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Say NO to internet regulation in Singapore.
Daily SG: 10 Oct 2008
Posted by singaporedaily on October 10th, 2008
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October 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Dear readers,
We urge you to strongly boycott these events.
Yawning Bread: Academic freedom and the Rascals Prize (see today aggregated list)
Next week I will attempt to forward a private members bill in Primus (our Parliament) to declare the internet a gender free space.
The brotherhood does not agree that the internet is a place to spread the gay lifestyle.
We believe kids have a right of a passage to a heterosexual lifestyle.
And we will fight to defend and uphold these values.
And why did this happen? You go and ask Yawning Bread.
Ask yourself one question, when he proposed the whole idea of community moderation, did he even consider your interest as a anon blogger.
Its pay back time.
I intend to square the accounts.
Harphoon.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
To all,
Before you call me a bigot, always remember this!
Always remember if it suits Yawning bread, he will cherry pick his politics to set the tone and cadence of what he wants to forward even if it means, he has to step on your anon head to do it!
Always remember this:
“At 07 May, 2008 14:50 , Yawning Bread Sampler said…
To anonymous, 7 may 2008, 12:04
The problem lies in the word “anonymous”. Cherian’s argument is that decisions in society should be made by consulting as widely as possible, but I would add (and I am sure he agrees with me) that there will be limits, and one of those limits could be that participants must participate openly in the process.
Just as citizens need to identify themselves at polling booths, so it is not invalid to require that people wanting to be involved should identify themselves and stand up for their beliefs. In the absence of that, how would anyone even know that the “anonymous blogger” is Singaporean in the first place? And if we can’t be sure he is Singaporean, how does one justify his inclusion in a Singapore-societal discussion?”
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(Oh don’t worry, I have a mirror copy just in case he decides to delete it and note there it also includes Cherian as well)
Here as a anonymous poster, writer and even reader you do NOT exist.
Here as an anonymous poster, writer and even reader you do not have any rights.
Let us be clear, who is the bigot and who isn’t.
We wish him a good and long trip to wherever he is going
Harphoon
October 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
We are not asking for too much.
We just want our kids and our families to be able to grow up in a place where men are not kissing each other in front of us and we have to all pretend it is the most natural thing in the world.
I do NOT believe that is too much to ask.
Harphoon 2008
October 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I dont want see a backlash against us like Miss Thio or Miss Wee, do you ALL understand?
Every single one of you knows we want nothing to do with her class politics and hate speech; all we want to do is to state our case quietly and forcefully, this is what we believe in, this is the line, this is where we will fight to defend our right to live a wholesome life.
Join us, don’t fight us.
Harphoon 2008
October 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Doesn’t declaration of support for heterosexuality contradict the call for a gender-free internet?
This ain’t bigotry, but it’s not exactly enlarging the spatial arena for inclusiveness and equality of orientation, isn’t it..
Seriously lah, where can you find anyone on Earth that can say what is correct or wrong? It’s all a social construct..
October 11th, 2008 at 1:35 am
This is not a solicitation for an open debate. I am merely complying with the protocol that is required of me whenever anyone of us has to pass an enabling act in Primus (our Parliament) concerning any matter which pertains to the internet. I am duty bound by convention to state my intention publicly for a period (14 days) before tabling the bill.
I harbor no ill will towards the gay community. Our views on this matter has always been clear and we have even spoken out many a time against the free and unmitigated hate speech often directed at the gay community. We have always supported their right to self determination and independence. All we ask in return is they too respect our right to privacy and right to pursue our own set of beliefs, unfettered and unencumbered. Part of that means we have a right to state categorically in clear and unequivocal terms that we do not agree that the internet should be used as a platform to disseminate sexual orientation related causes; doesn’t matter if it happens to be a bunch of weekend heterosexual swingers looking for a weekend gang bang. We don’t agree that the open net should support that sort of forum. There are private chat rooms and even face book accounts which can manage that aspect only too well with respect to privacy and confidentiality to other netizens, but I don’t believe there should be free and unmitigated advocacy of sexual orientation on an open basis as that will infringe our right to privacy and freedom. The passing of this bill will allow me to disagree openly / I don’t even have that right now because sexual orientation is currently barred in our constitution.
Both Thio and Wee Su Mi cannot do this as they don’t have a relationship with other bloggers and a solid readership base, we do and we feel the time is right for us to use our influence constructively to shape these discussions. If we don’t do it, who will protect our interest? Harphoon 2008
October 11th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Cool, that sounds fair.
Danke schon.