IF OUR ANCESTORS had Rais' train of thought (oops, I mean hypothetically, and I do mean hypothetically cos even apes have better brain power than Rais, which I'll prove later), we'd all still be living in the Dark Ages since starting a fire would've been seen as a form of deviance of act against God and a fireless culture.

Then again, we may all still be apes. But apes could think better than Rais, so they allowed the wheel of evolution to move them on and thus gave birth to Homo-Erectus. (Make no mistake Mr, Rais, Homo-Erectus and 'Saiful having an erection' is NOT the same thing).

'We are not saying they cannot use Facebook or Twitter, but when using such facilities, they must upkeep the values taught by Islam, Buddhism or Christianity to maintain our culture,' he was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper.

what is this idiot talking about??? only he knows. i have one for him...

'We are not saying they cannot do their reporting in the govt controlled MSM, but when using such facilities, they must upkeep the values taught by Islam, Buddhism or Christianity i.e. of reporting the truth and not spinning lies.'

for people of malaysia to go forward,it is this sort of moronic umno leadership ,indoctrinated bloody racist n corrupted to core which malaysian ought to 'ban' n not the internet!!

Their greatest fear....is that all truth shall be exposed thru the net....therefore is impossible for they to stop it...before their own eyes! Probably will led to their fall in coming 13th elections!

""We are not saying they cannot use Facebook or Twitter, but when using such facilities, they must upkeep the values taught by Islam, Buddhism or Christianity to maintain our culture,' he was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper.""
this moron minister rais shoots without using his brain,he kocktalks as if only in malaysia one can finds islam,christianity or buddhism.!!!look at his way of putting it,he n his umno triad are actually scared n refuse to see rakyat becoming well informed with the truth,with how this country has been squandered of billions by the corrupted to core lawless umno thieves n bandits!!they are very worry that the rakyat would become smart n stay ahead of them,that would spell the end for the umno clan of thieves n bandits who survives only on bloody racist rhetoric n empty sloganeering.

So? Why not ban internet? I think it's better to go back to the past. We really don't need civilization. I suggest that we close all avenues to civilization and return to Stone Age. We are indeed very lucky because we've a minister who's very intelligent and a real genius. He could smell disaster if we take a step further. Hurry up! Our future is in the past. Abandon all your notebooks and all modern gadgets because they're going to take you to ruins. Hey! Rais, why not leave your notebook to me, or do you have any?

Rais the moron forgets that Saudi Arabia is WEST of Malaysia too. So I can argue that Arabism is western too. Moron.

Shalom

Internet doesn’t, its goons like Rias himself and those from UMNO/BN that systematically erode our country’s cultures. Good culture and good will has all been dilute and eroded, only bad corrupted culture remains.

Culture of corruption, inciting hatred, spinning, lying, deceiving, terrorising its own people, have been fine tuned into an art form. Legalise robbery through NEP and issuance of AP to selected few are our culture, lately, walking away with murder seems to be part of our culture too.

Do Malaysian really have any culture to be proud off?? A culture of bravery to kick-out these UMNO/BN crooks would be a good start.

Rias Pretty hard Dick (PhD),
is talking through his dick again.
Go sit on your own flag staff if u can not think of useful progressive things to say.
Why r u so afraid that the Malays' eyes are being opened by the internet ?
What r u afraid of, that they will see that u r a useless stumbling block to progress?

This nuthead again? He changed his mode along time ago from the "Smart Mode" to the "Stupid Mode".
Now his problem is that he's stuck in the "Stupid Mode" and can't get out of it. His brain must still be using the old XT processor!...always hang....Wahahaha!

eh eh guys a sudden swift thought: perhaps our info minister has been picked to be the `fall guy' you know like in every court there is a jester - like we had our previous foreign affairs sputterer and foot in the mouth nazri. because how can a officer of this level not think?

Fcuk this fcukwit and fcukhead RAIS..... he has no more ammo to then to make us Malaysians all look very stupid....

the latest directive from our information & communications govt servant flies against the face of IT.
in a single sentence, our professed progress and standing shoulder to shoulder with the world's knowledge group is eroded.
it takes heaps to build but a statement mired in ignorance and shortsightedness would dismantle in moments.

