"People like Mark Zuckenberg and Bill Gates would not be able to conduct their development work for any IT project in Malaysia, because they do not have a degree to show for it. Smart or silly - let the citizens decide!"
Indirect way to regulate the alternative e-media?
"There is also speculation that the CPA11 is a cover for the BN to clamp down on the online and opposition media, using the far-ranging and awesomely discretionary scope of the law to get at the alternative e-press. At the rate the BN is going, soon even bloggers may have to reigister and seek approval before they can put up a page in cyberspace."
Source: Malaysia Chronicle
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=24606:what-a-disaster-government-even-it-pros-unspared-in-bns-rush-for-oppressive-laws&Itemid=2
I also see it as government's way of enabling local graduates to be recognized for government and other local projects, much like how established professional bodies in accounting, architecture, engineering, law, medicine, surveying, and so on, were sidelined in favour of newly established and government sanctioned bodies. No matter how well known a professional is in his own field, he has to comply with such requirements before he can practise here.
We have seen how America's relatively greater freedom in expression in an environment which favours innovation and inventions has produced such greats as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page (Google) and Mark Zuckenberg (Facebook). The Bill is likely to stifle and discourage potentially innovative minds in favour of mindless copycats.
Its ok for Bill Gates and co where the market forces decide. But when the Government want to call for consultancy on computerisation or even setting up Facebook accounts, they get nonsense. Ever wonder why the public websites are so terrible or even Facebook need to be managed by CONsultants. A registration could help to weed out those IT conmen and indirectly safeguard public funds.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary,CLY. Your example of FB managed by CONsultants presumes the ministry was conned, but more likely, a case of overcharge by consultants friendly to the decision makers, as is typical of BN style. Registration is supposed to control but in effect, it will drive away creative people who are individualistic and dislike any form of bureaucracy. What is worrying is the implication of such registration on personal blogsites, for eg., which the government is trying hard to control. We have become cynical because of past sinister motives by our present leaders.
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