On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, James Seng wrote:
You dont go to jail for writing articles. You might be sue for deframation if you published something untrue (similar to your civil lawsuit i guess?)
So what happens if somebody in Singapore publishes a list of Singaporians who beat up Chinese immigrants the previous week.
and have to pay large sum of money to the person but you dont go to jail.
If the person who publishes the list of Singaporians who beat up Chinese immigrants the previous week is not in jail for publishing that, then what is he in jail for? The individual is publishing factual data, just data that the Singapore government has been trying very hard to keep out of the hands of the population of Singaporians in specific, and the world in general.
a government that can keep the leader of an opposition political party in jail for years just because he opposes them is pretty corrupt. I am not interested in politics so i didnt really know what is happening in that case. for that, i have no comment.
IOW, you don't give a damm about freedom of speech -- which is what I suspected was the case all along. You're just one of those people who says pretty words, without meaning them.
Very true. So does the First Amendment said. Singapore does have such similar law as First Amendment which is slight "modified". You have freedom of speech as long as your comments does not endanger religious/racist harmony and national security. (I do not know the exact term..need a lawyer
National security is a hole that makes a mockery of anything which allegedly protects freedom of speech. The slight modification in Singapore's freedom of speech law means that all speech is acceptable, so long as the writer first self-censors, and secondly doesn't offend any jerks in Singapore, and thirdly doesn't offend any jerks in the neighbouring countries, and fourthly doesn't offend the current despot in Singapore. << A statment which makes this message illegal to carry through the internet. >> Still want to claim that Singapore practices freedom of speech? Or do you want me to start citing religious, political and serious literary works of merit that are prohibited under Singapore's alleged freedom os speech statute, that bans any speech that might be controversial? xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com However, if you're tired of the Lesser of N evils, Cthulu's export policy is that you can't escape anyway, and your puny mortal lives will be absorbed along with his morning coffee. Your encryption technology is futile against the Elder Gods, and the arcane formulas in the Cyphernomicon of that mad physicist Tim The Enchanter may summon spirits from the vasty deep, but no secrets are safe from Nyarla-S-Ahothep who knows all and sees all. Bill Stewart