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Say NO to internet regulation in Singapore.
Weekly Roundup: Week 06
Posted by singaporedaily on 7th February 2009
“The direct help for individuals & households amount to less than 13% ($2.6 billion) of the total [budget]. 66% ($13.5 billion) is given directly to companies. Past reserves are accumulated savings and wealth of the nation and hence of its citizens. If the reserve vault is to be opened, the direct benefits should be skewed for more to go to [citizens] instead of to companies.”
Tan Kin Lian
“It is because there is no social safety net in place that the ruling party can capitalize on economic crises and the accompanying anxieties of the people to wring from them gratitude and indebtedness… Create a population that is put at your mercy and you can be merciful. You don’t even have to be responsible.”
Mollymeek
“It’s exhausting to write about Singapore not because it is confronting, but because it is so incomprehensible. What else can I say, with the legal noose tightening around our necks, but that we need words more than ever, to write against falsehood, to write for our own truths. Going through the numerous blogs that dot our local cyberscape, our catharses and confessions read like prison writings. The hopeful, the resigned, the escapist, the ignorant, the aware but imprisoned, all sitting alone in their dark cells scribbling into existence what’s going through their heads, to pass time and to let time pass them by. How different is that from us, sitting alone in the dark in our rooms, typing so as to escape, so as to forget, even if just so briefly?”
Cavalierio
“I recommend the Singapore government set up talks with the President of the Internet, to formally complain about the behaviour of its netizens.. and express very strong feelings of disappointment.. Netizens can help by taking courses on acceptable online behaviour so that we can cybertalk in a way that the gahmen finds responsible.”
mrbrown
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