It seems that blogging has became (possibly a big) part of the political culture in Malaysia, besides a good source for local food hunting.
The possibility that newspapers will have to quote blogs as a source of news reports in the future amuses me - I thought so, after reading this news article on Hannah Yeoh's encounter with a few person who had tried to attack her while she was driving alone on The Star Online and Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat's statement on his blog regarding a comment that Tan Sri Muyhiddin Yassin had made about him. These two politicians (alongside the prime minister, ex-prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir and a great deal of other politicians) blogged about the incident / press release / statements online, which the conventional press then quotes.
Freedom of speech and control of blog contents would probably be the next in line to be monitored, I presume?
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