a results of the request.
We’ve since reached out to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission asking for a response or assertion relating to the matter, and can replace in the event that they reply. Social media rules fall underneath the purview of the MCMC, which in flip remains to be underneath Fahmi and the Communications Ministry. ― eNM
