High Court grants injunction to remove harmful content from two Telegram accounts

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The KL High Court granted an interim prohibitory injunction to stop Telegram, including administrators of the Telegram accounts Edisi Siasat and Edisi Khas, from publishing, distributing, or rebroadcasting disputed content as outlined in the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)'s legal claims.  This was confirmed by MCMC's counsel Datuk Sankara Narayan Nair after the proceedings held in chambers  on Thursday (Sept 11).   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The order this morning, we have successfully, MCMC has successfully been granted a prohibitory in Ganshan, we have asked for 33 of our impugned articles to be removed from the channels, the two particular channels.

00:28We also asked for mandatory, but the court felt that it was not able to grant mandatory, because I think the court did mention that it's not an issue of censorship.

00:48So, I think we can...

00:51So, why untuk perintah injunction itu dibenarkan?

00:53Untuk prohibitory injunction terhadap 36 content split in the statement of claim.

01:0036 content split in the statement of claim.

01:02Ketua file itu.

01:03Ini, this is the interlocutory.

01:05It's the file statement.

01:06Then, ini injunction is interlocutory.

01:08So, the channel in both is EDC Siasat?

01:12EDC Siasat and EDC Has.

01:16These are the two main channels.

01:19Yeah?

01:20So, that's what happened today.

01:22Okay?

01:23By trial, we'll go on.

01:24Then, we'll decide on other issues.

01:27What is the next step?

01:28There's nothing more on this.

01:29Ah, 24.

01:30The date is 20?

01:3124 September for case management.

01:33Ah.

01:3424 September for case management.

01:35Ah.

01:36Ah.

01:37Ah.

01:38So, but pending trial, we can apply for injunction.

01:41Any yang telah berlaki.

01:43Yeah?

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