Spoken like a desperate dinosaur who has just spotted a huge meteor approaching. It's quite shocking to see such a well-educated person spew out such ignorant nonsense and the saddest thing of all is that he doesn't seem to realise he's become a 'laughing stock'...poor fool!

Haiaa...all the minister should stop giving comments for a while..take a nap, a good breakfast and a walk in the park...to clear their mind so that they can give a proper & make sense comments..

this man should sack his speech-writer!

The Malaysian government has warned against excessive use of micro-blogging sites like Facebook and Twitter, arguing that they could erode the country's culture, a report said on Sunday.

ERRR.... ANAK YATIM, HOW ABOUT YOU AND YR BUNCH OF MISFITS QUARANTINE YOURSELVES ON THE PEDRA ROCK? WE WILL GET SPECIAL PERMISSION FROM SINGAPORE THAT YF FCKRS WILL VOLUNTEER TO USE ONLY NATURAL BONFIRES TO WARN ALL SHIPS FROM EVER APPROACHING.

IF you want to FILTER freedom of speach.... why not close down TM-net.....

I know the 4th floor boyz will sure BAN this idea... Cos WHAT they can do without internet in office hour...
THEY will BORED to death without something to buy times.

Internet has made everything "possible": liars,thieves,corrupters,the corrupted ,demagogues ,the hypocrites ,it has exposed them . Nothing can be hidden anymore. So watch out ,thieves !
Today,without the Internet which is the offshoot of the digital age,Malaysian Govt will be paralyzed ,including all specialist hospitals ,communication centers,satellites included .
So,minister ,sorry, I mean buffoon,you love the ancient way of doing things. Not surprising ,your followers still have a problem understanding the difference between race and religion. You can never ever be a statesman

I'm sure Mr. Rais does not have a Facebook account. He actually wandered into a porn site called F*ckbook.

Hello RAIS, the only noble culture UMNO/BN morons can talk about is probably CORRUPTION & RACISM, nothing else.

Blah blah blah blah... and he goes on.

The government has got 100% control over the news papers, TV channels and radio. The only media that the government has not got complete control is the internet and SMS.

Everything that comes out of the government media are 100% lies, deceptions, racist, incitement of hate towards other races/religions and spinning of the truth. While on the other hand the internet is truly democratic. Some information are true, some are lies and some are spins etc. It is up to the reader to make up his or her mind.

All the government is worried about is that they are loosing control of information flow and the rakyat are getting wise to UMNO’s behaviour and tactics. If UMNO does not get control of the media or change their ways they are in serious trouble.
Pakatan at the moment is our only hope to a path to democracy.

As usual the MISinformation & MIScommunication Minister Rias/Lies (both sama juga) is having another
'feet in the mouth' moment sprewing more crap. Why is he AND any other leader in the BN govt, not addressing the substantail issue of blatant corruption and bad governance. Real cheeky of him to fault
the eNews when he allows, unfettered, the lies and misinfo in the govt MSM. Rais/Lies is a Naughty & Not Nice Nincompoop.

Mr Rais said users must not be influenced by what they see and hear when using the Internet. 'We must be strong in our belief and culture because the identity and image of our country depends on us,' he said
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Pak Rais cakap ni banyak pening. Silap-silap depa boleh chakap 'alright I speaking london now. Kata users must not be influenced by what they see and hear. Tapi entah siapa sudah entot-entot boleh lari. Wahai warga Malaysia, biarkan orang Melayu UmNo ni, kita don't influenced by what they do and say sudah. Tukartiub apa khabar? Tengah cari apa rupa ikan kenarak ni.

Erode a country's culture? More like eroding your future chances of having a majority in the elections more like it.

I would suggest the UMNO Malays not to use the Internet.
They get confused very easily. They can't even comprehend one word - "ALLAH'.
If used by others, the word will confuse them.

