The media in Singapore: Zip It
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The media in Singapore: Zip It
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Re: The media in Singapore: Zip It
#2Quite the neutral title. We now understand your disdain for Singapore. The punishment is definitely harsh.
It is well-known that Singapore has quite the dictatorial side to it, but it is a fantastic country when you look at where it was only 40 years ago. A country with the total area of a city with absolutely no natural resources, no official language, and a large variety of ethnicities i.e. not homogenous like say SK. It took a lot of sacrifice to get it where it is today.
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#3What a show of recalcitrance. You could probably bring up this issue in conversation and use it as a free speech litmus test. I am reminded of this comment [http://lesswrong.com/lw/kat/the_benefits_of_closedmindedness...]:
2-26% of Americans thinks gay people should not be allowed to speak
3-36% of Americans think that atheists like me (& 79.2% of LW) are better seen than heard
7-49% think militarists should shut up
16-48% of Americans disagree with free speech for racists
16-75% claim Muslims should not be permitted to preach against America
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#5Quite the neutral title. We now understand your disdain for Singapore. The punishment is definitely harsh. It is well-known that Singapore has quite the dictatorial side to it, but it is a fantastic country when you look at where it was only 40 years ago. A country with the total area of a city with absolutely no natural resources, no official language, and a large variety of ethnicities i.e. not homogenous like say…
"Sacrifice" is sort of ambiguous, isn't it? LHL working late a few evenings would be one thing, but his government locking this kid up for years, for a cartoon, is another. He's 16 though, so I wonder whether that would meet his obligation for compulsory service? It would be a real bummer to come out of two years of reeducation camp, and then have to do two more years of essentially the same thing.
Re: The media in Singapore: Zip It
#6Quite the neutral title. We now understand your disdain for Singapore. The punishment is definitely harsh. It is well-known that Singapore has quite the dictatorial side to it, but it is a fantastic country when you look at where it was only 40 years ago. A country with the total area of a city with absolutely no natural resources, no official language, and a large variety of ethnicities i.e. not homogenous like say…
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Re: The media in Singapore: Zip It
#7What a show of recalcitrance. You could probably bring up this issue in conversation and use it as a free speech litmus test. I am reminded of this comment [ http://lesswrong.com/lw/kat/the_benefits_of_closedmindedness... ]: 2-26% of Americans thinks gay people should not be allowed to speak 3-36% of Americans think that atheists like me (& 79.2% of LW) are better seen than heard 7-49% think militarists should shut u…
Surely those aren't confidence intervals coming from a place like lesswrong.
(also "16-75%"? Seriously?)
Re: The media in Singapore: Zip It
#8What a show of recalcitrance. You could probably bring up this issue in conversation and use it as a free speech litmus test. I am reminded of this comment [ http://lesswrong.com/lw/kat/the_benefits_of_closedmindedness... ]: 2-26% of Americans thinks gay people should not be allowed to speak 3-36% of Americans think that atheists like me (& 79.2% of LW) are better seen than heard 7-49% think militarists should shut u…
Surely those aren't confidence intervals coming from a place like lesswrong. (also "16-75%"? Seriously?)
The data comes from a blog on Discover[1], which is itself an analysis of the data from the General Social Survey[2].
The 16-75 is because the blog author groups the answers based on the score in the Wordsum test by the responder. People with higher scores are less keen on censoring others.
[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/intelligence-...
Re: The media in Singapore: Zip It
#9Quite the neutral title. We now understand your disdain for Singapore. The punishment is definitely harsh. It is well-known that Singapore has quite the dictatorial side to it, but it is a fantastic country when you look at where it was only 40 years ago. A country with the total area of a city with absolutely no natural resources, no official language, and a large variety of ethnicities i.e. not homogenous like say…
The end justifies the means?
Re: The media in Singapore: Zip It
#10Quite the neutral title. We now understand your disdain for Singapore. The punishment is definitely harsh. It is well-known that Singapore has quite the dictatorial side to it, but it is a fantastic country when you look at where it was only 40 years ago. A country with the total area of a city with absolutely no natural resources, no official language, and a large variety of ethnicities i.e. not homogenous like say…
It isn't clear to me how not making fun of Christians, or the ruling prime minister would benefit a the country - it seems more like petty people using their positions for personal gain, which is exactly what you would expect from a dictator.