Agreed - internet in Burma is a PITAJR8 wrote:We were offered a relo to Burma.
It is a place I have long wanted to visit as it is meant to be fascinating, and beautiful. Sadly ever since I have had the time and means to do so, visiting the country has been considered unethical, and so I have yet to go.
So declining the 'all in' relo was not the easiest decision to make. But one of the clinchers that made it easier for me was that the internet is hugely controlled. In fact as I recall we would have had no access from home at all. To access e-mail, do my business a/c's etc I would have had to have flown to BKK (or similar) on a bi-weekly (or so) basis.
In my opinion SG might want to tread carefully re: censoring the internet. There is a risk is comes over as insecure, paranoid, tyrannical, as in Burma. Very contrary to the modern open global IT-hub image it seems to be nurturing...
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Beginnings of stricter online censorship
More on this, an uprising of some sort:
http://www.petitions24.com/petition_for ... ing_regime
http://www.petitions24.com/petition_for ... ing_regime
Wow. Only in Singapore would this have to be a question in an FAQ...Brah wrote:More on this, an uprising of some sort:
http://www.petitions24.com/petition_for ... ing_regime
Why is free speech so important? Isn’t it an abstract concept only theorists and liberals think about?


I have some experience of how media/comms are controlled in this country, but I have to say I was surprised to see there is less press freedom here than in both Zimbabwe and Afghanistan* - and that's before these new laws.
Singapore is an interesting dichotomy. To visitors it's the convenient long-haul stop-off, nice airline, pretty hostesses, efficient airport, working infrastructure, and so on.
But if you scratch beneath the surface, it really is an idiosyncratic place. Don't know... I'm just left wondering what it is the government are (apparently) so afraid of...
*According to ISSUU 2013 Press Freedom Index.
Singapore is an interesting dichotomy. To visitors it's the convenient long-haul stop-off, nice airline, pretty hostesses, efficient airport, working infrastructure, and so on.
But if you scratch beneath the surface, it really is an idiosyncratic place. Don't know... I'm just left wondering what it is the government are (apparently) so afraid of...
*According to ISSUU 2013 Press Freedom Index.
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Wow, that IS bad. As in Taliban bad.JR8 wrote: less press freedom here than in both Zimbabwe and Afghanistan
BA-DUMP-BUMP.
I read through the petition and someone pointed out beauty products and ponies. So Singapore will squeeze 50k out of popular bloggers.
I wonder how much Mr. Brown makes from his online activities.
Or how about that doesn't-help-the-stereotype-of-Asians-taking-pictures-of-food "I eat, I shoot, I post."
Way to go, MDA, of throwing the baby with the bathwater.
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
I think, comparison was with Afghanistan nowadays, not the one existed under Taliban rule.nakatago wrote:Wow, that IS bad. As in Taliban bad.JR8 wrote: less press freedom here than in both Zimbabwe and Afghanistan
BA-DUMP-BUMP.
I read through the petition and someone pointed out beauty products and ponies. So Singapore will squeeze 50k out of popular bloggers.
I wonder how much Mr. Brown makes from his online activities.
Or how about that doesn't-help-the-stereotype-of-Asians-taking-pictures-of-food "I eat, I shoot, I post."
Way to go, MDA, of throwing the baby with the bathwater.
We'll all miss Xiaxue.nakatago wrote:Wow, that IS bad. As in Taliban bad.JR8 wrote: less press freedom here than in both Zimbabwe and Afghanistan
BA-DUMP-BUMP.
I read through the petition and someone pointed out beauty products and ponies. So Singapore will squeeze 50k out of popular bloggers.
I wonder how much Mr. Brown makes from his online activities.
Or how about that doesn't-help-the-stereotype-of-Asians-taking-pictures-of-food "I eat, I shoot, I post."
Way to go, MDA, of throwing the baby with the bathwater.
HR Watch decided to pile it on a bit: link
Interesting point raised, but I also think the finance industry is not exactly their area of expertise.Singapore is placing its status as a world-class financial center at clear risk by extending its record of draconian media censorship to the digital world
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