-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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. - -- Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett. I do not reply to munged addresses. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNIuSnaQK0ynCmdStAQGRDAP/XoIgOJveVLu09zcBHKtwLP9Y8yt0ZHQ+ /vAofLi+kUtGaeStbvXt2FtdwiRR19xOhmM3mHSDSTIVV6jyBgKu0z0ikiXn+vFk QaEjqw1OJL9SZzPeNw539+pGCbQjKwBEmjij/OPRXLzDPsXjNJfYxLSm+WQ3tc3G jDu6/jqqmdQ= =Od5x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----