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Showing posts with label Anonymous comments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anonymous comments. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Monday, February 28, 2011
When?
Dear Khmer in Sydney CBD,
When will you be able to put personal grudge aside and look at saving Cambodia for Cambodians, or will you never ever???
RFIA
When will you be able to put personal grudge aside and look at saving Cambodia for Cambodians, or will you never ever???
RFIA
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Anonymity has its time and place
January 26, 2011By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
Anonymity has its time and place. The U.S. Supreme Court recognizes it as "a shield from the tyranny of the majority" -- not a bad thing! American forefathers' Federalist papers were written under a nom de plume, "Publius."
But in this Internet age, many anonymous postings are uninformed, misleading and ignorant. Some are venomous attacks to hurt and discredit.
On Nov. 29, 2010, Facebook product design manager Julie Zhuo's New York Times article, "Where Anonymous Breeds Contempt," cited psychological research that has "proven again and again that anonymity increases unethical behavior."
Zhuo contended that in the online world of total anonymity, "People -- even ordinary, good people -- often change their behavior in radical ways." She dubbed it the "online disinhibition effect."
Zhuo says "trolling" -- the posting of inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums -- has its roots dating back to the 4th century B.C. Classical Greek philosopher Plato told the parable of the mythical ring of Gyges, which gave its owner the power of invisibility. A habitually just man with the Gyges ring would become a thief. For Plato, morality comes with full disclosure -- without accountability, a man behaves unjustly.
Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt
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Jennifer Daniel and Sandi Daniel |
By JULIE ZHUO
Op-Ed Contributor
The New York Times
THERE you are, peacefully reading an article or watching a video on the Internet. You finish, find it thought-provoking, and scroll down to the comments section to see what other people thought. And there, lurking among dozens of well-intentioned opinions, is a troll.
“How much longer is the media going to milk this beyond tired story?” “These guys are frauds.” “Your idiocy is disturbing.” “We’re just trying to make the world a better place one brainwashed, ignorant idiot at a time.” These are the trollish comments, all from anonymous sources, that you could have found after reading a CNN article on the rescue of the Chilean miners.
Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its roots go much farther back. Even in the fourth century B.C., Plato touched upon the subject of anonymity and morality in his parable of the ring of Gyges.
Monday, September 20, 2010
One Anonymous Response To Ten Milion Hits Later...
In this part of the world, people sometime like to use acronym to say or mean something esp. in the IT/Technical world - to me "KI-Media" means "KIM" just like the name of my Cambodian girlfriend.
I love "KIM", oh lala!!!
Eat your heart out Heng Soy...ROFL!
Need I say more?
6:03 AM
I love "KIM", oh lala!!!
Eat your heart out Heng Soy...ROFL!
Need I say more?
6:03 AM
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
With All Due Respect to MP's Op-Ed...
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Anonymous said...
On land or on water, the Viet/Yuon is a pest to Cambodia regardless of what Hun Sen or anything Cambodia is doing or will be trying to do for them!
Sihanouk, more than once said in Khmer as showed here on KI-Media logo (and translated):
"The YUON/Viet is a croc(odile)",
and please note Khmer word "YUON" as it had never been at all pejorative as some ignorant non-khmer like this typical thick-skulled editor of the Phnom Penh Post once thought and never had the courage to admit that he has wrongly and racially stamped it on Khmer's forehead vis-à–vis the Viet/Yuon!!!
8:19 AM
Friday, April 23, 2010
Fed Up!
Anonymous said...
16th St has to duck-walk to 20th St...
Hem Heng is not that important - he can be taken out of the equation anytime...He is just Hun Sen's slave as much as Hun Sen and his cronies themselves are slave to the Viet ...and that's what Hem Heng is banking on, to be precise, Hem Heng knows that he has below behind him - Hem Heng cannot do anything without first consulting with and approved by...
Vietnam Embassy
1233 20th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036-2364
(202) 861-0737 – (202) 861-0694 – (202) 861-2293
vietnamembassy-usa.org
Watch out Khmer people!!!...Know where your Embassy is in the U.S of A!!!
16th St has to duck-walk to 20th St...
Hem Heng is not that important - he can be taken out of the equation anytime...He is just Hun Sen's slave as much as Hun Sen and his cronies themselves are slave to the Viet ...and that's what Hem Heng is banking on, to be precise, Hem Heng knows that he has below behind him - Hem Heng cannot do anything without first consulting with and approved by...
