Blog-watch
TheStar: Ministry watching blogs playing up controversies http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/26/nation/2645115&sec=nation
KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry is monitoring blogs to check if bloggers are posting comments that confuse the people on controversial issues. At the moment, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said the ministry was merely advising bloggers against the misuse of blogs. “So far, we are only telling them not to use their blogs as a mechanism to confuse people or as a weapon against those they don’t like.” Chor said this yesterday when asked about bloggers posting comments on the National Fatwa Council’s edict banning Muslims from practising yoga. “However, if the comments are deemed as posing a threat to the public security, we will view them seriously,” he said, adding it would be left to the minister to act on such cases. “The ministry is always monitoring developments in the blogosphere,” Chor said after the launch of the National Anti-Drug Agency’s new programme, Rakan Anti-Dadah (Rada) to eradicate drug abuse, here yesterday.
Guess what? Home Ministry is now stalking on blogs (on a wider scale). I wonder how many blogs can they vet and how much man-power is needed for this job. It’s our fault; we are the ones paying their salary for doing this. Our country’s politics is at it’s lowest point yet.
After reading the article above, I think it will be beneficial for the Ministry to elaborate and clear some doubts on what is considered as “threat to the public security”, “those they don’t like” and “confuse people”. You see some people get confused very easily even though the subject may be as easy as A-B-C. Should we be blamed for other’s stupidity and lack of understanding? And now…Bloggers who sit in front of their PC and type words are dangerous people that will threaten public security. I guess that makes bloggers more dangerous than rapist, gangsters, robbers, etc, who many are still on the loose.
P.S: Does anyone know if the Home Ministry are hiring part-timers for the job?
KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry is monitoring blogs to check if bloggers are posting comments that confuse the people on controversial issues. At the moment, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said the ministry was merely advising bloggers against the misuse of blogs. “So far, we are only telling them not to use their blogs as a mechanism to confuse people or as a weapon against those they don’t like.” Chor said this yesterday when asked about bloggers posting comments on the National Fatwa Council’s edict banning Muslims from practising yoga. “However, if the comments are deemed as posing a threat to the public security, we will view them seriously,” he said, adding it would be left to the minister to act on such cases. “The ministry is always monitoring developments in the blogosphere,” Chor said after the launch of the National Anti-Drug Agency’s new programme, Rakan Anti-Dadah (Rada) to eradicate drug abuse, here yesterday.
Guess what? Home Ministry is now stalking on blogs (on a wider scale). I wonder how many blogs can they vet and how much man-power is needed for this job. It’s our fault; we are the ones paying their salary for doing this. Our country’s politics is at it’s lowest point yet.
After reading the article above, I think it will be beneficial for the Ministry to elaborate and clear some doubts on what is considered as “threat to the public security”, “those they don’t like” and “confuse people”. You see some people get confused very easily even though the subject may be as easy as A-B-C. Should we be blamed for other’s stupidity and lack of understanding? And now…Bloggers who sit in front of their PC and type words are dangerous people that will threaten public security. I guess that makes bloggers more dangerous than rapist, gangsters, robbers, etc, who many are still on the loose.
P.S: Does anyone know if the Home Ministry are hiring part-timers for the job?
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