Chicken Rais: Internet can erode the country's culture

We fully agree with the learned and western educated Minister. This is the type of wisdom that we hope is not merely another bit of “academic exercise” that he proclaimed of his western generated “doctoral” dissertation when he accepted to position of a minister. We might wish to add, not as an academic exercise, to his profound pronounce that “Internet can erode the country's culture” the some selected “stuff” that “can erode the country's culture”
1.Exchanging one’s principles or a ministerial position can also erode the country's culture
2.Misinforming the rakyats by distortion or omission can also erode the country's culture
3.Rampant corruption of your ministerial friends can also erode the country's culture
4.Abuse of power can also erode the country's culture
5.Thefts of rakyat’s money can also erode the country's culture
6.Murders not investigated can also erode the country's culture
7.Perverting judicial processes can also erode the country's culture
8.Perverting constitutional processes can also erode the country's culture
9.Perverting law and order by the government and polis can also erode the country's culture
10.Selling one’s principles for a few pieces of silver can definitely erode the country's culture.

Dll.

But of course the various item listed are mere “academic exercise” but picking on internet is wholly befitting that of a typical sellout, principle deficit chicken Rais.


Chicken Rais Yatim, the information and communication minister, said Muslims and other religious groups must be wary of the Internet as it was introduced by the West. Chicken Rais should know what he is talking about, he got his "academic exercised" PhD introduced by the West.

$emuanya OK!

Someone said that change is the only consistent thing in life. So UMNO cannot handle change and progress. So UMNO has to go. We will change you and by GOD the changes brought by Western technology will enable us to change you! Kaaaaaaaaaaboooooooooooooooom!

Ok, Mr. Rais said that users must not be influenced by what they see and hear when using the Internet. Since I only surf the net for news, I would like to ask one question.

I read from various blogs that our pm najib is so scandal laden he has failed to address any one of them (swear in mosque cannot count wan), yet the pm proclaim that his 1Malay$ia is intact.

RPK have produce many documents of police reports against the corrupt igp musa which our MSM failed to publish.

Now Mr. Shoeshine Rais. Which of the above is true and which is false? What? Louder please !

Rais Yatim, the information and communication minister, said Muslims and other religious groups must be wary of the Internet as it was introduced by the West.

MC: WOW !!! So SHUT DOWN MAS !!
Coz Airplanes were also invented by the West !!

Go back and ride a Kereta LEMBU
coz it was Henry T Ford who invented the car.

SHUT DOWN THE KLSE
coz Parameswara never bought and sold shares !!

Throw AWAY your Handphones
coz of where it came from

this list can be very very very very looooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng...

BUT HIGHLY PROMOTE CORRUPTION !!!
Coz it was INVENTED by dUMNO !!!

I SPIT in YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION you sub-species mongrel !!!
I ALSO TRY TO URINATE IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION !!!!
(even if you change your MODE !!!)

information and communcations minister at that!
tantamount to pushing for tempurung ruling, where every malaysian need to dive under one and live like si nyenyok himself.

another kepala lembu ...otak udang...fellow from an UMOOONO...MOOlayu>>MOO MOO MOO MOO...geleng kepala..MOO MOO MOO...

Like every invention, it can be used for good or bad. To say that its from the west and so must be cautious its a stupid advice and to say that we must not be influenced by it ,comes from an ignoramous.

How is one going to learn and advance when most of the informations are either censored or altered to suit the agendas of the ruling party. ? Its good that the internet was here or else the people would still be in the dark. Another step we need is to liberalise our education system to a more 'opened' and 'truthful ' style. An education that encourage the student to think and not just 'drink' as it was today.
If one were to look at an advance country, one would see that all are free to think and 'drink' what they want to 'drink' . Not here where before the only drink is Amno-Cola.

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
-- Plato

Plato must have known that one day, such fools would exist in Malaysia!

Lais Yatim...

He wants Malaysian to go back to Sultan mahmud age where...

a. Police use whistles instead of walkie talkie

b. Messages are sent using smoke signals.

c. Interstate journeys using Gajah and Lembus.

d. News are by way of word of mouth.

