Rocky & I
Rocky held back the crowd when the press conference was about to end, yesterday. Via Malaysiakini:
He later shared a story where he and Ooi crossed swords several years back when Ahirudin was with The Malay Mail and Ooi was already blogging then.
“There was name calling (by the blog readers), he used his blog space to criticise and I used my column in the Sunday Times to respond. Had it gone on and on it would’ve been a healthy debate.
“One thing I didn’t do is to take any legal action against him,” he added.
'Defamation and Sedition: You can't run away'
And the Prime Minister commented on the defamation suits against bloggers, from London, citing defamation and sedition.
"They cannot hope to cover themselves or hide from the laws,” he said.
Am I a "law-hider"? I thought I had published my picture, my name, my email and my phone number when I first started blogging on January 2, 2003! My server is parked right in the heart of MSC!
Responsible journalism must draw a clear line between someone being incriminated over alleged offence, and someone being persecuted after all avenues for recourse are exhausted. That separates an innocent from a convict.
P/S: How nice if the PM could answer Rocky's questions just as fast.
Comments
Not to take legal action is one thing. But it is quite another if there was nothing actionable that came out of you in the first place. On the other hand if you had provided the actionable libel and he chose not to act, that is quite something.
Our politicians always keep harping on these kinds of threats against bloggers and keep keeping advise like as if the bloggers are libelling themselves. Now except maybe for Raja Petra, who seems to get orgasmic pleasure walking the fine line, I really cannot see, Screenshots or the other few I read treading dangerous waters.
For [ DELETED ] to suggest that Jeff has crossed the line and therefore there is something libellous, now that is something I find so hard to conjure up.
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January 24, 2007 08:47 AM