Abdel-Hadi Mahfouz, head of the National Audio-visual Media Council, on why they want to build a database of Lebanese websites:
Our recent decision to organize the online media will only protect websites from a future government ruling against them … if they are not registered or within our database, the government could easily ban them,
It’s like asking us to walk into a prison so that they could protect us from murder.
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Are they serious! They want people to ‘register” their websites?
How can they ban websites which are not registered?
How can the government ban a website ? how can they manage this ? he only wants to get the address of each and every blogger in lebanon so that he transfer the data to his masters in the intelligence systems, just to make it easy for them nail our … whenever we mention anything that does not fit their strategies!
I REPEAT WHAT MUST BE DONE:
REBELL AGAINST THIS BLOODY GOVERNMENT!
Garbage. They can’t enforce it. It will never fly, and make them look weak. It’s like they shot themselves in the foot. No one will agree to this ‘law’ by some baseless ‘counsel’.
I see No blog registering to this stupidity.
Well, there is one huge loophole: the government requires only *news* sites to register…and as we all know, we don’t have newspapers in Lebanon, just opinion magazines, so nothing to worry about:)