damn emo now
Also malas to blog, so might as well copy and paste my own entry from Monsterblog.
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Sounds scary…
PETALING JAYA: Laws should be amended so that action can be taken against webmasters and bloggers who post lies and other statements which could have serious repercussions.Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the Internet was good in the sense that a person had the freedom to think and decide, but there were those who posted lies and tried to incite feelings of ill will among the different communities in Malaysia. ( Story link )
Perhaps Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin should meet up with a large group of bloggers so beliau could better understand the nature of blogging, and why people do it. And hopefully he will soon come to realise that the majority of bloggers do not blog to spite the country; in fact some blog because they love the country, and depends on how you look at it, being patriotic in their blog posts.
For some people, blogging is a hobby, like collecting stamps. Only that my personal view is that collecting stamps is boring. I’d collected stamps for 4 years, and I’d been blogging for more than that. So I’m right 
For some people, blogs are a platform for voicing their opinions and views which have no place in the current mainstream media. Contrary to popular belief, people are not stupid. Some of them do have things to say, and they say it well; only that they find themselves lacking of an appropriate venue to voice their thoughts, hence they turn to blogs. When I was in Form 6, I was pretty much lonely and left alone. I built a website using a free on-line software (Trellix on Tripod if anyone would remember) and on that website, I wrote of personal experiences, such as ghost stories that I personally ‘experienced’.. Back then blogs were pretty much non-existent, at least in Malaysia anyway (this was in 1999). But my activities of chronicling my thoughts and daily life was akin to a blog entry today. I had a grand total of 5 readers, but being able to express myself in that way sort of built my confidence in my personal journey in life.
I came across a blog by an American, Tom Hespos. In one of his year 2004 entries, he wrote:
[…] I think blogs are part of a social movement. All social movements are driven by an unaddressed need, and in this case I think the need is for trusted, alternative sources for news and opinion. And I think that’s partly due to the mainstream media consistently getting things wrong over the past few years.[…]
Blogs are coming along to fill this void. Relatively speaking, they cost less to produce and require the expenditure of fewer resources. When you can’t trust the mainstream media, maybe you can trust someone who spends their time gathering news and opinion from multiple channels, analyzing it and putting it out there quickly for consumption. Maybe you can trust somebody who’s more like you than like Paula Zahn or Soledad O’Brien – someone who’s not a beltway insider or member of the media elite.
I think blogs are filling a void for a lot of people, mostly the void of reliable information, whether that information comes in the form of news or opinion. As I’ve talked about here and in my column several times, blogging software enables the citizen-publisher. So now in an era of unreliable information, we’re seeing the electronic rise of what Oliver Wendell Holmes called the “Marketplace of Ideas†where the blogging community determines which ideas and facts stand up to the test of widespread scrutiny. And I love it – It’s exactly what we need in a democratic society and I’m excited to see where it goes.
Me too.
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You didn’t touch the part that the law enact is going to interfere with other country affairs. Alas, when there is law use to terrorize blogger, is there a law stop politikus from hijacking the law, order and national wealth,etc?
Why emo dey?
Any road, your moNSTer update brings back my favourite question: What will people do with so much freedom (of speech)? On a related note, are bloggers entitled to more “freedom of speech” than anyone else on this planet?
LOL
For some people, blogging is a hobby, like collecting stamps. Only that my personal view is that collecting stamps is boring. I’d collected stamps for 4 years, and I’d been blogging for more than that. So I’m right
–> you are rite. I also been collecting stamps, coins, old coins, books but nothing except collecting my thoughts and views. & share it with the rest of the world – for eternity….
If people are posting lies, then there are already laws to stop them. The internet is just a different medium, BUT if someone posts lies, slander etc, then it is well within the rights of those lied against to take them to court.
I would wonder why they are not taking the normal avenue of recourse against these people, and I would also question how these new laws are supposed to work. Would they just be vetoing people from blogging who have opinions they don’t like?
After all, if there were really lies being posted, then people can do the same that they do with news stories etc. They can get a court order to suspend the ‘airing’ or ‘writing’ of the news story whilst the court decides whether or not it breaks the law. So, they should do the same with blog posts and get a suspension on the blog post whilst a court decides whether it is legally allowed to be posted or not.
All these laws already exist. I worry why they need a new law for an old problem that already has laws.
I t hink I remember that website….
“The Internet was good in the sense that a person had the freedom to think and decide.”
The Minister has made an intelligent comment. I have just told a LIE. Come arrest my ass (donkey, as opposed to buttock).
So, prior to the invention of the Internet, people were thought-slaves. Serfs of decision. Incapable of a single idea, original or otherwise. Hmm.. that explains a few things. Like Malaysian politics.