{"id":1389,"date":"2009-03-23T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2009-03-23T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T04:04:11","slug":"suara-keadilan-and-harakah-banned-but-still-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/23\/suara-keadilan-and-harakah-banned-but-still-online","title":{"rendered":"Suara Keadilan and Harakah banned but still online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Ministry has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/3\/24\/nation\/3541646&#038;sec=nation\">censor<\/a> opposition newspapers like <i>Harakah<\/i> (by PAS) and <i>Suara Keadilan<\/i> (by Keadilan\/PKR?) for a period of three months, with immediate effect, since their reporting is <i>&#8220;wrong, sensational and sensitive in nature&#8221;<\/i>. Malaysiakini also <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/100798\">reports<\/a> that DAP&#8217;s Rocket is having issues renewing its annual publishing permit, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I get the feeling that its just another slap in the face for the BN-led government. After all, before this hoopla, I&#8217;d have never read these dailies. I probably still wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you did, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;re going to read them online. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harakahdaily.net\/\">HarakahDaily.Net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suarakeadilan.com\/sk\/\">Suara Keadilan<\/a> are all online, and free for all to read. The latter even comes with an RSS feed. DAP&#8217;s Rocket doesn&#8217;t seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dapmalaysia.org\/newenglish\/rocket-subcription.htm\">online<\/a> yet, but Lim Kit Siang himself is an active blogger.<\/p>\n<p>The BN-led government will retort saying &#8220;but everyone reads it in print&#8221; (which is what they can control). Nay. Now, those that don&#8217;t get the print versions, will get information from their friends that read the online versions. Soon, you&#8217;ll get a scenario like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_whispers\">Chinese whispers<\/a>, which will probably only anger more people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Ministry has decided to censor opposition newspapers like Harakah (by PAS) and Suara Keadilan (by Keadilan\/PKR?) for a period of three months, with immediate effect, since their reporting is &#8220;wrong, sensational and sensitive in nature&#8221;. Malaysiakini also reports that DAP&#8217;s Rocket is having issues renewing its annual publishing permit, as well. 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