Absurdity: Registering Malaysian Bloggers
April 6th, 2007 by aizatto
First it was cellphone numbers, and now bloggers. What next?
So The Star reports that (Malaysian) Bloggers may have to register. Should also check out the feedback that the article is getting.
BLOGGERS using locally hosted websites may be asked to register with the authorities, Deputy Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said.
He said registration was one of the measures the Government was considering to prevent the spread of negative or malicious content on the Internet.
This is completely ineffective. If wanted, I can decide to host my blog overseas, which would give me complete immunity for me. Especially since it’s not that difficult with online transactions being the norm now a days.
Malaysia is going to get alot of bad press for this. Or maybe that’s what they want, attention?
However, he said there were about 50,000 websites registered under the .my suffix and there were a lot of avenues for anyone to host websites with malicious content which could harm the country’s security.
For starters, how does anything using the .my suffix harm the country’s security? It’s just a freaking domain name! I can use any other giberrish example.com.au to “harm the country’ security”. I myself am only using a .com . A domain name is not going to harm the country’s security.
But this brings us to a catch twenty two. So does that mean I’m free from registration, because from that sence alone it sounds like they want bloggers using a *.my domain name to register only.
Marina Mahathir, a blogger and activist, said the Government really should “get real.â€
She said the move “is just going to make Malaysia look ridiculous in the eyes of the world.â€
At this rate, Malaysia should just set up their own Great Firewall. Sure I maybe thinking of ways to get around the system. But that is exactly it, if it can easily be done, why even bother setting it up? This is all simple logic and reasoning, comon people!
Now the question is, will I register?
