The Home Ministry today issued a statement that they will be monitoring blogs to check if bloggers are posting comments that confuse people on controversial issues.
Well, maybe the Home Ministry should monitor ministers that lie, cheat and spin truths about anything and everything. If the ministers are free to say anything they please then why can't the Rakyat. Leadership by example is it not.....
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said at the moment the ministry was merely advising bloggers against the misuse of blogs.
What?!! Is this some kind of 'read between the lines' kind of threat that more crackdown on bloggers under the ISA are to come???
The audacity to talk about bloggers misusing blogs, what about ministers misusing and abusing their powers for their own benefits???!!!
What a shit load of crap Mr. Deputy Home Minister.....!!!
To all politicians and ministers.....
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Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Malaysian blogger arrested - What happened to freedom of speech and expression!!!
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities have arrested a political blogger for possible sedition after he allegedly insulted police on his Web site, an official said Friday.
Police detained Abdul Rashid Abu Bakar under the Sedition Act late Wednesday to question him about a blog entry that he posted last month, said Victor Sanjos, a police official in the Commercial Crimes Investigation Department.
Abdul Rashid defaced the Royal Malaysian Police's logo by replacing its image of a tiger with a dog and indicated in his comments that he believed Chinese criminal gangs controlled police data systems, Sanjos said.
"His comments were very seditious," Sanjos said.
Sanjos indicated police may release Abdul Rashid soon because they need more time to investigate before deciding whether to charge him.
Sedition is punishable by up to three years in prison in Malaysia.
Some of Malaysia's most popular blogs offer strongly anti-government commentaries and present themselves as a substitute for mainstream media, which are controlled by political parties or closely linked to them.
Government officials often criticize bloggers for allegedly spreading false information and inciting hatred toward authorities.
Earlier this year, a well-known blogger, Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, was charged with sedition for writing an article that implied the deputy prime minister was involved in a high-profile murder. Raja Petra's trial is scheduled to begin in October. -AP 08.08.2008
Police detained Abdul Rashid Abu Bakar under the Sedition Act late Wednesday to question him about a blog entry that he posted last month, said Victor Sanjos, a police official in the Commercial Crimes Investigation Department.
Abdul Rashid defaced the Royal Malaysian Police's logo by replacing its image of a tiger with a dog and indicated in his comments that he believed Chinese criminal gangs controlled police data systems, Sanjos said.
"His comments were very seditious," Sanjos said.
Sanjos indicated police may release Abdul Rashid soon because they need more time to investigate before deciding whether to charge him.
Sedition is punishable by up to three years in prison in Malaysia.
Some of Malaysia's most popular blogs offer strongly anti-government commentaries and present themselves as a substitute for mainstream media, which are controlled by political parties or closely linked to them.
Government officials often criticize bloggers for allegedly spreading false information and inciting hatred toward authorities.
Earlier this year, a well-known blogger, Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, was charged with sedition for writing an article that implied the deputy prime minister was involved in a high-profile murder. Raja Petra's trial is scheduled to begin in October. -AP 08.08.2008
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