Singapore Bloggers Charged Under Sedition Act

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Singapore Bloggers Charged Under Sedition Act

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 12, 2005 @07:11AM from the what-happened-to-anonymous-posts dept.

ChannelNewsAsia is reporting that for the first time in at least 10 years Singapore has invoked the sedition act and charged two local bloggers for posting racist comments on an online forum. From the article: 'Said Singaporean blogger Benjamin Lee (Mr Miyagi):" A lot of them will be looking at their blogs and wondering if they made any legally seditious remarks. I think because of the way this will be played up, it's negative publicity for the Singapore blogging community."'

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Arrrrgh... by Stanistani · 2005-09-12 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Conflict in my central processor...
Racism...
Freedom of speech...
Freedom of speech overrides natural desire to slowly boil racists...

*back to sleep*

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1. Re:Arrrrgh... by Stanistani · 2005-09-12 08:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Three points...
  
  1) I seldom actually boil people. Usually I set them on a low simmer.
  
  2) I freely admit to being fallible. There's a speck of the racist (or more) in all of us.
  
  3) People I feel like boiling are the sort you would recognize as not just racist, but proudly so.
  
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Re:Link? by Tackhead · 2005-09-12 07:19 · Score: 4, Funny

> Is this the link?
Perhaps the original author was afraid that the Slashdot effect would put a chink in the armor of the hosting company's intrusion detection system, and was just trying to help keep the log files spic and span of extraneous hits. In any case, thanks for not being niggardly with the links.
/gets dragged away screaming
Comment removed by account_deleted · 2005-09-12 07:19 · Score: 3, Funny

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All these damned accronyms on Slashdot. by CyberLord+Seven · 2005-09-12 07:23 · Score: 3, Funny

What does NSFW mean?
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HOLY SHIT! Not Safe For Work!
Good thing it's lunch time and nobody's here. :)

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No conflict at all in here... by Spy+der+Mann · 2005-09-12 07:49 · Score: 3, Funny

screw them BOTH! The bloggers for their idiotic racist comments, _AND_ the govt for controlling freedom of speech.

Ta-da, problem solved.

NEXT!
Not surprised by coinreturn · 2005-09-12 08:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Not so surprising that those slant-eyed rice-pickers would stoop to such levels.
Re:Always want to sell a t-shirt.... by plover · 2005-09-12 09:16 · Score: 3, Funny

Here, you can print this beneath it (or on the back) and I won't even sue you for the idea:
DEATH TO ALL INTOLERANT PEOPLE!!!

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Re:"soon to follow" by SlayerofGods · 2005-09-12 09:28 · Score: 2, Funny

This massive Orwellian bill is the most dangerous legislation since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913; probably even more dangerous, since it will lead directly to establishment of a vast federal anti-hate bureaucracy like Canada's ending free speech.
wth??
Yes! Damn you President Wilson for taking away my right to.... ummm... set up a national bank?

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Re:"soon to follow" by man_ls · 2005-09-12 09:29 · Score: 2, Funny

There's some irony in the Christian Right pushing laws which would imprison and fine them, while at the same time actively engaging in the behaviors they are seeking to eliminate.

Good show, really.
Re:Is racist speech every ok? by soft_guy · 2005-09-12 10:03 · Score: 2, Funny

There are 13 year old black people who wear ties? Other than Eurkle?

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