After reading the response in the papers by a group of bloggers to the list of proposals by the Panel formed to look into how to manage the new media, I got these impressions:
1. These bloggers look more like making demands than giving feedbacks.
2. They are only interested in getting what they want and didn’t give much thought to other aspects that are equally important.
3. They display an I-know-better-than-you attitude in contrast to The Panel's humble one.
The bloggers are only interested in the political part as if blogging is only about politics. Other aspect like pornography, they just dismiss it saying there are already laws to deal with it. Laws for pornography but no laws for politics?
There are thousands of pornographic sites or other undesirable sites and they did not give any suggestions how to handle them or at least minimize their impact.
And for the political parts they want no restrictions at all so they can say whatever they like. Bloggers just adhere to a code of conduct will do, they say. Hahaha, just make some simple rules and everybody follows or whether they adhere to the code or not, never mind. So simple!
It makes me think of the saying: Give you an inch you want to take one foot, or give you one cm you want to take 30cm.
I think it is better to take a cautious approach, doing things step by step. It takes years to build something but it can be destroyed in a very short time.
