Develop new policies to control and discipline, not going after who or what
Going after news portals may not be fair in the sense that these websites are open to public for reading and providing commentaries over news or articles of interests. Some may even suggest that the authorities should instead go after those commentators for the said statements or words penned on the news or articles. Is going after these kind of people adding value?
There are millions of viewers and commentators out there. Is the authorities planning to go after them one by one, arrest them all, charge them in court and imprison them? There will be no end to such incidents. Practically, our nation's prison will be packed with these kind of people if the government were to serious in enforcing some of those multimedia rules.
Come up with policies to get the Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to control and discipline the wave in the worldwide web is much more effective instead of going after individuals over the incitement of hate, threats, extremism or insults. This can be done with the assistance of web developers and the adoption of the most advance technologies.
Furthermore, the new government should also understand that for decades under the previous ruling BN-UMNO, people, especially from the rural areas and villages has been deeply implanted and educated on racism, racial and religious superiority and the greatness over other beings in this country. Such negative elements has been in place from educational point till people grew up to be adults. Because of the system laid down by the previous regime, people tend to be easily emotional on certain issues, feeling hurt for nothing, being suspicious over others all the time.
As such, the entire education system that demonstrates racial and religious elements, that are implanting our generations for decades with negative thoughts on racism, racial and religious superiority and the greatness over other beings should be done away with and replaced with a new learning system that fully embrace harmony and the middle path in our daily lives.
This new government is not even a year to-date. There's still a long way to go in the process of reforming the entire nation, to turn it into a New Malaysia. 61 years of BN rule, corruption, racism, religious extremism cannot be over ran in just couple of weeks or months. Things may turn into chaos.
Therefore, the government should be given more room to revamp the nation. It is not even their first term in governance. The civil service must be revamped first, the public policy should be changed, the parliamentary system should be reformed, the important institutions, such as the judiciary system, the police force and other organs should be reform first in order to ensure a proper turnaround of the entire nation's system, our people's thinking, habits and practices.
To change, reform and to improve takes a longer time to ripe, to damage it, destroy them, it just takes seconds to press the button.
