Bloggers United !!!

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In this increasingly mind congested and constipated Bolihland, the New Straits Times Press, instituted Malaysia's first defamation law suit against two bloggers - Screenshots and Rock's Bru. Big media organization with huge financial resources suing 2 bloggers ? Because NSTP felt defamed by the postings in these two blogs ?

A blog by definition is a web log. That is, a storage space in the Internet for individual to express their opinions. Morally, its contents should never be judged by any court of laws except its readers who can counter the opinions in the form of comments. In this regard, it is socially irresponsible to use defamation suits to silence the bloggers as this may have long term negative imlications on our future's freedom of expressions.

My personal opinion is, if NSTP felt that it has been defamed or wrongly insinuated, the right thing for NSTP to do is to exercise its rights to reply by posting comments in the blogs. Or better still, use its huge media machinery to publish her replies, facts, or opinions in all the media under her stable.

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Personally, I would like to view these two defamation suits as an attempt to curtailed "freedom of expressions" and to strike fears onto other bloggers to prevent them from expressing opinions. As it is, the suits has rained fears in the blogsphere. I sincerely hope this socially irresponsible actions of unnecessary defamation suits will not cause the long term damage of muzzling freedom of expressions and inhibiting the free flow of information.

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Bloggers United ! Let the Goliath knows there are lots of Davids out there appreciating freedom of expressions, and are willing speak the truth, nothing but the whole truth.