Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Jailani Johari said out of the total, 4,277 were pornographic websites that were offensive and threatened security, while another 767 contained gambling, prostitution, fraud, piracy, counterfeit products, unregistered medicine and other negative elements.
“MCMC blocks websites based on the application of enforcement agencies such as the police, health ministry, domestic trade, cooperatives and consumerism ministry and other relevant agencies.
“MCMC has also blocked 72 websites related to the spread of Islamic State ideology,” he told the Dewan Negara today.
MCMC has investigated 181 cases of social media and Internet abuses involving the spread of false information and contents through platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and so forth under the same act.
Jailani said, out of the total, six cases were brought to court, including five that were prosecuted while 10 cases were compounded.
He was replying to a supplementary question from Ramli Shariff who wanted to know the number of offences committed via the use of the Internet and dissemination of information through social media.
Speaking to reporters at Parliament lobby later, he said the ministry, through MCMC, had introduced a parental control tool application to enable parents to monitor and filter Internet contents being accessed by their children.
“This application encourages parents to be involved in the process of monitoring and filtering the websites surfed by their children,” he said.
He said the application was among the programmes under the “Click Wisely” campaign which was also introduced to schoolchildren to create awareness on issues related to the cyber world.