{"id":1059,"date":"2007-01-19T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:30:37","slug":"1055-of-tak-nak-nst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"[1055] Of Tak Nak NST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh heck. What the hell.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/nstBoycott.png?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With the talk about free speech and all, what are you going to do about it, realistically?<\/p>\n<p>Paste a banner on your blog and then do nothing?<\/p>\n<p>I propose a boycott on NST. Read &#8217;em but don&#8217;t buy &#8217;em. Hit them where it hurts the most.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s \u2014 There might be a misunderstanding caused by this entry. I have nothing against defamation law. NST has every right to seek right of redress from Jeff Ooi and Rocky&#8217;s Bru, if Jeff Ooi and Rocky&#8217;s Bru are indeed guilty of defamation. By that, I am not implying that Jeff Ooi and Rocky&#8217;s Bru have committed fraud or defamation. I am just saying that the post has little relevant to the case, originally.<\/p>\n<p>This post is one of those entries that try to ride on a wave but not actually part of the wave. I am targeting NST not because of the current lawsuit. Rather, it is because of NST&#8217;s biased reporting. I do however sympathize with the two bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the right, I do not feel the redress NST is seeking is not sufficiently justified. I doubt that the two bloggers have made malicious false statements against NST. If there are strong proofs of otherwise, I would be glad to rescind my sympathy towards the two bloggers and even support prosecution. But I still will not buy NST.<\/p>\n<p>Please differentiate the such right from such justification. I disagree with the justification, not the right. For this reason, I do not plan to endorse &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sloone.wordpress.com\/bloggers-united\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogger United<\/a>&#8221; or paste their banner here on my blog. The &#8220;movement&#8221; seems to deny the right to redress while dismissing NST&#8217;s allegation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infernalramblings.uni.cc\/articles\/Malaysian_Socio-Politics\/116\/\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sipm.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/wow-what-week-it-has-been-hasnt-it-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">SiPM<\/a> might have described what my position on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh heck. What the hell. With the talk about free speech and all, what are you going to do about it, realistically? Paste a banner on your blog and then do nothing? I propose a boycott on NST. Read &#8217;em but don&#8217;t buy &#8217;em. Hit them where it hurts the most. p\/s \u2014 There might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[1068],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-liberty","tag-new-straits-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}