While article 14 of the constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the press,there are restrictions on these rights. The newspaper and printing presses act, the defamation act, the internal security act(ISA), and articles in the penal code allow the authorities to block the circulation of news deemed to incite violence , arouse racial or religious tensions, interfere in domestic politics, or threaten public order, the national interest, or national security. The sedition act, in effect since the colonial period, outlaws seditious speech, the distribution of seditious materials, and acts with "seditious tendency