"Please include Rosmah for Putrajaya cons[censored]uency, a sure win, for her to kick-start life as a politician in her own right. Let's see the reaction from Tengku Adnan and other Umno members."
I am puzzled how the word 'constituency' has 'censored' in brackets within it. Does it give the impression I put in an obscene or objectionable word which was censored? It appears to me and I wonder why.
While I am at this, I wish to say that as I put in comments in various news portals and blogsites, I am disappointed when some of my comments did not appear. This could be due to censorship by the administrator or blog owner concerned but it defeats the purpose of having a facility which basically invites comments and yet refuses to publish them. I can understand if it involves spams and malicious comments which I would censor in my own blog too. But different opinions or even out of point comments will only reflect on me, not the portal or blog owner.
I have come to the conclusion that there is no real freedom of expression and as a blogger, it is better to comment in my own blog though it means less exposure as compared with a well known news portal.
2 comments:
KS, I have experienced the same problem. Sometimes I put in what I thought was a constructive opinion for further discussion and the comment is omitted. I noticed later that the blog administrator had included those comments that reflected his line of thought, chanelling the discussion in that direction and making it appear that everyone agreed with his line of thought.
Highly possible. I experienced that in an English newspaper some years back and I felt then that the editors had the advantage of getting opinions of others to help them in writing theirs.
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