Heidy Quah filed a lawsuit to sue the govt over parts of Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act that criminalises offensive online comments.
In her civil lawsuit filed on Aug 30, she seeks a court order to rule the words “offensive” and “annoy” in Section 233 invalidated for being unconstitutional.
Under Section 233(1)(a), a person who makes, creates or solicits, and initiates the transmission of any online comment which is “obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive” with “intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person” commits an offence.
The Refuge for Refugees founder Quah is currently facing court charges over the same law concerning a Facebook post last year on alleged mistreatment of refugees at Immigration detention centres.
