The morning after PRU12, as shortly as he'd called for Pak Lah to step down in a light of BN's complicated waste during a polls, Dr Mahathir Mohamad remarked, cheekily, "Someone said you should appreciate bloggers ... we do not know for what." (Dr M: Thank you bloggers, Rocky's Bru, 9/3/2008).
For sure, a Malaysian bloggers had a palm in a outcome of a 12th ubiquitous election. How successful you were back afterwards is arguable though no a single can dispute which you were a force to be reckoned with. Some might have forgotten a actuality which a socio-political blogging could be hazardous to your good being: bloggers were sued, charged with sedition, handcuffed as good as locked up, shadowed as good as tailed, a offices/shops as good as homes were raided (or damaged into), computers as good as laptops seized, interrogated/interviewed, sacked as good as afterwards denied employment, etc. And blogosphere was so lop-sided - bloggers were either anti-BN or anti-Pak Lah. The BN underneath Abdullah Badawi shunned blogs as good as looked down upon bloggers, as good as because of which nothing of their politicians dared to begin a blog. On a other hand, roughly everyone in DAP, PKR as good as PAS had a blog. In a run-up to PRU12, they had a field all to themselves, by stupid default.
After! a PRU12 , BN politicians jumped upon a online bandwagon in earnest. The amicable media was throwing upon as good as most proposed Facebook accounts as good as later joined Twitter as good as Instagram. When Najib became Prime Minister, a pace proposed to quicken. Najib himself led the transformation of a cyberclueless BN politicians from anti-bloggers to cyber-savvy/friendly. His own Facebook became a materialisation as good as is nearing 1.4 million "Likes". His Twitter comment has over 1.3 million "followers".
I recollect presaging during a amicable media convention during University Malaya shortly after a PRU12 which a outrageous "army" of bloggers, cyber troopers as good as amicable media activists from a BN would be trained, armed as good as ready to do conflict with Pakatan's seasoned warriors come PRU13. If a competition had been lopsided during a final election, a entrance a single will be more balanced. In fact, we think a Barisan politicians have held up flattering good as good as might even have surpassed their rivals from Pakatan in this department.Welcome to what PM Najib Razak describes as Malaysia's initial amicable media ubiquitous elections.
It will be full of blood as good as gory, as good as there will be tonnes of lies as good as pollution drifting around upon a Internet. But recollect a beauty of all this: a Intenet as good as amicable media are ALSO a best as good as quickest meant to scold a cyber lies as good as guide a lost souls. For sure, those who evade a amicable media altogether will fall up! on a way side this time, similar to most of them who shunned a bloggers fell upon a wayside in a final ubiquitous election.
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