Complex sentence: The historical roots of the current version of the Sedition Act was drawn from the Malaysian Sedition Ordinance, which was first introduced in Malaysia in 1948 by the British to silence dissent against colonialism and British rule.
Split into simpler sentences: The historical roots of the Sedition Act draw from the Malaysian Sedition Ordinance. The Sedition Act was first introduced in Malaysia in 1948 by the British who used it as part of a set of legal restrictions designed to silence dissent against colonialism and British rule.