Fix weaknesses in handling disasters, not delete critical tweets: govt told

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KUALA LUMPUR – Prominent lawyer Syahredzan Johan has panned the government for forcing netizens to delete Twitter posts which are critical of the government’s handling in one of the country’s worst flood disasters in living memory.  

Instead, Syahredzan said Putrajaya should reflect and fix its weaknesses in disaster preparedness to prevent the same incident from recurring.

“It is obvious that the government is not pleased with the people’s criticism of the way they dealt with the floods, so much so that they acted to delete those tweets. 

“Although Twitter has rejected the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission’s (remove) request, MCMC’s act (of asking for the tweets to be taken down) must be condemned.

“MCMC is still using the same playbook as the previous Barisan Nasional government, that is, suppressing government critics,” the activist said. 

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