For any country keen to restrict the public flow of information, the internet represents the greatest of challenges. As an example of this, China has an estimated 30,000 officials patrolling its "great firewall" for seditious comment and other undesirable material.
The latest country to consider taking up the challenge is Malaysia, which has threatened a crackdown on blogs.
New laws could be introduced to prevent bloggers spreading "disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies", domestic newspapers quoted Kong Cho Ha, a technology minister, as saying.
All Malaysian news-based blogs could be forced to register with the ministry of information, the minister said.
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