Singapore to regulate high traffic websites that report on Singapore
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#2I'm a Singaporean and I fucking hate this. In fact, I built getgom.com because our government has decided to ban porn as well.
And now.. THIS. Any Singaporean HNers out there, if you're up for it, as a programmer, I'm wanna build something to circumvent this. Holler if you're keen. Cheers.
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On another note, this is why whenever people say that Singapore is a fine place to start a business, I say thats probably because you don't "live LIVE" here. It's just another hub that you'll attempt to start up a business, and leave somewhat. Unless you come from a 3rd world/developing nation and come here to build wages. Other than that, I don't know many true blue Singaporeans that's actually happy with the state of things.
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#3Singapore isn't exactly huge. What's to stop someone from setting up Wimax in Johor Bahru (just across the border in Malaysia) and broadcasting the signal into Singapore?
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#5In related news, someone has setup a tumblr blog to parody this move http://simisaialsolicence.tumblr.com/
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#6Wrong way to make the front page of hackernews sigh
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#7Oops, the cool, tax-saving getaway is a fascist dictatorship. Who could have known.
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#8I'm a Singaporean and I fucking hate this. In fact, I built getgom.com because our government has decided to ban porn as well. And now.. THIS. Any Singaporean HNers out there, if you're up for it, as a programmer, I'm wanna build something to circumvent this. Holler if you're keen. Cheers. -- On another note, this is why whenever people say that Singapore is a fine place to start a business, I say thats probably beca…
If the regulations are about blocking websites using standard Internet censorship techniques akin to the Great Firewall of China, then it is relatively easy to circumvent (provided that Singapore doesn't implement that at a scale comparable to China). VPN, SSH server in foreign country, proxy, Tor etc should do the job.
But if the regulations are about monitoring, reviewing and controlling, say, local news reports before they are published on those websites, then there is nothing you can do, unfortunately.
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#9Singapore isn't exactly huge. What's to stop someone from setting up Wimax in Johor Bahru (just across the border in Malaysia) and broadcasting the signal into Singapore?
Wouldn't the Malaysians just shut that down? No point in unnecessarily antagonizing the Singaporean government.
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#10Honestly, with the hate-mongering, the amount of rumours dressed like news on these high-traffic websites flooded with so called keyboard-warriors, I actually welcome something to counter it... however...
Unfortunately it will be poorly implemented, and going to look like Chinas firewall.
I just wish instead of trying to spend money on silencing most of the bunch of morons who somehow got an audience on lies and rumours (most of the time) - they open up to more transparency and would somehow counter most of the bs articles.
They like to call themselves "alternative media" and everyone else are "politically correct corrupt media". Sigh.
ps Does anyone remember the series of images comparing George Orwell with someone else regarding the overload of bad/junk information? ds