Leading human rights activist Malik Imtiaz Sarwar is one of the lawyers representing Jeff Ooi who is being sued by the New Straits Times Press and associated individuals for postings on his blog Screenshots . The defamation suit brought against Ooi concerns his comments on an article written by NSTP former group editor Brendan Pereira, against which was levelled accusations of plagiarism.

Malik has his own blog called Disquiet wherein he has posted on this acid test on expression in Malaysian blogsphere. In 'Defamation and the Blogger', Malik writes "Defamation suits are intended to deter, through a 'chilling effect', publications of a similar nature."