mercoledì, settembre 28, 2005
:: blogging woes ::in this country where notices have to be put to tell pple they would be fined $500 for littering, or for eating on public transport... or where gum used to be banned and laws against high-rise litter have been made, i'm in no way surprised that bloggers are being subjected to internet surveillance and that legal action is being taken against some.
frankly speaking, i think a lot of all these laws are tosh. singapore on the whole seems to be made up of adults who've never grown up. (hah, and they expect us to reproduce, when our maturity equals that of a kid) what i can't get is, why do singaporeans have to be threatened, cajoled and even beaten (caning) in order to get them to do the right things? aren't we human? aren't we supposed to have a BRAIN?
perhaps we don't, afterall, the the gov's been holding our hands step by step through life - CPF, medisave, medishield, eldershield... all kinds of policies designed to take care of us, to the extent of moulding our opinions.
i'm not saying that what the government is doing is bad, in fact, without it, we might not have progressed that rapidly, ya? what i feel is that singapore has reached a certain maturity in terms of economic stability and governance... note how they're promoting culture these days? we definitely need to develop more in terms of culture, societal aspects, harmony and all that. but all these CANNOT be enforced by laws or achieved by threats, it's only through giving the people more freedom that we achieve this.
recently, there's so much talk about being responsible in what we're blogging about. this i fully agree with. but what i cannot fathom is why people in positions of power have to come down so hard upon feckless, feather-brained, filled-with-angst adolescents, who just treat the whole world as their enemy. heh. it's really a comical situation. it's overkill. i don't see how suspending students is a fair punishment for writing certain defamatory comments about the school or the teacher. afterall, they're in school to receive an education, and they should be appropriately educated about the responsibilities of blogging instead of being shut off at home, sulking and rebellious, and eventually returning to school nursing grudges. mission to educate accomplished? i doubt so. in fact, it sounds more like petty revenge on the part of the school/teacher.
i'm pretty sure NUS or perhaps the fac would soon be monitoring our blogs (if they haven't already been doing so), it makes me wonder whether i should start an anonymous kind of blog, like what many others have done. i'm sure if there're no proper guidelines and proper 'punishment' for pple who make defamatory comments online, they'll soon be nothing on the net, but faceless people making defamatory comments. mission to educate sgreans to blog with responsbility accomplished? i doubt so.
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1 Comments:
Soon they'll be raiding homes to seize personal diaries. These God-wannabes are aiming for a conformist society - I could use another word that begins also with the 3rd letter in the alphabet, but then they'll probably haul my ass off to jail for typing something they teach in Sec 2 anyway.
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