Before moving to DreamHost from a free hosting, I did ask for opinions from many other webmasters, and some of them recommend me Malaysia’s hosting company - as it is quite cheap and the loading time for Malaysian is very fast. Why didn’t I choose the cheaper one, as well as supporting my own country’s web hosting? Because it’s Malaysia, really. First off, I’m fear that if this blog is hosted locally in my country, it would be loading slow to visitors from other countries, especially those in Europe.
And secondly, because I’m fear of Malaysians. Yes, I’m too a Malaysian, that’s why I understand what would a Malaysian do. Previously, there was a news where there’s an idea from the Government of Malaysia to have all bloggers registered, so they could track every single one of us and monitor our activities. But they doesn’t know how big is the cyberspace, they expect every single hosting company on the globe will co-operate with them to track us down? And now, they are at it again, stupidly.
Reported by TheStar
BLOGGERS using locally hosted websites may be asked to register with the authorities, Deputy Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said.He said registration was one of the measures the Government was considering to prevent the spread of negative or malicious content on the Internet.
Shaziman said this while winding up the debate on the motion of thanks on the Royal Address for his ministry.
He added that the ministry did not have any problem with bloggers who identified themselves, and he welcomed blogging activities.
However, he said there were about 50,000 websites registered under the .my suffix and there were a lot of avenues for anyone to host websites with malicious content which could harm the country’s security.
Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang, who interjected when Shaziman was speaking, said the negative comments of several ministers about bloggers reflected their lack of understanding about information flow in cyberspace.
“They should be educated on the vast benefits of blogging, which will help them to interact more with the people. Many politicians overseas already have their own blogs,” he added.
Asked to comment on the matter, Johor Baru MP Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad said bloggers were very aware of their own ethics and responsibility for content on their sites.
While agreeing that there were bloggers who had inflammatory content, he said unidentified bloggers could still be traced through their website addresses.
He added that the problem was also about inflammatory comments by unidentified visitors to the blogs.
Ahirudin Attan of Rocky’s Bru said the move to compel local bloggers to register was effectively the Government trying to control what Malaysians were writing online.
“This violates the Government’s no-censorship policy with regards to the Internet,” he said.
He added that the move would just create fear among the bloggers and would encourage them to host their blogs overseas.
Marina Mahathir, a blogger and activist, said the Government really should “get real.”
She said the move “is just going to make Malaysia look ridiculous in the eyes of the world.”
Blogger Jeff Ooi wondered why the Government was pursuing this course of action.
He said the Government had already set up the Content Forum to deliberate on complaints by any party.
I really don’t hope to see Malaysia to be a joke to people from the other side of the globe, but I’m helpless. Malaysians are funny. I proud to be one of them, so I can bring you people more jokes - but definitely not a stupid one like what they did, I meant those like what the Government did.
To those who have their websites hosted in Malaysia, if you plan to pack your back and move to another host from other countries, you might want to try DreamHost(aff) - a host that offer up to 200GB of diskspace and 2TB of bandwidth at their cheapest plan, and will be out of the Malaysian’s goverment control.
Disclaimer: This is all my opinions, and not promoting disharmony or doing whatever the government said about Malaysian bloggers (like liars, etc). Please do not jail me. Too, although Malaysians are funny, but the place and food here is good - if you plan to visit Malaysia, please do so.
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You and I should be proud of being Malaysian.:grr:
(But because of the Malaysian Goverment is also doing O.O. This make us lost our confident on Malaysian. I know I should actaully proud to be a Malaysian but, it’s all in Goverment hand. Goverment make it happen! If the Goverment doing all right, why should the goverment be afraid about the rumors?
Except if you make it happen…) :song:
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If my server is hosted in Singapore but my webhost company is registered in Malaysia, that mean I need to register as well?
That sucks, man
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i think this thing will not come to act.. :yell:
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@Undertypo: Who knows? The first time they propose this idea, no action taken. I assume it will be the same too this time as it’s really not as easy as what those clever people think. I think people will protest, sign petition etc if this really happens (via online of course, no one wants to be hit on their head by FRU).
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