{"id":800613,"date":"2023-10-26T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/10\/26\/malaysia-to-warn-tiktok-meta-over-alleged-blocking-of-pro-palestinian-content\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:28:22","slug":"malaysia-to-warn-tiktok-meta-over-alleged-blocking-of-pro-palestinian-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/10\/26\/malaysia-to-warn-tiktok-meta-over-alleged-blocking-of-pro-palestinian-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia to warn TikTok, Meta over alleged blocking of pro-Palestinian content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s communications regulator will issue a warning to social media firms Tiktok and Meta for allegedly blocking pro-Palestinian content on their platforms, its communications minister said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this issue is ignored, I will not hesitate to take a very firm approach and stance,&#8221; Fahmi Fadzil said in a posting on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Without elaborating, Fahmi said many parties had urged the government to take firm action against social media platforms for allegedly restricting pro-Palestinian content.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Tiktok and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Fahmi said Malaysians have a right to freedom of speech regarding the Palestinian cause, adding that right will not be taken away.<\/p>\n<p>The concerns come two weeks after Fahmi said TikTok had not complied fully with Malaysia&#8217;s laws and had not done enough to curb defamatory or misleading content. TikTok in a response said it would take proactive measures to address the issues raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s communications regulator will issue a warning to social media firms Tiktok and Meta for allegedly blocking pro-Palestinian content on their platforms, its communications minister said on Thursday. &#8220;If this issue is ignored, I will not hesitate to take a very firm approach and stance,&#8221; Fahmi Fadzil said in a posting on X, formerly known as Twitter. Without elaborating, Fahmi said many parties had urged the government to take firm action against social media platforms for allegedly restricting pro-Palestinian content. Representatives of Tiktok and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Fahmi said Malaysians have a right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}