bloggers to register soon?

deputy energy, water and communications minister shaziman abu mansor proposed during the dewan rakyat sitting yesterday that. ‘bloggers may have to register’.

the reason?

He said registration was one of the measures the Government was considering to prevent the spread of negative or malicious content on the Internet.

get real, man! negative or malicious content as perceived by whom?

he further said:

…there were about 50,000 websites registered under the .my suffix and there were a lot of avenues for anyone to host websites with malicious content which could harm the country’s security.

harm the country’s security? what a laugh! did he mean that bloggers have such powerful influence, that a mere posting on their blogs will bring down the country’s security?

he also said that the government will have no problem with bloggers who identified themselves. really? but look what happened at jeff ooi and rocky, two of the most popular bloggers who are ‘gentelmen’ bloggers (some minister label bloggers who identified themselves as ‘gentlemen bloggers) – they were being sued.

it’s not a matter of being identified lah… as johor baru MP  shahrir abdul samad said that unidentified bloggers could still be traced.

rocky hit the nail on the head when he commented that the government’s move to register bloggers will  violates the no-censorship policy by the government with regards to the Internet. so, don’t tell me, they (gomen) are going to start censorship on the internet?.