Malaysia
Malaysian Creator HotDaddy Arrested for Selling Adult Videos
A Malaysian court on Friday charged adult creator HotDaddy and his two girlfriends and content partners for the crime of “offering sexual services,” after their arrest last week over the sex videos they made and marketed online.
Malaysian Feminist Charged With 'Obscenity' Over Tweet Depicting Vulvas
A Malaysian feminist and activist was charged today with “knowingly making and initiating the transmission of obscene communication, namely pornographic pictures, with the intention of offending others" after she uploaded a collage of vulvas on her Twitter account.
Cops Reportedly Monitoring Porn Viewers in Malaysia
Police in Malaysia have reportedly employed technology that monitors user porn habits on desktops and mobile devices.
Malaysia Cuts Off Access to More Than 1,000 Adult Websites
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission today said it has blocked more than 1,000 porn websites in its “continuous effort to preserve good values upheld by the plural and multi-religious society in the country.”
Not Surprisingly, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Is Banned in Malaysia
“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the mainstream movie based on the erotic trilogy that has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, is opening in theaters Friday — but not in Malaysia.
Affil4You Offering Mobile Billing in Malaysia
Affil4You announced that it is now offering its mobile billing services in Malaysia.
Malaysia Reconsidering Internet Filtering
Political analysts said filtering would endanger the high-technology investment that had been attracted by incentives and a promise made in the 1990s not to curb the Internet.
Malaysia: Send an Obscene Phone Message, Go to Jail
Mobile phone users caught sending threats or obscene messages with pictures can be fined $14,700 or jailed for up to one year, or both.
Former Malaysia PM Wanted to Censor the Internet
Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister of Malaysia, admitted to an independent news site that he would have censored the Internet if he had been allowed.
Malaysia Cracks Down on Pirated Porn
In order to stem the tide of illegally copied DVDs in Southeast Asia, Malaysian authorities have cracked down on bootleggers, orchestrating raids using canines over the past week. More than a quarter of the 180,000 pirated discs were adult movies.
Fake Playboy Could Lead to Arrests in Malaysia
Authorities in Malaysia are looking for the would-be magazine publishers who distributed fake copies of a local edition of Playboy magazine in the conservative northern part of the country.
Malaysia Prepares to Openly Discuss Sex
Conservative, mainly Muslim Malaysia will begin introducing sex education in schools as part of efforts to combat sex crimes and Internet porn in 2006. Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said sex education would start from pre-school level, where children are aged four to six, and would extend to university level and community programs for adults.
Malaysia DVD Porn Pirates Captured
Police believe they have nabbed the mastermind behind a crime operation dubbed the “Lady Boss Gang” that had distributed tens of thousands of illegally copied adult DVDs during the past year.