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