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Detention Threat for Malaysian blogger
Malaysian Patriot writes "The Malaysian blogosphere is currently in uproar as one of their most famous bloggers, a political observer named Jeff Ooi, has been threatened with action under the country's draconian ISA (Internal Security Act) law which allows a person to be detained without trial if he is thought to threaten "national security". The whole problem started with a comment made by a reader of the blog. The comment is alleged to have been insulting of Islam. A national newspaper (whose editor has frequently been a target of Ooi's blog) took up the story and accused the blogger of insulting Islam, while Ooi in his defence states he warned (and later deleted) the offending commenter when he was alerted to it. Malaysian bloggers meanwhile are outraged that a blogger should be held responsible for comments made by readers. In the case of Ooi's blog, which attracts thousands of hits per day, it is logistically impossible for Ooi to read and moderate every comment made. The whole saga can be followed in Jeff Ooi's Screenshots blog."
That, dear sir, brings a tear to my eye. I was walking forlornly through the rain last week, throughly depressed at the evident truth that nobody knows how to troll anymore. And today, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and you have shown me that there is at least one person who still practices the ancient art. Thank you.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
The Big Bang is a testable hypothesis, and quite frankly we can reasonably discuss what form it took, but not if it was. The if of it is no longer in doubt. Not believing in the big bang isn't much different than not believing in the light coming from your computer monitor at this point.
This of course does not preclude the existance of God, there's something to be said for the Bible as a metaphore. While Maxwell's equations are, no doubt, more useful and precise than "Let there be light" they do lack a certain something when it comes to telling people where they came from.
...under the country's draconian ISA (Internal Security Act) law which allows a person to be detained without trial if he is thought to threaten "national security"...
They have the Patroit Act too?
You do know that power has absolutely nothing to do with the Patriot Act don't you?
Of course not. You were just talking out of your ass like a typical slashbot. And of course the idiotic moderators thought you were "insightful". Right.