Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech

A free media is a bedrock of democracy as espoused by the Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib since without a free media reporting uncomfortable truths about the government how could the populace participate in governance. However, absolute freedom has no place in any country since absolute fre...

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Main Author:	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	H61.8 Communication of information H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences K Law (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/28048/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/28048/2/Program_Schedule_C-MAS2012_2nd.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/28048/1/Censorship_and_the_Law.pptx

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spelling	iium-280482013-02-13T20:25:45Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/28048/ Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech Shuaib, Farid Sufian H61.8 Communication of information H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences K Law (General) A free media is a bedrock of democracy as espoused by the Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib since without a free media reporting uncomfortable truths about the government how could the populace participate in governance. However, absolute freedom has no place in any country since absolute freedom will lead to anarchy. The task then is to strike a balance between a free media and competing individual and societal interests. The objective of this paper is to look at constitutional guarantee of free media and restrictions imposed upon the media and provide a legal analysis on the guarantee of free media, the restrictive laws and the application of the laws. The recent development on media laws where the government had loosen restrictive laws such as the scrapping off the annual newspaper licence is considered together with the need for further liberalisation of media laws to produce media that is vibrant, transparent and fair. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/28048/2/Program_Schedule_C-MAS2012_2nd.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/28048/1/Censorship_and_the_Law.pptx Shuaib, Farid Sufian (2012) Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech. In: Conference on Media and Society, Media, Censorship and Society: Crossroads between Global and Local Realities, 24-26 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak. (Unpublished)
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description	A free media is a bedrock of democracy as espoused by the Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib since without a free media reporting uncomfortable truths about the government how could the populace participate in governance. However, absolute freedom has no place in any country since absolute freedom will lead to anarchy. The task then is to strike a balance between a free media and competing individual and societal interests. The objective of this paper is to look at constitutional guarantee of free media and restrictions imposed upon the media and provide a legal analysis on the guarantee of free media, the restrictive laws and the application of the laws. The recent development on media laws where the government had loosen restrictive laws such as the scrapping off the annual newspaper licence is considered together with the need for further liberalisation of media laws to produce media that is vibrant, transparent and fair.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
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title	Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech
title_short	Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech
title_full	Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech
title_fullStr	Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech
title_full_unstemmed	Censorship and the Law: Balancing Public Interest and Free Speech
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