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New York Time’s Article On Malaysian Political Bloggers

Nov 15, 2008 Blogosphere, Malaysia

I came across this article, which was published about a week ago.

This May, though, he discovered the power of the Internet. Like many other inconvenient critics, he joined what seemed to be a political wave of the future, creating his own blog — www.chedet.com — where he vents in English and Malay several times a week.

The Internet has become the main battleground against censorship in Malaysia, where a system of self-censorship in an atmosphere of government pressure and intimidation has produced a constricted press.

Mr. Mahathir, 82, seems to be reveling now in challenging the system he once controlled, and he is as acerbic as he was during his days as prime minister.

Malaysian Blogger Fights a System He Perfected

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