Malaysia is legislating for an ‘internet kill switch’, according to Azalina Othman Said, the country’s Law and Institutional Reform minister.
Though the details Said gave in a written statement posted to Twitter (written in Malay and recounted via The Register) are thin on the ground, luddites and anarchists dreaming of destruction are set to be disappointed, with the minister strongly implying that it's a move to apply pressure on social media companies to do more about online abuse committed and illegal material disseminated across their platforms.
