Last Thursday, our caring Minister of Information announced that study is underway to find ways to prevent pornography, especially child porn.
He further described that the move is essential since the Internet has been aggressively used as a medium for such content.
The Prime Minister quickly denied that there's such a plan to impose Internet censorship, as this goes against the Bills of Guarantee crafted in the Communication and Miltimedia Act.
However, both denied that the censorship is geared towards silencing the political descents from using Internet as a medium of communication.
Today, the Information minister said that the decision of the Cabinet meeting scrapped the proposal, but called for a cross ministrial body to monitor seditious messages posted on the Internet and to suggest actions to be taken to anyone posting seditious remarks online.
Someone is clearly lying, or that the intention of having some form of internet censorship is actually to silence so called seditious remarks instead of child porn, or pornography in general.
Why can't they just make their point that it is so called seditious remarks and those who posted the remarks are the actual target of the proposal or study or whatever that the ministry of information initiated?
Why use an excuse of blocking child porn from the Internet as a reason to legitimate their intention, hence, at the same time conviniencely tagging along to block remarks unwanted by the Government?
I praise the effort to curb child porn, so that our fellow Malaysian won't get caught overseas with loads of child porn pictures in their notebook (I need not remind you who got caught, right?). I too feel that such information is easily accessible from the Internet unlike our teen days where we have to go round making friend with book store sellers to win their trust in order to get a copy of outdated Playboy, mind you, is Playboy, not Hustler or other hard core stuff, not to mention child porn. (I must confess I am not child porn fan, in fact I hate child porn)
It is now easier to get hard core, or whatever core DVDs on the street, especially when you dine in any of the footcourt in town, I bet that someone will come and tell you they have "good show" for sale at cheap RM5 whereas back to those days a copy of outdated Playboy costs a whopping RM48 and stock is limited.
What I am illustrating here is that our society is already flooded with porn materials, censoring the Internet will not curb the problem but the old cock still think of the olden day tactic where by banning access to such material, it will not appear in front of us.
What the authority should do is to get rid of those DVDs on the street. Statistics shows that Malaysia Internet penetration rate is less than 25% and a large majority suffered from slow Internet access speed that makes downloading such materials from the Internet a painful task for most Internet users.
Then why the Government wanted to spend it's time and effort, with possibly expensive bills, to take care of far less 25% of our population whereas DVDs can just be obtained virtually anywhere with no pain to download for ages with our slow Internet connection?
Now we know the answer. Child porn is not of their concern, it is so called seditious remarks (definition of seditious can be as wide as if you complain you cannot shit today you probably implicating that the government did not provide proper food in the market, or they just make toilet too hard for you to release, which can be seditious in nature) that the government is interested in.
Thus, I learned another lesson: there's always a hidden agenda for any politician when they speak or do, Government officials are no different.
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