Anil Netto : Sect. 114A a mechanism of intimidation?

Credited to Twisted Kromosomz
(http://sekupang.net/kromosomz/post/2012/08/14/114a-Guilty-Till-Proven-Innocent.aspx)

With the recently passed and currently enforced bill (on May and July 31, 2012 respectively) by Dewan Negara, the now infamous Section 114A ofEvidence Act 1950, had spurred up controversy throughout Malaysia.

Basically 114A is a controlling mechanism for contents in the internet that is deemed as harmful by the government. Hence, making the law enforcer of this amendment untouchable. Section 114A allows law enforcers to charge a person responsible for as much as sharing contents in the Internet that had been coded red by the Government, let alone owning them.

According to Anil Netto, a blogger and Treasurer of Aliran, mentioned that this new law goes against the whole Malaysian constitution's "Innocent until proven guilty". He argues that this law is a mechanism of intimidation used by the government to silence the people from posting contents they deemed as seditious, defamatory, or libellous.

Abigail de Vries, the project coordinator to the Center For Independent Journalism (CIJ) said that due to the wide ranging effect of the Act, from the owner of the content to the provider of internet access can be held responsible, intimidating the people from freely speaking their minds in the internet