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?.
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on April 5th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Elections coming soon and they are worried they are going to loose the 50,000 blogger votes! But what they are doing is actually encouraging people who blogs to do just that1
lucia: oh well, it had been said/notice that the gomen’s action always backfired!
on April 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
[...] Now, Datuk Shaziman, what exactly is “negative or malicious content”? Or, as Lucia’s good question asked: “…negative or malicious content as perceived by whom?” [...]
on April 5th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
[...] And something that caught my eye while reading Lucia’s latest entry: bloggers to register soon? You know what? Just a few days ago, I watched the “Big Red One” on Cinemax. I’d been meaning to catch that movie ever since I learned Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker) had a starring role in it. So, close to the end of the movie, the squad raid a concentration camp, and this kid gets rescued. And Lee Marvin, the squad sergeant, lifts the arm of this emaciated kid, and he see numbers tattooed on the inside of the kid’s left forearm. [...]
on April 6th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Most malicious messages and news comes from the government.
All those ministers with their pea sized brains, just talk crap time after time.
And it is the bloggers who prove that they ly through their teeth!!
lucia: haha. good one, albert. yep, bloggers exist to prove the gomen wrong/bad/lie.
on April 7th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Albert, they’re also intimidatiingly insulting and the MSM of course proclaim it like they’re the epitome of wisdom, fairness and righteousness.
This one said it twice already and the bet is that he”ll spew the same the third time….less we don’t puke.
lucia: wits0!! you are alive!! wow! such long long time no see you commenting - whatever happened? taking a long long rest from my pot-shot at you? haha. just kidding. glad to see you back anyway.
on April 7th, 2007 at 2:15 am
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/programs/s1891759.htm
Last Updated 6/04/2007 8:16:20 PM
MALAYSIA: Internet, bloggers beyond govt control
In Malaysia, the internet is proving beyond the control of the government - unlike the mainstream media. In recent months a number of ministers, including prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, have lashed out at bloggers, accusing them of lying and nurturing chaos within the community. …..
on April 8th, 2007 at 11:13 am
I would challenge to government to give an example of a specific blogger and posting which is actually a threat to national security. I haven’t seen any such case.
It has very little to do with national security but everything to do with bloggers exposing embarassing details of government disinformation, incompetence and corruption.
Previously, the government’s control of the mainstream media has ensured that such inconvenient truths either never get reported or are totally sanitised. Suddenly they find that ordinary citizens can by-pass this media control and publish the facts directly.
These old hacks are absolutely apoplectic over this, but they haven’t figured out how to counter it. All the idiotic rantings by various Ministers condemning bloggers, this proposal to register bloggers, the suit against the two prominent bloggers are all symptoms of the establishment searching for a way to respond to the challenge from blogosphere.
lucia: well they considered bloggers who exposed ‘embarrassing details’ as a threat to national security!
on April 8th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Kittykat, that standard lexicon of repression is always evoked whenever they are peeved and their big ego ruffled. In complicity is, of course, that MSM that help produce this surreal kneejerk state of arrogance and insensitiivity for at least most of the 5 decades. It’s a habit that’s hard(impossible?) to kick.
The old hacks including the younger ones are absolutely apolpletic because one of their assumed right to mind control (and lazy governance)no longer looks assured.
On the street,raw brawn, rented mobs and/or agent provocateur have been used to demonise and threaten the public but with the Blogosphere, on a level playing field, they simply flop big time. No truth makes for no quality - simply pathetic and absurd: Veracity is like water seeking its own level.
Note what MM said in the last line of :
http://tinyurl.com/ywshy5 "
Right now, there are some pro-government bloggers but they are so crude and clumsy that nobody bothers with them”.
It’ll stay that way.
lucia: agree with you on your third paragraph. they are fond of demo on the streets doing all sorts like burning flags but on the blogosphere… what can they do? they can’t attack back through blogging thus they choose to try to curb us!