Gov�t Worldwide Cracking Down on �Fake News�, Writing and Even Sharing Now Leads
to JAIL
By John Vibes
As governments across the world attempt to fight back against �fake news,� Malaysia
has set a troubling precedent by banning news stories it deems to be �fake� with a new
law that imposes a penalty of up to 6 years in prison for violators.
Under the new bill, titled Anti-Fake News 2018, �news, information, data, and reports
which is or are wholly or partly false� are now illegal.
The penalties do not only apply to the news organizations and websites where these stories
originated, but they will also be extended to the average person who might share a story
on social media without knowing whether or not it is true.
Initially, the government wanted to impose a 10-year penalty for those who are found
guilty of these laws but were met with a massive public outcry, so they slightly lowered the
maximum sentence to 6 years.
Malaysia�s communications and multimedia minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Salleh Said Keruak
said in a recent statement that this law was necessary in order to save democracy:
�Over the past few days, since the Government�s Anti-Fake News Bill 2018 was introduced to
Malaysia�s parliament, it has attracted a lot of attention and commentary.
We welcome discussion, and after listening to a wide array of voices, the Government
has made changes to the Bill, including reducing the maximum sentence for convictions under
this law to six years in prison.�
�So it is clear that this Government will act when it is necessary to protect the security
and freedoms of the people and our democratic process.
And there can be no doubt that this fake news law is necessary,� he added.
Ironically, Salleh Said Keruak claimed that this strong measure of censorship still allows
for citizens to exercise their freedom of speech.
�The definition of fake news in the Bill is clear and specific; freedom of speech as
provided for under the Federal Constitution will not be curtailed; and the Government
will not itself decide what is fake news, but instead will allow a neutral party, namely
the Courts, to decide via independent legal process.
As we have seen since a former leader stepped down and judicial independence was recovered,
Court decisions now frequently go against the Government and senior ministers,� Salleh
Said Keruak said.
The ban comes at the onset of an important general election for the country, and as Salleh
Said Keruak pointed out in his lengthy statement, Malaysia is not alone in implementing censorship
measures to fight what they consider to be �fake news.�
Various neighboring countries in Southeast Asia, including Singapore and the Philippines,
are introducing similar laws.
Meanwhile, some European countries already have these types of laws on the books.
Last year in Germany, legislation was passed that legally forces publishers to delete whatever
the state deems to be hate speech or misinformation.
Earlier this year, French President Emmanuel Macron called for emergency legal action to
crack down on �fake news� during elections.
In America, the censorship measures are more subtle, with the government putting pressure
on companies like Facebook or YouTube to throttle and shadow-ban accounts that make controversial
posts.
Even without the draconian prison penalties, the basic outcome of media censorship is the
same: creating uniformity of thought.
These governments say that they are protecting their citizens from misinformation, but what
they are really doing is protecting themselves from competition.
As many of these politicians have pointed out, the sea of information available to us
on the internet has fundamentally changed the way that governments operate and it has
stifled their ability to keep the masses of society bound to a particular worldview.
Now there are millions of different places where people can get their information, each
of them offering different viewpoints�some well-researched and legitimate, some downright
false, and most somewhere in between.
This has created a situation where people are far less trusting of both politicians
and the media, which � contrary to what the state claims � is a very positive thing.
However, now we are seeing that politicians around the world are attempting to regain
control of the narrative by placing themselves in a position to be arbiters of truth.
According to a 2017 report by the independent research group Freedom House, press freedom
in the United States and across the world is at its lowest point in 13 years.
The report found that there were �unprecedented threats to journalists and media outlets in
major democracies and new moves by authoritarian states to control the media, including beyond
their borders.�
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