Who are telling the truth – or who are telling lies – about the government’s proposed censorship of online news?

Could one of the country’s top civil servants like the Home Ministry secretary-general Mahmood Adam be openly and blatantly telling a lie when he was reported by Bernama as saying that the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) 1984 would be amended to cover publications posted online and to “plug loopholes”?