Only lais using a telephone to talk to himself.

Internet can speed up the change a corrupt government which is democratically elected.
I believe this is the overriding argument in Malaysia.

Wake up old fashioned Rais ! You belong to the old guards. This is the new decade 2010. This is precisely the kind of modern day living technology needed to rid the country of archaic mentality such as yours. Your era of the controlled newsprint on paper pulp is over. You have lost control totally over the media. However you dinosaurs can slow it down by reducing the internet penetration into the population. That way you guys can still rule for another 1000 years much like the Talibans. No need for any high speed broadband connection for the people. The faster we get the information the faster you guys get extinct. You should slow it down. Throttle it back to the good old 56kbps dial up, that way we would not get videos on youtube of misdeeds.

What a joker still sleeping in his slumberland. With a Dr. added in front to his name. Even a school drop-out like me can see the importance of IT.

Hello Loktor, what culture are you talking about? If the culture of rampant corruptions by all your BN politicians and power abuses, then I have to agree with you.

Ada mata pandang, ada telinga dengar, ada mulut diam. Jangan buat malulah bagi kita semua. Masih tidurkah? Masih zaman tujuhpuluhan & lapanpuluhan? Ini tahun 2010. Kalau orang putih yang mempekenalkan INTERNET (bahasa ini pun kita pinjam dari orang putih) dan bukan tradisi kita, kenapa semua agensi kerajaan menggunakan komputer dan internet untuk buat berurusan? Menteri apa pula awak ini. Saya ingat sudah sampai masanya awak bersara.

This is a case of one Rais ed moron trying to make everyone of us morons ... bringing us back to Hang Tuah's time . Probably Blogs , facebooks and twitter is too much for him to grasp or understand. I bet he himself does'nt know how to set up a face book .

Dear Rice
I always thought that our culture is about the following:-
1. Foundation based on discrimination along lines of creed, colour of skin, ethnicity, country of origin & other artificial divides.
2. Religious bigotry.
3.Corruption.
4.Abuse of power.
5.Theft of public coffers.
6.Rent seeking.
7.Handouts for some so-called "lucky souls".
8.System of handicaps, privileges, discounts & benefits accorded to some only.
9.Non-meritcracy.
10. Exclusivity of certain businesses to one class of people & prohibition to others.
11. Non-admission of certain educational institutions to some communities.
12. Never Ending Policies.
13 And many other forms of discrimination, exclusivity, special treatment etc.

Well said Jayenjr.....


UMNO minster like this anak Yatim will hit out at anything that does not suit them. Their cyber trroper such as some Fakzid muhammad who tries to inflame malays in the facebook faces such challenge from pple like yours truly and will lose..


that makes the UMNO regime minister worry

In case you haven't notice yet Mr Info Minister, many people of this day and age have CHANGED THEIR MODE.

And oh by the way, we don't need the Internet to destroy the country's culture.

With severed cow-heads, murdered Mongolians, not-enough-manpower-punya-PDRM, witnesses-dropping-from-MACC buildings, HP6 Cabinet Ministers, why, just UMNO alone is doing a fine job screwing the Malaysian culture.

a right thinking and righteous malaysian should not be influenced by the umnoputras in what they see and hear when they read the news thru the umno controlled media........becos these umnoputras have squandered the country in billions of dollars ( not in ringgits ) all these years since independence........the umnoputras are blocking your progress towards advancement in life and they have stifle the growth of the economy.......they are now going to silence your freedom of speech and faith of worship........example by burning the churches.......by charging uncle pete under ISA........now they are pursuing lim guan eng......they have already killed teoh beng hock.......next it will be any one of us!!!!.....so, beware fellow right thinking malaysian!!!!!

tiew niamah rais!!!!.....anak yatim!!!!

I think all our ministers need to be taught that if "they cannot say anything 'intelligent' at all, then don't say 'anything' at all", as in the movie 'Bambi'. I guess we haven't reached the bottom of the 'embarrassment' pit. I fear there's more to come.

