Develop new policies to control and discipline, not going after who or what
Multimedia and communications minister Gobind Singh Deo had recently said that authorities will be going after news portals for maintaining public commentaries which are deemed to be insulting, inciting hate on others as well as those which are considered harming. 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 multimed...