Regulating Online Streaming Content Remains Challenging

Dr Benjamin Loh, Director, The Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions Impact Lab, Taylor's University

25-Mar-24 07:45

Regulating Online Streaming Content Remains Challenging

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With Home minister Saifuddin Nasution expressing his readiness to discuss with the Communications Ministry on the possibility of regulating streaming platforms such as Netflix, we ask Dr Benjamin Loh, Director of the Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Impact Lab at Taylor's University shares with us if this is a reasonable course of action as well as the possibility of doing so with existing legislation.

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Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar, Keith Kam, Philip See

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Categories: controversies, Law/Activism, politics, technology

Tags: online safety act, streaming services,

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