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Re:Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assem... by tootie on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:39AM (#18824288)
It's not just that it's wealthy, the people are pretty free there. I visited recently and there's nothing there that indicates it's anything other than a first-world democracy. Media and internet are not censored. It's socially conservative compared to Western Europe or the US, but not draconian at all. The authoritarian streak is there, but it's not pervasive like China.
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Re:Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assem... by denzil_correa on Friday January 04, 2019 @10:06AM (#18824476)
> Media and internet are not censored.

Singapore has strong censorship mechanisms for the media and Internet. It ranks 151 on the Freedom of Press Index [0].

[0] https://rsf.org/en/singapore

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Re:Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assem... by tootie on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:04AM (#18824960)
What I meant is that they don't firewall the entire internet the way China does. You can read any international news or social media. Their censorship regime is purely domestic.
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Re:Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assem... by ponyfleisch on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:30AM (#18830472)
> Their censorship regime is purely domestic.

They block:

-pornography

-ashley madison

-an admittedly very questionable "news" site targeted at Singapore but operated from the outside

Further, the sale of malaysian newspapers is banned, as is private ownership of satellite TV equipment.

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