I think the statement by the minister is valid in the sense that yellow culture has indeed polluted our culture and may erode our beliefs. Likewise, it has opened our eyes to the one-sided propaganda and mainstream media controlled by the gomen.

It has allowed persona like RPK and his knights to shed light on half-truths and outright lies. Personally, I have benefitted from the internet and have since stopped reading the newspapers and viewing other gomen-controlled media. This has allowed me to shape new and balanced opinions which I regularly share here. So here's to the lesser of evils, the internet, facebook and twitter is here to stay and enable us to call a spade a spade. May RPK and knights light the way into a new Malaysia.

written by asherand, January 17, 2010 19:31:04

What on earth is the culture that we're trying to protect? The culture of lying, cheating, raping, stealing, murdering and total disregard of justice? I don't see anything else being consistently attacked on blogs. Rais, you should be ashamed of yourself, selling your soul to curry favor with the corrupted and powerful.


may I add...

This is the guy who says he has burn his bridges with UMNO. Then off he goes to join Semangat47 after a long tirade against Dr M and new UMNO. This is probably about the most unprincipled politician you can find. Bullies journalists and call the english language weird ( but send his children to study English). RAIS YATIM, you are not in any position to talk about culture when you yourself are Biadab.

Rais has ulterior motive: he is worried UNMNO/BN will lose more support if it has not already done so! He is worried that Malaysians will get wise and be more aware of politics and current affairs in the country especially the explosive contents relating to scandals, corruption, abuse of power and what not.

Internet, e-commerce, email, e-everything is the world's culture, the culture (if that's what he says it is) that is the same for everyone in their millions the world over; in fact 600 million people.

Why doesn't Rais try to ban the internet all together for the "safety" of Malaysian children and all adults.

He must realise that people are not stupid and want to enjoy what he enjoys on the internet. The internet is a double-edged sword much like everything else.Just like the hand phone which is so capable and ubiquitous, the internet by itself is not a problem. Going by his worried, if not paranoid and small-minded view, the hand phone should also be banned cos it can promote negative culture as it is empowered with 3G mutimedia and camera capability!

Come on SIr, we are not naive and gullible like small kids. We all have brains just like you but a lot of others have better brains but never have the chance to use it for the good of the country.

hei anak yatim(orphan)... you are anka yatim thats why your mentality is such!!! you are not at all qualified to hold the cabinet minister!!! Cant be trusted because you are a jump ship from anwar to mahatir! your accent is like orang INdon! so go back to Indonesia for good! make sure your kids and grandchildrens all do not have facebook n twitter! Take your house in order 1st before saying it to the rakyat!

What sort of Information & Communication Minister is this? then "haram" the internet, you idiot anak yatim.t's a western invented technology, so banned it to all muslims in Malaysia!anak yatim, please go and live in a cave with osama. see how this umno minster was so scared that the rest of the Malays and other races learn too much from the internet. the malay umnos are very afraid that the Rakyats are exposed to more knowledge of their evil doings and how the betray their own countrymen. umno should be banned in Malaysia !!!

This Rais' concept of "culture" is the one UMNO wants to create: broken, intolerant, fearful, frightening.
He can eat my mouse pad.

What on earth is the culture that we're trying to protect? The culture of lying, cheating, raping, stealing, murdering and total disregard of justice? I don't see anything else being consistently attacked on blogs. Rais, you should be ashamed of yourself, selling your soul to curry favor with the corrupted and powerful.

its impressionable to e young wat e internet provides n e minister is worried bout tis???? wat a moron, i think he sld be mor concerned bout how e main stream media is fuelin racial sentiments in their print!!!! dumb ass thinks facebook or twitter is eroding cultural values!!!! u need to get out mor dumb ass (do tell how it is eroding!)!!
try educating the society of e right values ... throwin molotov cocktails on churches should be addressed not on whims n fancies of ur political party!!! try if its not hard tackling issues actually affectin tis country... not ur personal views (keep it to ur self).