Shifting the burden of proof in Malaysia - Features - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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The purported aim of the revision is to prevent internet crimes and scams by placing the onus on the owner of a computer to which a seditious posting is traced or a website on which a seditious posting has been published to prove that they are not responsible for it. The state argued that tracking down those responsible and bringing them to book had been near impossible due to the common use of pseudonyms and fake identities online.
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In Malaysia, the government is making it easier to prosecute internet crimes by placing the burden of proving their innocence on the computer owners.
