Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers 187
Viceice writes "Hot on the heels of recently passed legislation further restricting Freedom of Assembly, the National Front-led Malaysian Government is now working to make the registration of all tech workers mandatory, making it an offence punishable by a stiff fine and jail for anyone to plan, deploy, service and maintain any computing system without a license. A leaked draft of the legislation has ignited a backlash among the IT community, which fear the law, when passed, will be devastating to the tech industry in Malaysia."
All for the sake of censorship. (Score:5, Interesting)
this is simply another measure - if you make all i.t. workers registered, noone can set up stuff that may prevent/circumvent censorship or anything and still remain in business. this includes proxies, servers, networks - anything. basically its just a control scheme.
Impact on open source development (Score:5, Interesting)
This could also affect everyone that develops open source on any project.
Re:what? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:All for the sake of censorship. (Score:3, Interesting)
Wake up!
ALL religions are crap. Take for example the so-called Born Again Christians you have in the US.
Religions should be considered for what they are, CULTS and should be forbidden to take any part of the political life