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Have I mentioned I've adopted a baby ? My friend found her walking along the street with her brother, so she took the brother and I took her since she can't handle both of them. At first she would sleep with me in my room but now that she's tougher and healthier I'm letting her sleep in the surau where she has more room to roam and play. I took her to the clinic and the doctor said she has a mild lung infection and gave her antibiotics. Next week I'll take her for another check up to see if the infection has gone. If it's gone only then can she be vaccinated. So here's my beautiful new baby.
Everybody desires freedom of speech. On the internet, anyone can say anything they wish without worrying much about consequences. However, this freedom is not absolute. If what the writer says offends too many people, police may still take action on the writer. absolute freedom does not exist, even in the virtual world. This ensures that society remains harmonious as absolute freedom would bring harm to the society, especially in a multicultural, multiracial community such as in Malaysia.
If writers or bloggers are free to write anything they please, they will offend many people and this can cause social unrest. Also, each race would be free to criticize other races as they wish. They would be able to patronize other races and religions claiming themselves to be the best race or religion. This could lead to fights among races, racial killings and in an extreme context, the repetition of the 13th May 1969incident.
Also, dissidents would be allowed to write anything they wish on the government. They can criticize parliament and its ruling, question existing laws and say bad things about the authorities, and also promote rebellion. Seeing as how today's generation believe what they read online more than what they read in the mainstream news, their rebellious spirits will be ignited and they will be influenced to rebel against the government and their ruling. This could cause riots, strikes and overall chaos in the streets.
Other than that, absolute freedom in online media can also increase sex crimes. This is because people would be able to post anything including pictures and others who see it might get aroused and being unable to release their desires, they will proceed to go out and look for victims whom they can use to release these wants.
Besides that, if a person is granted absolute freedom in new media, they would be able to promote false religion. Even without wide promotion false religions are chosen as a faith by many, imagine what would happen if these false religions were promoted through the virtual world. More people would choose these false religions as their faith. This reduces the integrity of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism as the main religions in this country. This could lead to natural disasters as a punishment for the sins of the wrongdoers as has been happening in many countries.
It can also cause wars if a person writes about another country freely. If the person criticizes the ruling of another country, criticizes its leaders and says bad things about the people of the country, especially if untrue, this would cause the people of that country to be upset and start a war with the country of the writer. It could also affect economical ties between the two countries and cause the decline of economy in the writer's country.
Freedom of speech is a good thing and should be encouraged. However, absolute freedom is not an option if social harmony is to be maintained. Even freedom of speech must be controlled to maintain peace not only locally but also globally.
I find the eiffel tower to be an amazing piece of architecture, considering it was built in 1889. It is 341m tall and consists of three levels for visitors. The first two levels can be ascended using stairs, but the third and highest level can only be accessed using lifts.
Venice is one of the places I really want to visit. It is sinking lower and lower every year and one day will be sunk completely. This is due tue soft soil and weak foundation. However, it is still a beautiful city
This is such a beautifully planned city. When I saw it I was completely in awe. I can't even begin to imagine how they started building it.
Just finished my module today.This module is compulsory for all students and those who don't attend will be taken to UiTM Court and have to do it next semester. It was divided into two parts, Group Exercises and talks. The group exercises were okay but the talks were BORING. I slept through the first one. Good thing I didn't snore. The second one was given by the ex Timbalan Pengarah of my old campus, and he's always been good at giving talks so it wasn't as boring. I didn't sleep much heheh. So now I'm at home, gathering strength and motivation to do all my assignments which are due next week. How many, you ask ? Four. How many are done ? Big Fat Zero. As you may guess, I won't be sleeping for the next two days.
In other news, my family is in Penang. I was supposed to go along but I couldn't because of the aforementioned module. I'm incredibly jealous as I'm sure they had fun going around the island and riding the cable cars. I know for sure they went on the cable car because my adorable little nephew loves cable cars and he was all excited about going on cable cars before the trip. Good thing I stayed home though...it gives me time to do my assignments. I was looking through a textbook and found a very funny mistake. The book which was written by one of my lecturers who has a PhD and therefore is a Dr named a National Laureate as A. Salad Said. Too hilarious!
I need a new Mooncup! Mine fell into the toilet and went straight up the pipe. I didn't even have a chance of rescuing it, but I can't afford a new one yet so I'll just have to wait. It's so uncomfortable using pads, and even more so after I was liberated by the Mooncup. Sabar...
More news, I'm loving my lovely widescreen lappie!
