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Gov't mulls China-style Net censorship
Published:  Aug 6, 2009 4:47 PM
Updated: 10:12 AM

The government is considering imposing an Internet filter to block "undesirable" websites, on the grounds of maintaining racial harmony in the multicultural nation, a senior official said.

The move was quickly condemned by the opposition which described it as a "horror of horrors" that would destroy the relative freedom of the Internet in Malaysia, where the mainstream press is tightly controlled.


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