KUCHING: Assistant Youth Development Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah believes that the usage and access to Facebook should be regulated.
Abdul Karim said it was high time that the government, through Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), regulate the usage of social media and register those who use it.
This was because some users of Facebook and other social media channels had been spewing racial and religious hatred through their postings.
“Through this way, the government can instill responsibility on these users and don’t let them use Facebook or other mode of cyber communications to create disharmony, unrest or racial incitement,” he said when contacted yesterday.
The Asajaya assemblyman was asked to comment on Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek’s recent statement that the government would study whether it was necessary to bar access to Facebook following cases of abuse through the social website.
Ahmad Shabery said his ministry was conducting studies to gather public views on the matter.
Meanwhile, PKR Stampin branch secretary Desmond Kho, when contacted, said the Communications and Multimedia Ministry must take the studies seriously to determine whether the access to Facebook was detrimental to the society.
“Any decision (to bar or not to bar access to Facebook) should not be taken arbitrarily. All the stakeholders must be consulted, and it should not just be a ministerial decision
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