{"id":1504,"date":"2009-05-21T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2009-05-21T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:06:56","slug":"blogger-registration-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/21\/blogger-registration-revisited","title":{"rendered":"Blogger registration, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the whole idea behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/05\/blogger-registration-or-becoming-an-international-laughing-stock\">registering bloggers<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/index.php\/malaysia\/27291-proposal-to-register-bloggers-needs-careful-study-rais\">coming back<\/a>. The <i>esteemed<\/i> Information, Communications and Culture Minister, Rais Yatim stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cThe idea is good, but we have to see it from the legal aspects and from the aspect of freedom of Internet use.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is this? A world of X-Men, where there are <i>mutant registrations<\/i>, in where the special powers are that of questioning the current administration and providing a more balanced (or biased) view of the political scene? Ptff.<\/p>\n<p>Curious I am, about the Multimedia Signature Act. I don&#8217;t think anyone in their right minds, is interested in registering the fact that they write a blog. But its great to see the <i>threat<\/i> of bloggers so mainstream, that they&#8217;ve been talking about registration for at least two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the whole idea behind registering bloggers is coming back. The esteemed Information, Communications and Culture Minister, Rais Yatim stated: \u201cThe idea is good, but we have to see it from the legal aspects and from the aspect of freedom of Internet use.&#8221; What is this? A world of X-Men, where there are mutant registrations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[939,940,137],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogger","tag-blogger-registration","tag-malaysia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-og","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}