Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 ichudov@algebra.com wrote:
James Seng wrote:
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.
Actually, it is. I've been living in South-East Asia for almost one decade now, and I can tell you that most citizen are more socially conservative than their governments.
... snippity snip ...
IMHO, the present measures
[in Singapore]
represent more a gesture of appeasement to concerned social conservatives, not differently from the CDA in the US, than an attempt to control the flow of information.
Ummm, sounds pretty close to what we have here... - Igor.