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Malaysia Legislation


ACT 588
COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA ACT 1998

PART IX - SOCIAL REGULATION
Chapter 2 - Content Requirements



Section 211. Prohibition on provision of offensive content.


(1) No content applications service provider, or other person using a content applications service, shall provide content which is indecent, obscene, false, menacing, or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person.

(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both and shall also be liable to a further fine of one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence is continued after conviction.