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I don’t read newspapers or any mainstream news publication, I read blogs, I got this article link from a blog by the way. Lets go through the report.

SITIAWAN: Registering bloggers may be a “stricter� way to stop cyberspace writers from spreading disharmony and lies. 

Acknowledging that the registration of bloggers was a difficult task, Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha said that it needed the cooperation of other countries

That line sounds as if they took it from the X-men series. They think bloggers are some type of mutants that need to be registered. My guess is that someday bloggers will need to line up an apply for some blogger card.

Kong said: “We need to have stricter cyber laws to prevent these bloggers from disseminating disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies. 

“We are talking about creating cyber laws to control those who misuse the Internet,� he added.

Why is it that every government seems to have this idea that the Internet is something that needed to be control.

Kong noted that the high number of bloggers in the country was a good development if they used the Internet constructively. 

However, he said, some of them would put up sensational or controversial articles or images to attract readers to their blogs. 

I do agree with his point that, these days some bloggers are following the mainstream media newspapers publications. Just as how mainstream media newspapers will put up sensational or controversial articles or image to attract readers to read and buy their publication, some bloggers are also doing that in order to get more traffics to their site. Some bloggers are just doing what they see is working for mainstream publications by applying it to their blogs.

“We want our bloggers to be responsible, to keep within the rules and not put up seditious articles that can create disharmony and chaos,� he said. 

I want our blog readers to be smart enough to differentiate which blogs to take seriously and which blogs to not take seriously. Instead of wasting time in creating stupid laws, educated the blog readers and consumers of how to differentiate and identify which articles are considered seditious and which is not.

“Now we have cyber laws to check such misuse but the laws need to change to keep up with the times.
 
“This is because technology changes faster than our laws,� he said yesterday after opening the inaugural computer fair at Dewan Merdeka in Seri Manjung, near here. 

The fair was organised by the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom).  

The problem is not with the bloggers or or the freedom of the Internet. It is pretty obvious that the freedom of speech and the Internet is the freedom to create lies. People create lies in the media all the time, blogs are now another form of media.

The problem that they see here is that blog readers might not be able to differentiate the lies. To overcome this problem is not to have stricter rules and laws. My suggestion as I’ve always said everytime, is that the government should setup their own blog, an official blog in order to disproof these other blogs that they are calling as seditious and are spreading lies.

This way we will always have the two site of the story. This way we know what is politically correct and what is not. It is then up the the readers to believe which facts, unless it was their intentions all the time to not give us that option, the option to choose which to believe. Then this solution wont work.

I’ve been watching and reading blogs from the Malaysian blogosphere for quite sometime. I’ve not seen any official blogs from the governments, If there is any, please drop me a line.

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