guilty disseminate an obscene image under Section 292 .
Apart from that , the founder of The Real Singapore website was sentence ten months in prison under the Sedition Act for inflaming racial and xenophobic feelings among the Singaporean society through his website . The prosecution said that they are doing that in order to attract readers and for advertising purposes .
Every country has their own reasons for restricting , filtering and blocking websites or any online post that could offence or threat certain parties , individuals or public figures . Furthermore , there are a few websites have already been blocked or banned for sensitive issues and violation to the national law .
Free-flowing of information in the internet would sometimes give out false news , facts or information . In this case , an individual must be able to filter and have media literacy skills to believe whatever that have been posted on the internet .
In Malaysia , the government took an initiative to create the sebenarnya . my portal to check and validate the authenticity of news spread through any social websites while Singapore has set up factually webpage under the Ministry of Communication and Information portal to provide truth facts and information .
The Straits Times reported that even the Internet companies like Google is also taking steps to crack down any false information that occurs in a webpage . There are
a few plug-ins that work with the Chrome web browser to identify and alert
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In the internet users when viewing a site that contains fake news or false information .
Hence , it is true that Malaysians have less Internet freedom compared to Singaporeans due to reasons that Malaysia faces a lot of political and cultural challenges and the Malaysian government need to put some restrictions on the internet .
Besides , the media literacy skills among the Malaysians still need some improvements and they do not want the people get confused with the false news that might create hatred or offence to certain parties and individual .
Factually websites by the Singapore
Government
Malaysia , the government took an initiative to create the sebenarnya . my portal to check and validate the authenticity of news spread through any social websites while Singapore has set up factually webpage under the Ministry of Communication and Information portal to provide truth facts and information .”
Singapore is different . They ware far more developed than Malaysia . Singapore has proven to be a decent country because they can easily access the Internet without having to worry on restrictions and limitations because of their citizens are among the First World Class thinking individuals .
Sebenarnya . my portal by the Malaysian Government
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