Comments on: Malaysia vs The World (Malaysiakini vs EFF)

By: mike@ourtable

mike@ourtable — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:20:22 +0000

Prem of Malaysiakini has commented that I misquoted him (“putting words in my mouth”) – read his comments above.

I do not believe I misquoted him. Readers are encouraged to read the article by Prem again.

I’ll make a post later, a day or 2 later, on this point.

By: Prem

Prem — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:41:59 +0000

I think you are putting words in my mouth. My article which you quoted, did not say that anonymous blogging is a form of cowardice. I am not of that opinion.

What I did say is that both Jeff and Rocky stand by what they have said in their blogs, and therefore what they say, has more credibility.

By: Fadzli Hashim

Fadzli Hashim — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:09:58 +0000

It’s a false thinking, i very much agree with you. Malaysiakini survives because of lack of education about the world wide web among Malaysians. In other words, Malaysiakini has been blessed by foolishness, suprisingly for quite a long period of time.

Globalization itself is driven by internet anonymity. User-generated contents are becoming more popular than press-released contents. Tagging, rating, voting, linkbaiting and subsribing proves more important than featuring. Most of the time, we choose to sort out a list by “Most Popular” rather than “Most Recent” or “Recently Featured”. Anonymity allows democarcy to work wonders on the internet. And we should appreciate the less filtered contents we’ve been getting nowadays.

We can express more honestly when we feel secured. For the majority, it remains as a belief though, not fact, that we can be anonymous.