A dedicated committee will provide further clarification on the proposed requirement for parents to monitor their children’s online activity under the Online Safety Act, says Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil.
At a post-Cabinet press conference on Thursday (June 5), Fahmi said the formation of the Online Safety Committee—under the jurisdiction of Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said—is a key step in implementing the legislation.
00:00Regarding the upcoming Online Safety Act, the government is planning to enforce the part where the parents are supposed to monitor the kids' online activities.
00:09How is the authorities going to enforce this?
00:12We will wait until we receive the Online Safety Act, ONSA.
00:18And one of the key things that has to happen first is the formation of an online safety committee that largely will be under the purview of the minister in charge of law.
00:27So, we have to wait until the process is finished.
00:31And what we have to do as the implementation of online harm, it will be explained through the power of the authorities.
00:39So, we will wait until the process is finished and finished.
