Blog indicted over content.And I am only in secondary school!

A recent poll has shown that about 75% of bloggers get into trouble with content in their blogs some times in their lives. It seems that I have stuck to the status quo of the demographic. I am now indicted over content once posted in my blog, and I am only 17 years old. Well serves me right for not taking the advice from many people about blog safety. It seems that in my nativity I still held notions that freedom of speech was still held high in my country. Well it seems one has to face reality. To excel here one must simply 'go with the flow' and don’t go in the opposite direction and say not what I want to say but what they want to be herd.

Well taking I am from the Royal Military College which is of course under the Ministry of defense my blog would have bound to be found out in the end. Even guys from the pentagon have seen my site as well some scraps from the Singapore ministry of defense! How do I know? Some (several actually) stat checkers were installed in my blog to check who exactly comes and goes from my blog. So how do they find my blog? By tagging words like military, guns etc the list of all blogs will splendidly appear on the search pages!

So reminder out there no blog is safe anymore. Especially after my government which I love and respect with all my heart began its crackdown on errant blogs. Well I have been issued a stop order towers the content of my blog to remove certain aspects that deem derogatory toward the institution that I so love. My every intent to promote my college as well as expose all sides of the story has met with critics as well as hardship all the way. I understand their grouses but what happened to the ideal world of freedom of speech?

Well in deep respect towards the college that has done for me I have removed some of the questionable content for re-editing and re-movement of some offending photos. Please take note my posts never criticized anyone or institute in its content or its intent. But it’s my guess that our society isn’t as open as flexible as I thought it once was.

My story began when I got one hit from a URL from the Ministry of Defense. Then suddenly those hits tripled then quadrupled. Then hits from the royal military college increased dramatically in the space of one week. It was then I knew I was in trouble. Well me being me I choose to ignore the growing threat and ‘buat don’t know sahaja’. Well I was soon called to one important figure in rmc whose name I want speak for ethical and moral reasons to discus the future. Well he was very kind and flexible about the nature of my predicament and openly advised my to change the content of this very blog as we speak. It seems that some of my content like pictures of ragging would give a bad impression on the college. Well I accepted that rebuttal openly. Well at least to say he thought my blog well written and he personally liked its content it was the more uptight people at higher places who had certain grouses towards my content.

Sight at such a young age and the Ict police is upon me. Well my case differs from the fact that most cases involving police involved internet pornography. My case is a first here and I am a sort of first in pioneering blogs in the college. Well happy to say aside from getting a stern warning its seems no other actions will be taken against me in the meanwhile. Well that is good actually as my spm is dangerously near and having the prospect of being expelled does not seem appealing towards me. Well I regret to say that if I would be expelled I would go down fighting. Imagine the media. Form 5 student gets expelled over content of blog. Imagine the scandal that would ensure. It would bring me nationwide fame and instantly make my blog a stopping point on the web. Well I just said if though. This is just a thought up scenario in my twisted mind and not some veiled threat towards all that I hold dear.

Well happy to say that at least some good has come from this incident. I have now had multiple fans of my blog in the terms of the dozens of people from my school and ministry of defense who frequently monitor my blog day by day. All the hoo-hah here has ensure that everyone in my school to at least see it once. After all there is no such thing as bad publicity. Well each time I pass a staff here my usually obscure face is now recognized immediately. Wow. Well this makes thing harder to make 3-4 circuits around the mess hall as my face is most probably recognized.

Well my school has had the insight to make something out of this whole thing. I’ve had a proposal to make a web site promoting the college after spm. I am interested in a way as I have nothing to do after spm and a job here would be nice. I already have the entire concept planed in my head as well as the URL. Well can’t wait to finally put my skills to good use.

Well sorry of this exceptionally long rant. Just hoping to spread the message that blogs are not the place to share ‘everything’ not because of ethical or moral reasons but because of the state of the way things are and you can jeopardize your future doing so.

I fear that I may get into trouble over this very post. But a kind reminder to all viewers of my blog. These are my opinions and they seemingly dont induce racial or cultural disharmony nor do hope to do so. I have complied with my college and removed all the questionable content so will you just leave me alone to my studies and spm? Id really apreciate it.

Well id like to have some feed back from this ok so don’t forget to comment.