All is about you, Internet.
UPDATE Minister of Energy, Water and Communications Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik said the government has no intention to censor and regulate internet content. He said we can not break our guarantees of Multimedia Super Corridor. Part of the article of guarantees of MSC was no censorship on internet content….here
I like this paragraph
Monitoring Internet and private broadcasting media comes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communication.
The Information Ministry is only tasked to overlook Radio and Television Malaysia (RTM) and national news agency Bernama.
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As daily practice, I log on to Screenshots (a favourite blog of mine) as usual. I have come across this on his blog; Wang Min Yen wrote him an e-mail about a Letter to the Star Editor published on yesterday 31st July 2006 “Internet need to be regulated too”
Okay, what happen?
They have editorialised Letter to Editor to make the reader say what he/she didn’t mention. Look at the original letter sent to Screenshots.
Dear Sir,
I refer to the article “Government looking at gaps in printing Act” published in The Star on 27 July 2006, where Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow was reported as saying that the government will study if the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 (PPPA) should be amended to include the Internet.
I would like to commend Datuk Fu for noticing that Internet does not come under the supervision of his Ministry.
Yet I am confused as the PPPA is governed by his Ministry.
By announcing that the government wants to consider amending the PPPA to include the Internet, is he suggesting that the government is considering taking Internet out of the purview of Ministry of Energy, Communications and Multimedia?
If that is the case, then Datuk Fu must make sure that the government is also studying the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA).
The government must make sure that if PPPA is amended to include the Internet, then Section 3(3) of the CMA which currently reads “[n]othing in this Act shall be construed as permitting the censorship of the Internet” has to be deleted.
The government also has to announce to all foreign investors who have bought or are planning to buy our story of the Multimedia Super Corridor that we have reneged on our promise.
Let’s not do it through the back door. We are polite people.
Wang Min Yen
“So it justifies why the government wanted to tighten the PPPA as the papers have made Ministers and readers all look so stupid.” mentioned by Screebshots.
Let’s see
25th July 2006
Mainstream Media Need Not Ape Websites, Bloggers - PM
Alternative Media Should Refer To Mainstream Media
27th July 2006
Government looking at gaps in printing Act
28th July 2006
Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin Maidin’s Press Statement (English & BM version)
29th July 2006
No Plans To Amend Act To Control Internet Media
GUESS what? Weblogs (or Blogs) in Malaysia are not viewed as credible sources of information.
30th July 2006
Fu: No plans to amend Act the Star
31st July 2006
~Zam: Controls will enhance Internet media’s credibility
Does government going to tighten Printing Presses and Publication Act 1984 ?
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