From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:55:20 +0800
To: harish.pillay@brokat.com
Subject: Re: Singapore
In-Reply-To: <199712070918.RAA05254@brokat.com.sg>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.971208164538.202A-100000@shirley>
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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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