Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Musa Hassan said the Malaysian police is ready for polls and in a sudden U-Turn twist, the Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin says not all bloggers are stupid as some of them are informative, knowledgeable and disseminate positive views on current issues. If you were to follow the local news and development you would most probably find that the general election is “indeed” very near.
All of a sudden you can feel the “peace” judging from the ruling government’s controlled printing and electronic media’s daily news. Most of the analysts predicted November to be the judgement day, right after the fasting month and Malay’s Hari Raya festival. Whether this is to avoid former Deputy Premier Anwar from contesting when he is allowed to do so only after the Apr-2008 deadline is yet to be see.
Recently the war between bloggers and government peaks when the prominent Malaysian political blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin was accused of belittled Islam and tried to stir racial tension in the multiethnic nation. He was questioned for 8 hours in the police station only to find out that it was the “comments” within his blog which invited trouble to Raja Petra. The author claimed he’s not responsible for comments and since his blog is hosted overseas, Malaysia’s law does not apply. 
So going by the same reason by which Raja Petra was being charged, will Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, stock) be charged and hauled up by Malaysian’s police, if and only if the largest political party, UMNO makes a report? FinanceTwitter is talking about the video by “NameWee” which is hosted in Google’s YouTube. The video is set to become another hot debate if indeed Google can be charged for hosting contents which is seditious (depends on individual’s interpretation). The original video has more than 450,000 views with over 3,700 comments before it was translated.
With such huge exposure, it’ll definitely attract the attention of the government. But the question remains whether the Malaysian government will lodge a police report against the Google Inc. And since both Raja Petra and this video contains the same “possible” element of seditious, it would be double-standard if Google is let off but Raja Petra was being questioned for 8 hours by the police, don’t you think?
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- First Case of Bloggers begin Sued in Malaysia
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August 6th, 2007 by financetwitter
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no, google is too big for them to chew. beware, you are just a small fry and they may go after you for disseminating this seditious video via your blog. remember, there are also different rules for the ruling class and commoners.
anyway, dont you get classified as a political blogger else you will be called goblok blogger. my take, its best to stay on as financial blogger, ok.
best wishes.