I am so very excited!!Lawsuits against Jeff Ooi and Ahirudin Attan have finally provided the fuel needed for Malaysian bloggers to set up a National Alliance of Bloggers.
In case you haven't been up to date, Channel News Asia reported about this issue, and it's even been put up on YouTube. Yay for worldwide publicity!
I don't know if you can feel it, but I sense a somewhat brighter future ahead for Malaysia. Yay for freedom of speech in Malaysia! Of course, this doesn't mean we can start spreading lies and slander against the government etc la.
On a side note, here's another example of a 'very educated and well informed Malaysian minister' showing the public just how knowledgable he is: Deputy energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor wants bloggers using locally hosted websites to register with the authorities. Try all you can buddy, I don't think our generation of Malaysian bloggers will allow you put muzzles on us anymore. We'll bite! I think you're one of the reasons why some foreigners still think Malaysians live up in trees, considering the amount of free publicity you got on this issue....on Radio Australia and International Herald Tribune , just to name a few.
Hopefully the National Alliance of Bloggers thinks big. Goodness knows this may be the start of a revolution of government transparency! Quoting what Jeff Ooi wrote:
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
I'm all in for this one!
Below:
Picture 1: Present day =(
Picture 2: Future? =)
2 comments:
i think this blogger alliance is a good and bad idea... shall blog about it next week.
cannot remember the exact quote or who said it but i think it was an american president who said something to the effect that even if he didn't agree with what someone else was saying he would defend his right to say it anyway.
i believe that a person speaks loudest through their actions, their deeds, and not through their words. muzzling people is not the way to prevent disharmony or riots.
what people write about are the things that lead to that disharmony and riots. it is those things and not the writing about them that should be tackled.
"If every tongue were stilled
The noise would still continue.
The rocks and stone themselves would start to sing" -- From the Song Hosana from the rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar.
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