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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.

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.

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.

“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.

“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.

Just a week ago, we heard about Malaysia gonna filter the net. And now they gonna make us registering our blog (It was kinda impossible i think). But this all is just the government thinking and no concrete action has been done to censor the web or blogger.

Quote from the MSC Bill of Guarantees.

• Provide a world-class physical and information infrastructure.
• Allow unrestricted employment of local and foreign knowledge workers.
• Ensure freedom of ownership by exempting companies with MSC Malaysia Status from local ownership requirements.
• Give the freedom to source capital globally for MSC Malaysia infrastructure, and the right to borrow funds globally.
• Provide competitive financial incentives, including no income tax for up to 10 years or an investment tax allowance, and no duties on import of multimedia equipment.
• Become a regional leader in intellectual property protection and cyberlaws.
• Ensure no Internet censorship.
• Provide globally competitive telecommunications tariffs.
• Tender key MSC Malaysia infrastructure contracts to leading companies willing to use the MSC Malaysia as their regional hub.
• Provide an effective one-stop agency - Multimedia Development Corporation.

They already ensure us, that there is not gonna be a censorship for the internet. And now what happen? What happen to the guarantee they give us? Is it just a bullshit?

Most commonly censored website.

• Pornographic websites
• MySpace — in the Middle East
• Wikipedia
• Political blogs and websites
• Religious websites
• Google

I’m not gonna say this is a list of web that gonna be censored by Malaysian Government. But this is the most common list. I doesn’t care if they gonna censored Pornographic websites and MySpace. But what the hell wikipedia, Religious websites and Google doing inside that list

Anyway it is our responsibilities as Malaysian citizens to be heard. That we respectfully disagree with any censorship of the Internet and blogger registration. If you have a blog or a website, now is the time to be heard. Blog and write about this before we see our country joining this list.

But if they still want to censored the net. There is a thousand way to by pass the system See Boing Boing’s Guide to Defeating Censorware.

via Lowyat.NET