Zainuddin said in the quest for political power, people were willing to resort to slander, disseminate lies, use unauthorised sources or choose not to verify the source of the information.

"This is very dangerous as they are writing and taking steps to gain power. Their objective is to topple the government, widen the reach of their political doctrine and assist any parties for political purposes," he said.

Zainuddin said he concurred with the monitoring and registration proposal forwarded by the Energy, Water and Communications Ministry.

Zainuddin discussed the blog issue and how the island republic was approaching the matter in a meeting this morning with his counterpart, Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Dr Lee Boon Yang.

The Malaysian minister said Singapore had formulated a mechanism for the registration of blogs which consistently churned out articles on politics.

He pointed out that Singapore had a class licensing framework to supervise new media forms such as blogs, subjecting them to certain code of ethics under the supervision of the Media Development Authority.
~Politically-motivated Blogs Must Be Monitored And Registered, Says Zam, Bernama, April 6th 2007

What's interesting to me is that, while the government is so intent on weeding out critical thinkers and bloggers who question the government's action through registering them, what are they doing to register our 4.9mil unregistered voters? How about making it compulsory for every Malaysian citizen?

I'd also like to congratulate the bloggers who made the formation of the National Alliance of Bloggers possible last Thursday. I feel like I'm missing out on it all. Nevertheless, it feels somewhat surreal to be part of digital democracy and the blogging revolution.