Vietnam Embassy
1233 20th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036-2364
(202) 861-0737 – (202) 861-0694 – (202) 861-2293
vietnamembassy-usa.org
Watch out Khmer people!!!...Know where your Embassy is in the U.S of A!!!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Opinion not the same as thought [-Please read as it applies specifically to KI-Media and KI-Media Readers]
September 30, 2009A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
Last week I wrote about an emerging culture of intolerance, characterized by an increasing tendency of debaters to clutter discussion with insults and replace thoughtful discussion with a demonization of one's opponent.
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated," said Coretta Scott King. Chinese philosopher Confucius counseled, we must "cultivate our personal life, ... set our hearts right." Professor Jonathan Haidt's research looked for "ways to transcend 'culture wars,' ... to foster more civil forms of politics." His Civic Politics.org Web site begins with the question: "Can't we all disagree more constructively?"
Diversity and disagreement are healthy in a democracy. When 1,000 critical and creative thoughts bloom, a society has the opportunity to probe, to seek to understand, and to generate new ideas among a long list of options to advance humanity. However, unrestrained free expression invites licentiousness, found in the state of nature, that threatens human rights, freedom and survival.
Opinion is not to be confused with thought. As Tim Hurson -- founding partner of a firm that provides global corporations with training, facilitation and consultation in productive thinking and innovation -- posits, "truly focused thinking" includes mental activities such as "observing, remembering, wondering, imagining, inquiring, interpreting, evaluating, judging, identifying, supposing, composing, comparing, analyzing, calculating, and even metacognition (thinking about thinking)."
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
But man can learn, and Hurson assures us, "Every brain, regardless of its intelligence quotient or creative quotient, can be taught to think better: to understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively."
So, critical and creative thoughts can be cultivated to yield a thousand blooms -- not just to make the garden beautiful, but to allow a selection from among the best.
Thus, international law is careful in finding a balance among freedom of expression, debate on matters of public interest, and respect of the rights and reputations of others, as found in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Without this balance, liberty itself is in jeopardy, oppression raises its ugly head.
A Web site tells its readers that it "loves to hear from you, and we're giving you a bullhorn. We just ask that you keep things civil. Please leave out personal attacks, do not use profanity, ethnic or racial slurs, or take shots at anyone's sexual orientation or religion."
But "personal attacks, ... profanity, ethnic or racial slurs" and expletives are found in comments left in cyberspace in the name of free expression by a growing family of "anonymouses." A Khmer saying goes, "Somdei sar jiat" -- literally, "words reveal one's race," or words reveal the kind of person the speaker or the writer is; his or her values and human dignity.
A Turkish proverb says, "A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not."
The story of a "Bag of Nails" is worth retelling here.
A father gave a bad-tempered little boy a bag of nails, and told him to hammer a nail into the fence each time he lost his temper. On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails, but with each day that passed, the boy hammered fewer nails into the fence. The boy learned it was easier to hold his temper than to drive each nail into the fence.
Finally came the day he didn't have to hammer any nail into the fence: he didn't lose his temper. The boy was happy and he proudly reported to his father. Then the father told the boy now he needed to pull out a nail each day he could control his temper. Days later, all the nails were pulled out.
The father took the boy by the hand and they walked to the fence. "You have done well, my son," said the father, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out; it won't matter how many times you say, 'I'm sorry', the wound is still there."
Haidt sees man's "natural self-righteousness" as a "candidate for 'biggest obstacle' to world peace and social harmony" -- "My group is right ... Those who disagree are obviously biased by their religion, their ideology, or their self-interest." Haidt asserts it's "most universal ... advice from across cultures and eras ... that we are all hypocrites and in our condemnation of others' hypocrisy we only compound our own."
He used anthropologist Clifford Geertz's "man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun," to explain, "the world we live in is not really one made of rocks, trees, and physical objects; it is a world of insults, opportunities, status symbols, betrayals, saints, and sinners. All of these are human creations."
Haidt referenced Chinese Zen master Sen-ts'an's call for nonjudgmentalism -- judgmentalism is "the mind's worst disease," that "leads to anger, torment, and conflict." Buddha teaches that the human mind's "incessant judging" can be stopped, the mind can be trained to do the right things. Man can learn, and meditation is one way to do so.
