Anonymity is your time up?
Anonymity has a wealthy way of life and may be important for a few varieties of on line discourse Yet it can be without difficulty abused – must websites like DNA require identification for posting feedback? WE start, with a nod to Dickens, with a tale of two lawyers, both speaking approximately the contentious amendment to the Evidence Act 1950 that the Malaysian Government has bulldozed thru. The Government first said the regulation changed into formulated to reinforce prosecution in opposition to on-line defamation and sedition – it later modified its tune to mention it changed into to address terrorism and cybercrimes – by making it tougher for on-line commentators to cover behind anonymity. [Further analysis of the wording in the legislation however suggests that it would actually encourage anonymity by making all parties up and down the online access supply chain legally liable and presumed guilty.] In one discussion board dialogue on the Evidence (Amendment) (No2) Act 2012...