Tag Archives: censorship

What makes her so sure she knows what's right and wrong? Why are they controlling and micro-managing everything? Our freedom of speech is down the drain!

Once again our government decides to shut down another school. Last time this happened, it was to Nanyang University which closed its doors in 1980 to “merge” with NUS. Now, they are shutting down “Yale-NUS”, also to “merge” with NUS. Following the announcement, some Yale-NUS student has already started a …

One of our readers ponder about how those involved were neither named nor their photographs published in the spirit of transparency, whereas the pictures of Terry Xu and Daniel De Costa were splashed across State media in a bid to damage their reputation.

Apparently he had to take the video down days later because "Strictly Dumpling" has expressed opinions negative of the Chinese government…

SPH has been strongly advertising their Business Times News Tablet bundle on Facebook. However if anyone tries to point out that the deal is really a bad deal, that person is quickly blocked, and his comment deleted.

In the latest of the PAP government's spree on clamping down dissent, it has issued Dr Thum Ping Tjin and website New Naratif a POFMA correction order over an 8 May video about POFMA. The video, entitled “The Show with PJ Thum - Ep 8 - How bad laws are created and abused in Singapore (A POFMA case study)”, raised issues about the government's use of POFMA as a tool to silence criticisms against the government. Shooting itself in the face, the PAP government proceeded to invoke POFMA on Dr Thum's video.

SDP's Chee Soon Juan weighed in on censorship and democracy in Singapore after having watched a play. He claimed there's no freedom of speech here and hoped these youths can at least bring about change in future.

Ex-NMP Calvin Cheng thinks that the Government should stay out of making decisions on whether they should be funding art. This is especially since the government will receive backlash anyway - if it wants to fund, it has to come up with strict criteria but if it does not fund, it will be accused of censorship. What do you think?

Kiwi8, a popular moderator at Hardwarezone forum was forced to step down after a rabid PAP supporter complained that he had referred to Minister Shanmugam as scum in the past. The moderator bid a tearful goodbye to edmwers as he accepted the punishment. Some have wondered if this is part of greater censorship against netizens who do not have politically correct views.

Following dismal statistics showing that School of the Arts (SOTA) students do not pursue the arts after graduation, another incident has caused controversy among the student body and teachers of the school.