On 2 Sep 96 at 11:46, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 ichudov@algebra.com wrote:

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James Seng wrote:

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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.

I agree with that. I should therefore cease, as much as possible, to interact with them by stopping to buy anything made in Singapore. Then, let them starve, fed by their highers cultural ideas.

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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.

At whose moral expanse?

Of course, one may argue that the racial, social and religious relations are better handled the American way. That, however, is a controversial issue, and adopting confrontational cowboy attitudes is not going to make the social evolution any faster.

Who talks of social evolution? We only talk about civil liberties. And they are damn easy to implement: Leave your neighbor do what he pleases. Mind your own business.

IMHO, the present measures 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.

This whole paragraph is a fine example of appeasement. And the CDA *is* an attempt to control the flow, not of information, but of ideas. jfa DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891