Due to some political heat and libel suits being hurled on Malaysian blogosphere, bloggers have organized a group called the National Alliance of Bloggers.
The National Alliance of Bloggers’ main goal is to “protect bloggers,” and to try to get the government to see their point of view and why they have made certain postings, the new group’s president, Ahirudin Attan, wrote on his popular blog “Rocky’s Bru.”
About 50 of Malaysia’s popular online personalities held a meeting and decided to start the organization because a few bloggers were being “demonized again and again” by the government, Ahirudin said. {source: Yahoo/AP}
Here in the Philippines, we have the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). Several people/bloggers have also encouraged me to set-up/initiate one for bloggers and discussions for a possible org has been on-going (although I still have reservations). We still have to iron out some issues but I believe it should be discussed more widely among stakeholders. It just so happen that in Malaysia, a series of events have actually prompted to put up one this quick.
What you guys think?
I guess this alliance should be composed of Filipino bloggers anywhere in the world since blogging really happens in cyberspace and in no one particular country. And yes, there’s no need to wait. The threat is enough to form the alliance at once. If the threat becomes more manifest, then the membership shoots up immediately…