Mohamad Tasyrif Tajudin and Facebook

It is a little sweet victory to learn that Mohamad Tasyrif Tajuddin was charged over his gas bomb post in the facebook. It all started when he made a irresponsible comment about churches that was vandalized by Molotov cocktail due to the ruling issue about the word 'allah'.



Immediately, snap shot of this comment spread fast around the facebook network and it angered lots of people that then taken action to report it to the police. No one knew if he really involved with the attack on the churches but the police quick action on to interrogate him found that he just a brats that seeking for an attention. Nevertheless, he was charged under the Communications and Multimedia Act for improper use of the Internet, which carries a penalty of up to a year in jail and a fine if found guilty.

Mohamad Tasyrif Tajudin is the reminder for the entire internet user especially the facebook user that the law and regulation still can be enforced. The virtual and anonymous world of internet where we can get away almost everything is starting to be an illusion or myth. The internet world was created based on our real world and it is not possible that the real world rules and regulation can be possibly applied on this so called virtual and border less world.

Internet user should starts learning to be more responsible over the interaction they made in the social network such as facebook, myspace and friendster. Every interaction we made within the social network is logged and kept and can be used to be against our self in the future by anyone that control the system. There are numerous effort made by the government around the world to control this unlimited and boarder less world because of its potential to change the outcome of the future.

Internet is just like a double edge sword. It can be use for withhold the peace and also invoke havoc towards the society. It can be use to topple an old power regime but also create a more worst new powerful regime that can adapt towards it. A person can be well known with the help of internet people but can also be condemn and insulted by the people that made him famous at the first place.

The creation of the internet has opened a Pandora box of uncertainties. There are many possibilities and outcome that can happen by using and exploiting this technology. If we're not careful, it might bite back at us. The case of Tasyrif Tajuddin is a strong reminder that we're not anonymous anymore in the internet. Many people can keep an eye over us easily and our tract can't be easily erase as record is kept not in the one main server but at many users that has open and access the information.


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Kota Kinabalu Facebook Consumer Group

Fed up with price hike from the government, local business and company? Dishonest business or company that cheat the customer money? Overprice item in certain shops and stalls? Bad services or bad hygienic cleanness on some restaurants or coffee shop?

Join (Click the logo for the link)



The idea of this group is to get lots of facebook friends that live in kota kinabalu area to pressure the businesses that has a dishonest business ethic without regarding the well being of the consumers. For example, a coffee shop raise up their drinks over the recommendation price due to unknown reason but the quality of the drinks is still the same or worst. Kota Kinabalu Facebook Group member can post up a complaint in the wall and discussion board information of the shop that is to believe to over profits from the consumer without a good reason. This group will be acting as a public forum of its members to decide to boycott this specific by not going to that place to drinks or eat.

This will not be significant if only Kota Kinabalu Facebook Group failed to gain more people to act together as group. If this group can get more members to participate the cause, the shop or company will see the significant of this action and they will think twice before making any decision that can hurt their business overall.

This group is still at its infancy to make different. It hope to be that this facebook group can grow bigger in numbers and make difference on the way of the local shop and company in kota kinabalu doing business. The way to do is to be able to get more active facebook members that live, work and stay in kota kinabalu area. There are still more research, works and trial and error to be done before this idea works.

Kota Kinabalu Facebook Consumer Group is not own by anyone, nor me the creator of this group. The members are those who decide on action that with great consideration and will not influences by any political agenda by any means. The pure purpose of this group is only to pressure the business and shops that doing their business in dishonest way.

At the moment, this group is still on planning on how is this can be possible in near future. We cannot wait for the government or the opposition to help us and we need to take action by our self without waiting for the right people to come out and lead us. Please let anyone that you think can help about this group so we're on the right track on achieving the main purpose and idea of this group.

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We didn't start the fire

Billy Joel — We Didn't Start The Fire lyrics

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiov
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...