"By seeing the log in your own eye," Haidt says, "you can become less biased, less moralistic, and therefore less inclined toward argument and conflict."
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where he taught political science for 13 years. Write him at peangmeth@yahoo.com.
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated," said Coretta Scott King. Chinese philosopher Confucius counseled, we must "cultivate our personal life, ... set our hearts right." Professor Jonathan Haidt's research looked for "ways to transcend 'culture wars,' ... to foster more civil forms of politics." His Civic Politics.org Web site begins with the question: "Can't we all disagree more constructively?"
Diversity and disagreement are healthy in a democracy. When 1,000 critical and creative thoughts bloom, a society has the opportunity to probe, to seek to understand, and to generate new ideas among a long list of options to advance humanity. However, unrestrained free expression invites licentiousness, found in the state of nature, that threatens human rights, freedom and survival.
Opinion is not to be confused with thought. As Tim Hurson -- founding partner of a firm that provides global corporations with training, facilitation and consultation in productive thinking and innovation -- posits, "truly focused thinking" includes mental activities such as "observing, remembering, wondering, imagining, inquiring, interpreting, evaluating, judging, identifying, supposing, composing, comparing, analyzing, calculating, and even metacognition (thinking about thinking)."
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
But man can learn, and Hurson assures us, "Every brain, regardless of its intelligence quotient or creative quotient, can be taught to think better: to understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively."
So, critical and creative thoughts can be cultivated to yield a thousand blooms -- not just to make the garden beautiful, but to allow a selection from among the best.
Thus, international law is careful in finding a balance among freedom of expression, debate on matters of public interest, and respect of the rights and reputations of others, as found in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Without this balance, liberty itself is in jeopardy, oppression raises its ugly head.
A Web site tells its readers that it "loves to hear from you, and we're giving you a bullhorn. We just ask that you keep things civil. Please leave out personal attacks, do not use profanity, ethnic or racial slurs, or take shots at anyone's sexual orientation or religion."
But "personal attacks, ... profanity, ethnic or racial slurs" and expletives are found in comments left in cyberspace in the name of free expression by a growing family of "anonymouses." A Khmer saying goes, "Somdei sar jiat" -- literally, "words reveal one's race," or words reveal the kind of person the speaker or the writer is; his or her values and human dignity.
A Turkish proverb says, "A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not."
The story of a "Bag of Nails" is worth retelling here.
A father gave a bad-tempered little boy a bag of nails, and told him to hammer a nail into the fence each time he lost his temper. On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails, but with each day that passed, the boy hammered fewer nails into the fence. The boy learned it was easier to hold his temper than to drive each nail into the fence.
Finally came the day he didn't have to hammer any nail into the fence: he didn't lose his temper. The boy was happy and he proudly reported to his father. Then the father told the boy now he needed to pull out a nail each day he could control his temper. Days later, all the nails were pulled out.
The father took the boy by the hand and they walked to the fence. "You have done well, my son," said the father, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out; it won't matter how many times you say, 'I'm sorry', the wound is still there."
Haidt sees man's "natural self-righteousness" as a "candidate for 'biggest obstacle' to world peace and social harmony" -- "My group is right ... Those who disagree are obviously biased by their religion, their ideology, or their self-interest." Haidt asserts it's "most universal ... advice from across cultures and eras ... that we are all hypocrites and in our condemnation of others' hypocrisy we only compound our own."
He used anthropologist Clifford Geertz's "man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun," to explain, "the world we live in is not really one made of rocks, trees, and physical objects; it is a world of insults, opportunities, status symbols, betrayals, saints, and sinners. All of these are human creations."
Haidt referenced Chinese Zen master Sen-ts'an's call for nonjudgmentalism -- judgmentalism is "the mind's worst disease," that "leads to anger, torment, and conflict." Buddha teaches that the human mind's "incessant judging" can be stopped, the mind can be trained to do the right things. Man can learn, and meditation is one way to do so.
"By seeing the log in your own eye," Haidt says, "you can become less biased, less moralistic, and therefore less inclined toward argument and conflict."
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where he taught political science for 13 years. Write him at peangmeth@yahoo.com.
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