What Shahid Bolsen said, and what is happening now in Malaysia

When a government silences its critics or attempts to silence its critics, this signals that it will be a short lived government unless you accompany the censorship with a suspension of democracy. Because you can silence the dissent, but the dissent is still there. You just don't hear it. But you will hear about it come election day. You'll hear about it in Malaysia, believe.

It will be in August that they're gonna have some elections. So the dissent that you don't wanna hear and respond to and address is going to respond to you and is gonna address you when election day comes. You may not hear them on TikTok. You may not hear them on Twitter. You may not hear them on Facebook, but you'll hear them in the ballot box.

Voting has been suspended at a polling center in Payetarubong, Penang after a ballot box was found to be unsealed.

Silencing dissent doesn't make it stop existing. The dissent is still gonna be there, and it will express itself one way or another unless, again, you suspend democracy.