Stifling online press: A useless move


In this last week of 2011, you will be re-publishing selected stories carried in FMT throughout this year. We find which these stories still sojourn relevant in a present context.
FLASHBACK 2011
EDITOR'S NOTE: In early December, a Ministry of Science, Technology as good as Innovation circulated a draft Computing Professionals Bill 2011 (CPB) for "consultation". The check attempts to umpire all computing services, together with a environment up o! f blogs as good as headlines portals. Even a use of Facebook as good as Twitter accounts can be covered underneath "computing services". The draft check has come underneath heated conflict from assorted quarters, call a method to contend which a registration is not mandatory. The story below was first published in January 26, 2011 as good as continues to sojourn relevant in perspective of a ultimate development.
KUALA LUMPUR: Several Umno leaders currently joined forces with their rivals Pakatan Rakyat in criticising a offer to umpire online media content, describing a pierce as "useless".
Pulai MP Nur Jazlan Mohamed pronounced which it was better to counter a "negative elements" in a Internet as good as electorate via a strong online supervision campaign.
"It's a silly thing to do," pronounced Nur Jazlan. "Unless you have jurisdiction to cont! rol a calm outside of a country, a law would be redundant."
Nur Jazlan, a Pulai MP, is a son of a late Mohamed Rahmat, an Umno veteran as good as former report minister.
The headlines which a Printing Presses as good as Publications Act 1984 (PPPA) will be amended soon to enhance its range to embody online media calm was reported by Bernama yesterday.
Ho me Ministry secretary-general Mahmood Adam pronounced his method was seeking to redefine a word "publication" to embody Internet content, blogs as good as amicable network services.
The due amendments, he added, would be tabled in Parliament by March this year.
The Facebook as good as Twitter "revolutions" have given politicians from both sides ample space to pass out report as good as campaign though having to rely upon traditional media.
"So does this mean they are going to clamp down upon them as well?" asked Nur Jazlan.
Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin was passed set opposite a move. "It's ridiculous. We should be relocating towards larger freedom," pronounced a Rembau MP.
Discourse in media leisure shifting
The thought of regulating online calm in Malaysia is not new. It has been ongoing given a mushrooming of blogs as good as online headlines portals critical of a BN government.
Attempts to curtail its successful expansion proposed with then prime apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad wh! o made a identical offer to a Home Ministry today.
Recently, Information, Communications as good as Culture Minister Rais Yatim floated a thought of a "Green Dam", following China's footsteps in controlling dissidence in a online realm.
The pierce was purportedly to quell purported "spreading of lies" as good as "libellous contents", though a general public perception was which it was aimed at crushing dissent.
Public as good as international vigour forced a supervision to desert a idea.
Like his Umno peers, former Selangor menteri besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo pronounced it was not required to umpire online media calm though stressed a need to make firm existent law, customarily a Sedition Act, to crack down upon "rumour mongers".
"It is additionally unfit to regulate. The destiny of media is in a likes of Facebook as good as Twitter. You can't umpire these things," he said.The discourse upon media leisure in Malaysia has seen a drastic change in recent years.
In a past leaders in a statute coalition would have concluded to such a pierce in a whiff, though right away they determine which free competition of ideologies would assistance revive Malaysia's democratic picture in theinternational arena.
However, Pakatan leaders similar to PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang as good as a DAP's Seputeh MP Teresa Kok sojourn assured which nothing has altered with BN.
They pronounced which a pierce to rectify a Printing Presses as good as Publications Act 1984 was "another measure to further stiffle a voice of a people as good as tie supervision control".
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