Two Lodge Reports Against ‘good man’
In today’s New Straits Times, page 16:
Two lodge reports against ‘good man’
KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.
Two bloggers lodged police reports today against an anonymous writer who posted seditious messages on their blogs.Peter Tan, 39, and Ameer Zulkifli, 34, made the report at the Brickfields police station against the sender, nicknamed “good man”.
Ameer, a management consultant from Subang Jaya, said he lodged the report because the messages were malicious.
“It has come to the point where the postings are too blatant. Action must be taken against such people,” he said when met at the Brickfields police headquarters.
“Good man” first posted abusive messages containing racial slurs on Tan’s website log petertan.com/blog last Sunday.
Tan, from Penang, said the messages were posted early this month and he deleted most of them but kept one for the police report.
Ameer, who goes by the nickname “Mack”, received a seditious message from “good man” yesterday in a commentary forum column on his blog brandmalaysia.com.
He said his blog management software prompted him to approve the message but after reading it, he decided not to publish it on the weblog commentary post as it was seditious and explicit.
Ameer advised responsible bloggers to notify the police of seditious messages posted in their blogs.
The online version is here.
September 18th, 2005 at 16:00
I wonder will the police take any action about this case? :\
September 18th, 2005 at 22:14
Yeah, I wonder if the police can find him. Lots of cyber criminals are able to fool the cops by quickly saving all their data and then hiding the CDs, diskettes, flash drives, etc. in unusual places.
September 19th, 2005 at 10:57
To Goombie:
From what I heard about the Malaysian police, they probably can. All you really need is his IP address, which I think was furnished. If they can get their hands on his computer, even if he deleted the files, you can still retrieve the data from as the records will be there SOMEWHERE. You can still retrieve data even if you reformat your comp. It is, however, expensive.
To CLF:
Our police works on media pressure. ‘Nuff said.
To Peter:
Thank you for the update.
Silly Pat.
September 22nd, 2005 at 23:16
[...] Admittedly, this handbook excites me as it comes out so much timely, moreover to the latest mishap over the Malaysia’s blogosphere due to a very ungrateful bugger who tried to diminish bloggers reputation, which were reported here, here and here. I would like to quote what Julien Pain, Head of the Internet Freedom desk at RSF said on the topic Bloggers, the new heralds of free expression. Bloggers need to be anonymous when they are putting out information that risks their safety. The cyber-police are watching and have become expert at tracking down “troublemakers.” While we Malaysians in general still enjoy the very least of freedom of expression on internet, let’s not spoilt the credibility of the growing blogosphere, much to satisfy one’s own agenda. The cyber-police are everywhere monitoring the blogosphere activities, which eventually will track down the one with malicious intention. [...]