Saturday, January 20, 2007

Defamation suit to test the limits of freedom of speech in cyberspace


(photo source: Malaysiakini.com)
It could be the first case for blogger being sued in Malaysia. Two popular bloggers, Jeff Ooi and Rocky Bru, received a defamation suits from giant media group, The New Straits Time Press recently. The Centre for Independent Journalists (CIJ) has initiated an endorsed joint action campaign in the run-up to a press conference on Monday, January 22.CIJ believed that it is a blatant action to curb our freedom of expression, information and thoughts.

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http://www.cijmalaysia.org/

Read the related news
http://wwww.malaysiakini.com/news/62380


Surf their blogs
Jeff Ooi runs Screenshots, http://jeffooi.com/
Ahirudin runs Rocky’s Bru , http://rockybru.blogspot.com/

1 comment:

cyberbaguioboy said...

Joshua, this is a sad development. This is just a plain curtailment of freedom of expression.