Thursday, July 26, 2007

Raja Petra interrogated for 8 hours...

...and according to Pete, they didn't even bother about his alleged insult of Islam and the Yang Dipertuan Agong. All they were interested in were who posted some 12 comments which were attached to the police report made by Mat Tyson (Muhammad Muhammad Taib). As in the case of Nat's harassment earlier, it seems like the police want to take the easy way out by hunting for commentators in blogs by going after the blog owner. They failed to do it with Nat, and I am pretty sure they're gonna have a tougher time with Raja Petra.

However, Raja Petra is right that comments by readers could land him in jail if they could do a legal wriggle with the Sedition Act. But keeping in mind that there is a Umno funded cyber-troop who goes round posting racist and extremist comments on peoples' blogs, perhaps that is how they think they wanna go after these influential bloggers. Failing to rebut with at least some semblance of intelligence, the other more sinister method would be to post racist, seditious, and extremist comments and try to land the blog owners in hot soup. Bloggers really have to be vigilant about these troopers...moderate and delete comments, where appropriate. Anyway, Lulu has an interesting theory about Mat Tyson who could be walking into a trap without realizing it.

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