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Spain to ban social media for under-16s, hold platform executives accountable for illegal content

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces sweeping measures to protect minors online, with new laws to criminalise disinformation and executive accountability

The state of the nation: a small slice of MCMC’s pie taking too much of our attention – Zainul Arifin

Tasked with policing the digital wild west, the regulator finds itself damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t—caught between calls for freedom and demands for order in a society addicted to outrage

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‘Very hurtful’: Chief justice exposes legal failures driven by distorted Islamic views

Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat laments misinterpretations of faith that distort justice in high-profile rulings, cites Indira Gandhi and Nik Elin Zurina cases

Petronas staff to be shown the door to make up losses from Petros deal?

Source claims national O&G firm is expected to see 30% revenue loss once agreed formula for natural gas distribution in Sarawak is implemented

We never ask for personal user data from telcos under MPD initiative: MCMC

Deputy managing director explains that all mobile data is anonymised at the telco level, with no names, IC numbers or addresses ever collected or stored by the commission