[nicolas_t]

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 have a system in place to censor anything critical of the government. And, if I remember correctly since I left, companies are required to get and validate a user's phone number when registering to be able to track any user identity if requested. This is way worse than Malaysia.

Even in term of blocking, Malaysia only ever blocks by blocking a the DNS level (same as most European countries), they don't have anything equivalent to the great firewall and they don't prevent users from using DNS servers outside of Malaysia.

Malaysia is definitely not a perfect country, the government is corrupted and in a truly democratic country Najib would not have kept power nor would Anwar have been sent to prison but it's much more free and much closer to a democracy than China.

[wilhow]

"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.

[nicolas_t]

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.