1996-09-02 - Re: DON’T Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: jseng@pobox.org.sg (James Seng)
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Message ID: <199609020116.UAA01684@manifold.algebra.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-09-02 03:24:03 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 11:24:03 +0800

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 11:24:03 +0800
To: jseng@pobox.org.sg (James Seng)
Subject: Re: DON'T Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
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James Seng wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> > The point is to make clear to them that the Usenet and similar Web sites
> > are global in nature, not subject to censorship without a very high local
> > cost. If discussions of Lee Kwan Yew's dynasty are considered illegal, then
> > Singaporans will have to choose not to carry the various newsgroups into
> > which *I* post such messages!
> 
> Just let to add my comment in regard to this unforuntate discusssion.
> 
> To understand the sitution better, you should not impose America 
> idealogy and perspection on how things to be done to Singapore. Singapore 
> maybe young but there are certain culture too.
> 
> Most importantly, the move to censor certain WWW site actually comes as a 
> relieve to many people, especially parents who worried about the bad 
> influence of it. We can go into the same discussion about whose 
> responsibilty it is but before you do that, please bear in mind that this 
> is Singapore.

America is much less different from Singapore in that respect than
you might think.

igor





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