“Malaysia has authorised police officers to carry out random checks and detain people with pornographic images found on their mobile phones. Phone shop operators who provide downloading services for porn could also be charged for its possession, which is illegal in this Southeast Asian country, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. The offence carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison and 50,000 ringgit ($A17,500) in fines. Deputy Internal Security Minister Noh Omar said the decision was in response to an earlier news report in the Malay-language tabloid Harian Metro that teenagers were recording images of mass sex parties and distributing them using their video-enabled mobile phones… Although pornography is illegal in this mostly Muslim country, enforcement has mostly been weak. The government began taking a tougher stand recently, blaming rising crime and moral problems among youths — such as rape and teen pregnancies — on unfettered access to pornography, especially on the internet. A salesman allegedly found with a laptop computer containing a downloaded pornographic movie was charged in May in an unprecedented move.” —National Nine News (Australia)

When he dreamed up Big Brother, George Orwell imagined him — or it? — as an extension of fundamental Western tendencies: totalitarianism, technocracy, propagandism. And while contemporary society is not without traces of Big Brother, he is probably doing better in places like Malaysia and Iran. That’s right — he’s less likely to be found these days with Emmanuel Goldstein than with Abdullah Badawi, the current prime minister of Malaysia.

Certainly that’s how Malaysians must feel if and when they get stopped on the street so that police can perform a random porn-check on their mobile phones. After all, who really cares if somebody wants to watch a blowjob video on the postage-stamp-sized screen of his phone? It’s not hard to think of a lot of other acts with greater potential to threaten society. True, pornography is technically illegal in Muslim Malaysia — but then that’s a joke, considering that Malaysia plays a central role in the trafficking of young girls for the sex trade. Apparently it’s ok to offer up the local adolescents to slobbering German tourists, but it’s not ok for those same adolescents to be caught with porn on their phones. Porn corrupts them, whereas German pedos must, uh, uplift them.

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