Beberapa laman pro reformasi kembali pulih hari ini setelah tripod memohon maaf. Walau bagaimanapun masih terdapat beberapa laman yang masih digelapkan, termasuk satu laman tidak merbahaya kepada kerajaan, iaitu laman doa yasin di alyasin.tripod.com. Tetapi beberapa laman ceramah ugama tidak diusik pula. Apakah ini bermakna mereka takut laman doa juga? Mungkin kerana bimbang doa yang mustajab agaknya?

Soalnya apakah ini kesilapan teknikal atau tidak? Pada pendapat saya ia bukan kesilapan teknikal kerana laman pro-Umno tidak diapa-apakan pula.

Jangan lupa sebelum ini pemuda Umno, Zulkifli Alwi ada membuat lapuran polis mengenai satu surat palsu yang diedarkan di laman tranung kite. Sila rujuk rencana KM2 3890 bertajuk Surat Palsu Umno Buat Lapuran Polis pada 3/3/2001.

Peristiwa ini menunjukkan beberapa perkara yang memalukan Umno:

1. Laman web pro reformasi sudah diiktiraf oleh tripod. Kebebasan bersuara diperakui oleh tripod. Laman pro reformasi bukan laman berkempen benci sebaliknya ia laman menyalurkan maklumat (yang dibenci kerajaan walaupun benar). Ini bukan soal membenci orang tetapi membenci kezaliman dan penganiayaan yang dibuat orang.
   
   

2. Tripod pun takut juga musnah kredibilitinya Bukan sedikit pelawat berkunjung ke laman reformasi. Dalam dunia internet sebarang kesilapan kecil akan menghitamkan imej sampai bila-bila kerana saingan tidak jauh berada. Ia cuma dihujung jari sahaja.
   

   Bukan soal 11 laman sahaja, tetapi 250,000 pelawat setia reformasi akan membawa mesej ke seluruh dunia (dengan sebegitu pantas dan sekejap sahaja) bahawa tripod bersikap tidak adil (kerana laman pro-Umno yang lebih teruk dibiarkan ujud pula.)
   

   A single man can make many mistake but it is almost impossible for 250,000 people to be mistaken.
   

3. Sudah ada banyak kes tuan rumah laman meminta maaf kerana berkonfrontasi tidak akan membawa apa-apa makna melainkan publisiti buruk yang menakutkan di hari muka. 'Make a a simple mistake, you might be wipe out of existence forever.'
   
   

4. Umno cukup bimbang pengaruh internet. Tulisan penulis siber sudah mengena sasaran. Berita palsu mungkin ada - tetapi ia terlalu sedikit dibandingkan dengan berita yang sahih. Jika tidak semua laman web ini sudah lama terkubur. Bilangan pelawat yang sebegitu banyak itu menunjukkan laman web bukannya mengada-ngadakan cerita tetapi memang membawa berita.
   

5. You cannot police or control the Net.... it is the people who decide. The problem today is the culprits who want to control everything. And the Net is of no exception.
   
   

6. Whoever clashes with the Truth shall be knocked down by it.
   
   

-Man Kubur-

EMEL/SURAT TRIPOD KEPADA PENGENDALI

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:43:26 -0500 (EST)

From: membership@tripod.com

To: thewebmaster

subject: Your Tripod Membership

Dear Tripod Member,

We apologize for the removal of your site over the weekend. Due to some technical errors, we mistakenly removed several member sites and are in the process of restoring them. We did not single out you or your site, please accept our apologies, your site has now been restored.

Sincerely,

The Tripod Team

BERITA TERDAHULU

The Singapore Straits Times

20th March 2001

Pro-Anwar websites closed by US hosting service

Webmasters of the affected sites may have breached the rules which prohibit websites from loading material that is hateful or defamatory

By Brendan Pereira
MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's reformasi movement is in a spot. More than a dozen websites which have been attacking the Mahathir government on the Internet without respite for two years have been shutdown.

They have been closed not by the government, but by Tripod, a free hosting service which is owned by Lycos Inc of the United States.

Webmasters of the sites have been accused of abusing the facilities of the servers and may have breached the rules which prohibit websites from loading material that is hateful, defamatory or which flouts intellectual property rights.

It is understood that since Saturday, Internet users have not been able to access Mahafiraun 2020, Mahazalimtwo, Pemuda Keadilan and a number of other websites.

All these sites had been at the forefront of the effort to discredit Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

They sprouted up like mushrooms after rain several weeks after Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as the deputy prime minister for sexual misconduct in September 1998.

Most of the webmasters sympathise with Parti Keadilan Nasional, the political party that was set up by Anwar's wife.

Yesterday, the political party reacted strongly to news that its most effective means of sniping at the heels of the Premier had been removed.

In a letter to the executive chairman of Lycos - a leading Web company - the party's youth wing pleaded that service to the affected websites be restored.

'If Lycos has been at the receiving end of pressure from the ruling party of Prime Minister Mahathir, then the company should make known to the world the threats and insinuations it has received, ' said Mr Lokman Noor, youth secretary of Parti Keadilan.

He said that 250,000 Malaysians depended on the websites for their daily diet of news.

'All these websites are known defenders and champions of democracy against the ruling party of Malaysia.'

That certainly was not how Umno Youth viewed the websites. Mr Zulkifli Alwi, the movement's assistant secretary, applauded Tripod's decision to shut down more than a dozen pro-opposition websites.

He said: 'Umno Youth urges other web servers to also act responsibly and take firm action against those who abuse the freedom to communicate.

'If such strong action is not taken, many websites will just become like poison letters and will only function to spread false news, slander and be seditious.'

In recent weeks, Malaysian authorities have come down hard on several pro-reformasi websites that allegedly encouraged people to take to the streets and topple the government.