Fahmi says working with social media platforms on 3R issues

The communications and digital ministry says it has been engaging with social media platform providers and operators to help them better understand the laws pertaining to the 3R issues of royalty, religion, and race. 

Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) had conducted engagement sessions with almost all social media platform operators including Telegram and Meta.

He said that cooperation with Telegram had been good despite the platform’s earlier refusal to meet with the MCMC regarding pornographic content, hate groups, scams and other issues.

"I have not received the latest report. I know that MCMC and Bukit Aman (the police) have had several engagement sessions. After the last meeting with Meta last week, there was a session that took place over the past few days.

"I am made to understand that most of the social media providers and operators understand the laws of the land a lot better as well as MCMC and the police’s role in terms of protecting public safety and security," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. 

Meanwhile, Fahmi said the ministry would leave it to the police to take further action against any party who made statements touching on 3R issues, including in the cases involving DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

"The police will act without fear or favour against anyone who seems to be possibly transgressing the laws of the land," he added.