Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state
by Barrin92 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:34PM
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activist arrests happen in South Korea as well. The country has a national security law that gives the government rights to take action against anything perceived as 'anti-government' action. Advocacy of communism or voicing recognition of the North is illegal and every so often lands people in jail
Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state
by coldtea on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:15PM
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>I think this is a false equivalence. TFA mentions a democracy activist who was imprisoned for 21 days because of a small, non violent protest on a subway
Things like that, and worse, have happened time and again in the US too...
I think this is a false equivalence. TFA mentions a democracy activist who was imprisoned for 21 days because of a small, non violent protest on a subway. He had been previously arrested for criticizing the judiciary in Singapore.
Unless I'm mistaken, you would not be arrested for either of these acts in South Korea or Japan. They are both imperfect, but in some important ways more free.