Malaysia crypto event drops Ms Pui Yi as DJ after backlash over adult-content past

A major Malaysian blockchain conference has dropped Siew Pui Yi, an influencer previously known for adult content, as the headline DJ for its official after-party after the country’s digital economy agency withdrew support.The uproar tapped into a familiar cultural fault line in Muslim-majority Malaysia, putting the country’s push to promote itself as a regional technology and crypto hub in tension with conservative scrutiny of sexualised entertainment and provocative imagery.Malaysia-blockchain-week" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="173024" data-entity-type="event">Malaysia blockchain Week announced on Monday that Siew, better known as Ms Pui Yi, would no longer perform at the event’s after-party on Thursday night.“Following an update to our event arrangements, there has been a change to our Afterparty DJ line-up,” organisers said in a social media post. “MsPuiyi will no longer be performing as our headline DJ at the MYBW26 Official Afterparty.”The announcement came after the Malaysia-digital-economy-corporation" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="173025" data-entity-type="organization">Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) said it had withdrawn its support for the event and ordered organisers to remove all materials bearing the name, logo or image of the agency, the Ministry of Digital and Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.