Pakatan Nasional Penulis Blog (National Alliance of Bloggers)

Gotcha! Or is it NAB? A National Alliance of Bloggers was officially formed last nite at the National Press Club (NPC) in a counter manouvre that outsmart the powers-that-be.
Yesterday morning, the Deputy Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor had announced at the Dewan Rakyat that bloggers using locally hosted websites may be asked to register with the authorities.
Registration was seen as "one of the measures the Government was considering to prevent the spread of negative or malicious content on the Internet" which could be a threat to national security.
However, serious bloggers viewed this move to compel local bloggers to register as a form of control and a violation of the Government's no-censorship policy with regards to the Internet under the Bill of Guarantees. The Government had also established the Content Forum as a form of self-regulation among players in the sector to deliberate on complaints by any disgruntled party. They predicted that the move would also instil fear among the bloggers and would encourage them to host their blogs overseas.
Below is the line-up of the Pro-tem committee members:
President - Ahirudin Attan
Vice President - Jeff Ooi
Secretary - Nuraina A. Samad
Treasurer - Tony Yew
Council Members:
Patrick Teoh
Bernard Khoo
Syed Azidi Syed Abdul Aziz
Syed Jamal al-Idrus
Rajahram Ramalingam
Annuratha K
Ami Husni
Soon Li Tsin (more)