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The Negative Consequences Of Freedom Of Speech

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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter”(George Washington). George Washington quote on freedom of speech is extremely true and powerful because that is what is happening today. Freedom of speech has been seen and heard from many people around the world, through media channels or newspaper. People stand on freedom speech because they want a change in their world and mostly those changes are for good reasons. Nowadays freedom of speech can be seen a lot in this 21st century but there were many people facing consequences if they speak up the truth. Let us travel back to the year 1735 where freedom of speech was even not applicable in that time. New York distributer John Peter Zenger …show more content…

“The Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 is also closely related to the publishing world. The purpose of this act is to control all types of publications, whether printed in the country or imported from abroad”(UUM PRESS 2015). This PPPA was quite controversial and a debate to begin with because freedom of expression and freedom of speech was limited for the printing presses and newspaper company. Those sector was restricted from writing true stories and telling the truth to the public because they could not touch any matter regarding political stuff and manipulating news to the public. If the media sector and newspaper company did not follow those rules, the Home Affair Minister has the right to suspend the permit and refuse an application for a permit for newspaper and printing presses. On the other hand, Home Affair Minister can suspend the permit if any publication risk national security or create social conflict. The Minister has obviously restricted freedom of expression and also freedom of speech. The public always wants to know the truth and the first principle of journalism is truth and accuracy. Why do the Minister wanted to restrict from writing news regarding politics? These days, any news stories that the Minister feels that are sensitive to them, they will accuse the innocent people to put in jail or fine them. For instance, in the year 2015, three editors were arrested under Section 4 of the Sedition Act because they were reporting over Islamic Laws (Hudud). This is not acceptable by The Institute of Journalist Malaysia because press freedom was not appreciated by the Minister and the government. Not only Malaysian people are restricted to freedom of speech, foreigners to have limitations to freedom of speech in Malaysia. According to Scawen (2016), Malaysian government has arrested two journalists from Australia who questioned Prime Minister Najib Razak about

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