{"id":6013,"date":"2020-09-21T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T05:43:16","slug":"senate-updated-on-cyberbullying-fake-social-media-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6013","title":{"rendered":"Senate updated on cyberbullying, fake social media accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 &nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp; Cyberbullying and fake social media accounts came under the spotlight in the Dewan Negara today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communications and Multimedia Minister&nbsp;Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah told the Upper House of Parliament&nbsp;that his ministry together with the Malaysian Multimedia Ministry is carrying out a study on the need for specific laws to combat cyberbullying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said engagement sessions and discussions on the matter were underway in finding a solution as well as draw up a suitable framework to come up with the best mechanism to tackle cyberbullying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the existing laws are found to be inadequate to tackle\u00a0cyberbullying, appropriate amendments can be made to these (laws).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"Cyberbullying\" class=\"wp-image-6014\" width=\"516\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-183x100.jpg 183w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-350x191.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-800x436.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn making amendments or come up with new legislation if necessary, public consultation and consultation with the stakeholders will be held to ensure the outcomes will be effective,\u201d he said during the Question-and-&nbsp;Answer session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was replying to&nbsp;a question from Senator Datuk A. Kesavadas&nbsp;who wanted to know whether the government&nbsp;intended to study the issue or formulate new laws to control bullying using social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1881698\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 &nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp; Cyberbullying and fake social media accounts came under the spotlight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg",1086,592,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-300x164.jpg",300,164,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-768x419.jpg",640,349,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc-1024x558.jpg",640,349,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg",1086,592,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg",1086,592,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg",1086,592,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg",1024,558,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7a1da3954af66f1cc9497da2e1ed9e995f683981284dc.jpg",720,392,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}