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Re: Singaporean control freaks & CMR (Re: puff pieces vs tough crypto issues)
William -
Hi.
> In <[email protected]>, on 10/23/97
> at 11:43 PM, Harish Pillay <[email protected]> said:
>
> >Hi. For the sake of sanity and completeness, the following has to be
> >corrected.
>
> >> Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> writes:
> >> > The relevance? Another example of Singapore's loony politics. Strict social
> >> > controls and relative economic freedom. I find it fascinating in light of
> >> > Net-filtering and other attempts at restricting information flow; if you
> >> > don't, well, you can always delete it. :)
> >>
> >> The net-filtering and social control aspects of Singapore are very
> >> interesting. Seems that somewhere like Singapore might be an earlier
> >> adopter of mandatory GAK -- social ills have hugely disproportionate
> >> treatment over there. I hear (and our Singaporean contributer
> >> confirms) that chewing gum is illegal, jay walking too. (Hey you have
> >> the jay walking laws in the US too don't you?) (I missed the social
> >> control aspect of the vote for kewlest public toilet story).
>
> >Chewing gum per se is not illegal. I just cannot buy them from any store
> >in Singapore. I can chew to my heart's content. I can go up north to
> >Malaysia, buy a whole month's supply of gum (name your flavour) and bring
> >it back into Singapore.
>
> >So, what is moronically illegal is that I cannot sell that pack of gum.
>
> Signapore is a prime example of "mirco management" at it's worst. Whenever
> such management is attempted either in the public or private sector they
> fail. It should be intresting to see how long Singapore can keep it up.
I don't think the "micro management" is at it's worst in Singapore - not by
a long shot. It is true that the Singapore government tries to do so and
in a lot of what they attempt, they somehow come out smelling roses. But
they have goofed up royally as well.
Regards.
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Harish Pillay [email protected]
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