Tuesday December 12, 2006
Crackdown on online smut
By IAN MCINTYRE
KOTA BARU: The Kelantan Government wants to work with software firms to wipe
out online smut.
It plans to discuss with them about providing programmes that can disable
children and others from accessing pornographic sites on the Internet.
State Youth Committee chairman Abdul Patah Mahmood said: We have the will and
we are very interested to discuss with both foreign and local software
companies to make available to all parents filtering programmes that can
disable children from accessing such sites. It may be costly but the
state is willing to work out a financial package with the software companies on
how best to stop children, teenagers and youths from accessing such sites.
Abdul Patah was responding to a news report that a research by Internet
application provider Google Trends had shown a high number of porn surfers from
Kota Baru and Kuantan. He said the state government viewed the news
report seriously. Kelantan and Pahang reportedly topped the states in
Malaysia with the most number of users accessing pornographic sites.
The research also indicated that the most popular search words in the
Malay version of leading online search machine Google are bogel (being naked),
gambar bogel (nude pictures) and seks Melayu (Malay sex). The report,
however, did not provide the age groups of the surfers. Abdul Patah said
nobody is prevented from accessing the Internet but they must use it for the
right reasons. To use it for pornography is disgusting. It must be
channelled as an educational, information and information-gathering tool. Not
for X-rated materials, he said. Abdul Patah said the state government
will also carry out an anti-smut campaign next year to weed out indecency and
pornography in Kelantan. The plan involves tie-ups with the mainstream
mass media to come out with anti-smut advertisements and an integrated
monitoring system involving schools, community leaders, parents, religious
officers and Internet provider operators. Non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) would also be invited in the fight against online smut
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