Pinkyj wasn't the only who choked on her breakfast when she heard this news. Coffee sprayed from my nose as I was trying to hold back my chuckles.
It's the fashionable thing to do nowadays, blogger-bashing statements by ministers. Seems like another minister had made another unfavourable comment about bloggers. But can we take his suggestion seriously? Must we have a license from the government to have a voice of our own? Did it ever cross his mind that if a blogger ever intent to post critical opinions about the country, they won't even bother to register?
I mean, he actually thinks that by enforcing bloggers to register with the ministry, the government can have some form of control over blogs with seditious contents? So they want to put a name and a face to a blog so nobody can be anonymous? So that they can go sue people or press charges or sumbat more people in jail under ISA?
Hmm, I have to stop posing questions now.
Coz, yah, it's believable coming from a paranoia-stricken government that is struggling to retain some semblance of hegemony in the country by keeping a tight grip on the media. Come on, there are more than a 100 ways to 'create national disunity' in cyberspace, and it doesn't involve asking permission from anybody.
A grown man's foot in mouth is not quite as cute as a baby's
It's the fashionable thing to do nowadays, blogger-bashing statements by ministers. Seems like another minister had made another unfavourable comment about bloggers. But can we take his suggestion seriously? Must we have a license from the government to have a voice of our own? Did it ever cross his mind that if a blogger ever intent to post critical opinions about the country, they won't even bother to register?
I mean, he actually thinks that by enforcing bloggers to register with the ministry, the government can have some form of control over blogs with seditious contents? So they want to put a name and a face to a blog so nobody can be anonymous? So that they can go sue people or press charges or sumbat more people in jail under ISA?
Hmm, I have to stop posing questions now.
Coz, yah, it's believable coming from a paranoia-stricken government that is struggling to retain some semblance of hegemony in the country by keeping a tight grip on the media. Come on, there are more than a 100 ways to 'create national disunity' in cyberspace, and it doesn't involve asking permission from anybody.
A grown man's foot in mouth is not quite as cute as a baby's
3 comments:
Ha...Ha... Malaysia sure "boleh" get involved in anything and everything. I was speechless when I read the news online.
Soon to be Vikram's Mom :)
hi Vikram's mom... eh no more soon to be lah, confirm oredy he is your son! lol
pilihanraya coming ... :D
Mommy is still in denial mode :) She's working really hard :)
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