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Re: Malaysia Digital Free Trade Zone

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Post by wilhow » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 2:09 AM UTC

nicolas_t wrote: post #14

walrus01 wrote: post #5

You only need to google "Malaysia internet sharia law" to understand why it would be a very poor idea to invest in datacenter/telecom infrastructure in Malaysia, domestically. The government is going the same direction as Turkey recently. https://www.google.com/search?q=malaysia+internet+sharia+law... In my opinion it's ethically the same as deciding to operate a datacenter in mainland China and sign up for all the g…

Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim (40% of the population). I also don't think the comparison to mainland China is warranted. Mainland China is far worse when it comes to censorship and to tightly controlling anyone hosting data on servers in China. I used to have a company in China and for example if you host user submitted data that are publicly viewable you had to…

"Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim."

The important disclaimer to such statement is "For Now". There's guarantee that will not change in the future.

Re: Malaysia Digital Free Trade Zone

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Post by happyslobro » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

geff82 wrote: post #20

happyslobro wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto, relocated there from Doha. It is conveniently close to a large cluster of AirBnBs, which helps out big time while waiting for a resident's permit.

How long did it take you to get a resident's permit? Seemed to me like this process would be quite fast.

It probably could be fast, if you have all your ducks lined up. UAE immigration wanted me to go back to Canada to pick up a fresh notarized copy of my educational and criminal records.

I really don't understand why this kind of thing can't be done over a video conference, and then printed, stamped, scanned, emailed, printed locally. But, I got a nice little trip to my hometown out of it, so whatever.

Re: Malaysia Digital Free Trade Zone

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Post by nicolas_t » Tue, Apr 04, 2017, 6:48 PM UTC

wilhow wrote: post #21

nicolas_t wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim (40% of the population). I also don't think the comparison to mainland China is warranted. Mainland China is far worse when it comes to censorship and to tightly controlling anyone hosting data on servers in China. I used to have a company in China and for example if you host user submitted data that are publicly viewable you had to…

"Malaysia has a dual legal system so any sharia law there doesn't apply to non-muslim." The important disclaimer to such statement is "For Now". There's guarantee that will not change in the future.

With 40% of the population being non muslim and the huge discontent changing that would cause, I think it's extremely unlikely that it would change. Even PAS isn't advocating for sharia bills to apply to non-muslims.