The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by kenneth on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:15AM (#25396673)

I wouldn't call Singapore a democracy. It's an authoritarian one-party state that happens to hold elections. These elections are always won by the same party.

The democracy index rates Singapore at 6.02/10. About 0.03 away from being a "hybrid regime" and currently rated a "flawed democracy." It's ranked as worse than places such as Ukraine (currently in a civil war), Thailand (run by a military dictatorship), etc.

Having been stuck in the lockdown they imposed earlier this year, which was widely unpopular with the city's residents and which lead to the biggest support for the opposition in the country's history, I would not at all call Singapore a democracy.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by kyriee on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:21AM (#25416520)

Canada has limits in free speech and seems to be doing just fine as a democracy. At least, it’s muuuuch better than the American one.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:45AM (#25397387)

Singapore is essentially an extremely well-run, technocratic police state.

Lovely place, but I definitely wouldn't want to live there.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by cr4zy on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:00PM (#25433675)

Interesting that Singapore also is the 4th least corrupt country per the Corruption Perceptions Index - one of the biggest discrepancies with the Democracy Index.

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