April 24, 2011
Najib: But on behalf of my own government, I can say for certain that it is because we know that this is the way forward.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak promised Malaysians today that his administration would never censor the Internet.
There had been two attempts to put a Chinese-style “Green Dam” to filter the Internet in Malaysia in the past while a number of Malaysians protested last week over the free 1 Malaysia email service which they felt was unnecessary.
Speaking at the 1st Malaysian-ASEAN Regional Bloggers Conference here this morning, the Prime Minister declared that Malaysia has one of the most liveliest and one of the freest, “if not most free”, blogospheres in the world.
“Malaysians have to thank Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for this.
“When he was the Prime Minister, and Malaysia was developing our Multimedia Super Corridor, Tun made the promise to the world that Malaysia would never censor the Internet.
