What is the purpose of MPCN?

Dr Liew Chan Keong

What is the purpose of MPCN?

To unite doctors in Malaysia?

I have been on internet since even before 'internet' was recognized as a legitimate word in dictionaries. Those were the time we put our old telephone handset onto modem and called overseas at 300bps.

Those were the days that despite our differences, in skin colour, region, age, gender, and others, we stood united as a common race for the betterment of worldwide communication and information exchange. It is still happening now - it is called 'open source'.

And these days? Everybody who knows how to go online thinks that the rest of the world should confine into posting only stuffs they are interested in. As for the rest, they find that the content is offensive! They keep reporting all sorts of junks to Facebook monitoring team.

Jokes turned into insults. Personal opinions become personal attacks. One simple dissatisfaction expressed online can turn into a court case.

What has become of us? Now everyone who has access to internet and in particularly Facebook is capable of censoring others, getting others banned?

Tolerance is at the all-time low.

Are we trying to shape the (internet) world to our own ideal? Are we trying to 'mind-control' others through Facebook?

I can tell you - it doesn't work that way!

You see, the internet do not revolve around you. Instead, you revolve around the internet. So stop living in your self-centered world.

You want to make changes to the internet, you do not force stuffs down people's throat.

You reason with the rest of the world. And hopefully there are people who agree with you. Be done with it.

You can block as many people or sites you deem offensive but they still exist. You can report as many as you want but as long as you are still on the internet, they will always come back to you, like those penis-enlargement ads.

From my view point, MPCN is doing a good job. We all have our differences. I yearn the days when we view our respective tasteless jokes as just a passing of our ventings of our disatisfaction and daily stress from our stressful works.

Perhaps, just perhaps, we should have another page just to share among us tolerable doctors of any other nonsense under the sun, just not to offense these holier-than-thou colleagues? Then we can share all the other stuffs that these hypocrites cannot tolerate?

Let us the open-minded assimilate and leave those holier-than-thou f***ed ups behind.