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Singapore Restricts Citizen-Blogger’s Rights

Posted in Culture, Democracy, Human Rights, Singapore, World News by Elliott Back on April 8th, 2006.

The Republic of Singapore is forbidding political podcasts during their elections. What kind of elections are those?

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To quote the primary source:

As a measure against the use of new Internet technologies during hustings in Singapore, Channel NewsAsia reported from a Parliamentary hearing on Monday that “Podcasting is not allowed during elections.”

Not allowing any kind of expression is contrary to the ideals of Democracy. It’s also strange that a government is in touch enough with cutting edge web 2.0 technology like blogging and podcasting to ban it, rather than encourage and foster its growth a medium for political discussion.

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