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Re: Singapore
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On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Harish Pillay wrote:
[...]
> > In Germany you can in fact criticize the goverment without risk of
> > prosecution for seditious libel, that you cannot in Singapore.
>
> You *can* critise the SG govt. The idiots who claim to be the SG govt are
> however very sensitive (i.e. have very thin skins) to anyone who makes false
> criticisms.
IIRC the peaple who decide weather these criticisms are false or not (the
judges) are quite biased towards the goverment. If my memouries of a
recent news story are correct, a recent judment against the goverment
was a great shock to every one.
I have also have heard that the sueing by the goverment is aimmed at
driving thouse who critiscise it into bankrupsy and thus unable to hold
office.
[...]
> > Germany does not practice a blocking regime on the InterNet
> > similar to that Singapore does, since that would be in contrary to the
> > constitutional ban on censorship.
>
> Which has been circumvented by using alternate proxies or www.anonymizer.com.
> Check www.sintercom.org/hunt/rahunt.html for more info.
Its not wather the taticks where effective or not that is importent. It
is the fact that the goverment attempted.
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