Malaysian bloggers must be responsible
Prime Minister Datuk Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Malaysian Bloggers need to be responsible for what they write on the Internet as there are laws on defamation and sedition. According to him these laws were enforceable and bloggers must bear in mind that they could not hide or take advantage of the Internet to do or say things that are against the law.
“They cannot hope to cover themselves or hide from the laws,†he told Malaysian journalists at the end of his three-day working visit here yesterday.
Abdullah was commenting on the legal action against bloggers Jeff Ooi and Ahirudin Attan by the New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd (NSTP), its deputy chairman Datuk Kali-mullah Masheerul Hassan, Group Editor in Chief Datuk Hishamuddin Aun and former Group Editor Brenden John Pereira.
He raised the question of “what was freedom without responsibility,†saying that laws must be respected.
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