The episode is almost similar as before. Way back in early 2010, after Rais Yatim the telco, culture minister complaints about Twitter, Facebook and e-mail, many youths, tech savvy people and even some politicians of both sides went in and whack Rais a.k.a Ayah Dino upside down. Many agreed that it clearly violated the no-censorship rule that it was agreed upon during the inception of the Multimedia Super Corridor in the mid-1990s.
Currently in Malaysia, there are 8.5 million Facebook users, one of the top nations that uses this social network besides Friendster and MySpace.
On December 7, former Menteri Besar of Perlis Shahidan Kassim wants Facebook ban for national security interest.
National security my ass, is my natural instinct answer. And of course, it is the same thing as what happened to Rais Yatim when he said that and many youths get very angry at that old man, old fossil.
If you look at his Facebook group page, only 150 people like him. Khairy or Bik Mama or Najib has definitely more than 150, but not this kind of amount for a state-level politician.
And yes, he'd better be ready to get bashed left and right for a backward type of statement.
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