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A friend (hi Dave) asked me to have a look at this site a while ago, and there are few words to describe just how sadly hilarious it is. I can't really explain what it is, other than that it's a page about ninjas, but have a look anyway and read through the Hate Mail section. And if you read the Hate Mail section, you'll find that the little kid who wrote that site was actually sued by a mother who had a kid who read the page and went berserk about ninjas and became something of a teenage delinquent (read story here).
Amazingly enough, the kid won the lawsuit, despite telling the judge that
"you couldn't even pop a boner if you really wanted to and you should shut your frigg'n mouth before somebody pees in it."
The judge overruled the appeal, because it was a private website, and if that website was censored, it would be an infringement on the kid's right to free speech. Good call, I say. A personal website is essentially private property - think of all the websites that could have been shut down if that appeal went through... And if we can't have freedom of speech on the most unregulated form of communication in the world (the Internet), there's just no hope.
Of course, there isn't real freedom of speech in Malaysia. Media is controlled, press is controlled, if you distribute "politically slanderous material" you could be arrested without trial and/or proof under the Internal Security Act, and there definitely wouldn't be anything like a Speakers' Corner here, unless you have some kind of deathwish, or an affinity for spending time in prison. In fact, I subscribe to the Far Eastern Economic Review (ok, laugh, whatever, but when you grow up you'll know how important reading about the economy is :P), and there were a few issues where FEER criticized Dr. Mahatir (our PM) for his exchange rate policy and domestic social policy...and the government actually banned the mailing/selling of those issues to the public. Isn't that evil?? It's just ridiculously childish - talk about not being able to take criticism. The Economist also recently published an article about Mahatir which was slightly less than laudatory, and the government is now busy demanding an apology and a reprint. Idiots. Thank goodness for the Internet, I say.
But anyway, as I was saying...that kid won the lawsuit. And quite frankly, if that mother's kid was swayed by a website written by a kid who looks like this, you can really only blame the mother :P