singaporean bloggers kena-ed the sedition act
I’m going to try my hands at copying-n-pasting.
Via Channel News Asia:
Two bloggers charged under Sedition Act for racist remarks
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsiaSINGAPORE : For the first time in Singapore, two bloggers have been charged under the Sedition Act for making racist remarks.
They are 25-year-old Nicholas Lim Yew and 27-year-old Benjamin Koh Song Huat.
A subordinate court was told that both their blogs had content that cast aspersions on the Malay community.
This sparked off a heated discussion online.
Both men are out on bail of S$10,000 each.
The case will be heard again on September 21.
A person is deemed to have committed an offence under the Sedition Act if he does, or conspires with any person to do, any act which has a seditious tendency.
It is also an offence to utter any seditious words or to print, publish, sell, distribute, reproduce or import any seditious publication.
Among others, a seditious tendency is defined under the Act as one to raise discontent or disaffection among the citizens or residents and to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore.
First time offenders can be fined up to S$5,000 or jailed up to three years or both fined and jailed.
For subsequent offences, they can be jailed up to five years and have their seditious publications forfeited and destroyed.
Not too bad, isn’t it?
So kids, today we learnt 5 things:
#1: There is something called ‘freedom of speech’
#2: It is probably not what you imagined
#3: Because it comes with social responsibility
#4: So
#5: Don’t fuck your rights up.
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From Suanie, we’ve learnt that:
1. Copy and Paste is good
2. Always check the wiki for terms Freedom of Speech
3. Suanie’s the Great
cpy and paste is evil !!!!!!!
Copy and paste if it helps you get the point across better, i guess. But it makes sense to add something original to it.
Otherwise, just linking to the source works fine (and you’re free from the abovementioned liabilities, hehe).
Were the 2 guys named above well known bloggers, or did someone point the golden finger…
Oh no….Suanie copy and pasted….
You let me down….
frostier: you want to marry me, don’t you?
Ka-soons: it’s not when I am the one doing it.. bwahahaha!
totoro: depends on what source mah… I don’t do it so much anyway
No idea about the two guys. I googled but to no avail. The Singapore blog community is so closely-knit and their publishing laws and what goes under the sedition act seem to be slightly different from ours. Could be the finger.
8555: Oh issit? Since when I let you up?
i wonder if they’ve read xx’s blog yet.
ngehe.
alah, but for s’pore only.
cis berdebah!
Hahahaha..i like your ‘lessons’ bit down there. Quite sad about the freedom of speech though. I don’t know what happened coz i’ve been pretty outdated with the Singaporean blogosphere.
Will we ever see ?? v. XX one day? =P
who gives a shit. here, have a pint
I don’t undersatnd #4 So
So what???
Me confused! (You know how easy that is to do Suaniiieeee!)
Sorry, that should be ‘I don’t understand’
Forgive my hyperdyslexia today. I’m living off two hours sleep!
This is awesome stuffs. Maybe our gomen could go around pressing charges against these ‘free speech’ numbwits. That way, we get to teach people responsible writting and the gomen can make extra money
C&P AM TEH SUCKS!
Freedom of speech??
Hmmm.. Reminds me of ISA
I am nowhere near looking forward to authorities paying attention to blogs
Stupid men. Hello, you are in Singapore, land of NO CHEWING GUM. Am a little sorry for them but a little scared as well.
Could I be hauled to jail for making fun of Samy Vellu’s hair? Hmmm
More details are now available from TODAYonline…
the hair part is not racist… it’s just plain ugly and funny. this is not seditious; if you’d poll the streets, I bet ya I can make it a fact
Or how we now learn that stupidity no matter what people believe doesn’t just get away with whatever is on their mind.
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