The worse thing about this is that unlike China, the PAP spends an inordinate amount of time and money on monitoring its citizens on the internet. the fact that this multi million dollar salary minister is wasting his time commenting on this already tells u what a piss poor way it is to spend taxpayers money. Not to mention all the pro-PAP forumners here, paid to attack anti PAP forumners and to defend their masterts. Plus the room full of MHA idiots that are trolling the blogosphere looking for people to prosecute, etc. Not to mention all the hardware and software they have bought from the Israelis and the americans to monitor us.
I am really amused at the way PAP throwing out threats after threats against Singaporeans on the net. Singapore may be a small country but it seems that the amount of FEARFUL threats thrown at the relatively small number of Singaporean netizens has really gone out of proportions.
Even communist countries like China do not throw such threats around. PAP has claimed that they want to "evolve" in this new era of New Media but inherently, it is apparent to all of us that such "paternalistic" nature of the way it threw out threats after threats has demonstrated that PAP is very much outdated and backward. Even the Chinese Communist Party has evolved and they actually made use of their netizens to effect a close check on their ranks and files!
I have not heard any constant nagging threats thrown by the Chinese Communist Party over the various attacks thrown at CCP and its leaders. Well, yes, they may have formed a huge internet brigade to counter some of the bad mouthing but in a more general sense, Chinese netizens have not stopped nagging at their government.
Why? It has been proven that such nagging noise from the ground by these netizens could be very powerful when it comes to Nationalistic aim of defending that Nation's interests against foreign countries. It seems that the Chinese people is both capable to critic their own government as well as defending their Nationlistic rights when they face foreign threats.
What is more intriguing in the following CNA report is that it mentions that nobody is interested to give feedback even with the PAP government whole effort to solicit them from Singaporeans on the net! What does that really mean? It means that they young Singaporean netizens are either apathetic towards the country under PAP or that they would rather nag at the PAP government at their own will instead of helping them in any ways they can!
What does that really mean? PAP's paternalistic style of National education plus threats have failed miserably in lecturing the young Singaporeans into patriotic citizens! The more threats they throw at young Singaporean netizens, the more defiant we will be!
Fear and patriotism <span style="font-weight:bold;">DO NOT MIX </span>at all. You may try to maintain your total grip on power by using all means of fearful methods but in the long run, you will definitely lose trust of your people and your power totally. These have happened repeatedly over the centuries whereby Ancient dynasties boom and died.
There is one common saying, <span style="font-weight:bold;">it is all in the mind.</span> True in this instance that no matter how PAP has claimed that they are "open" or "light touch" or "engaging the New Media", the fundamental mindset of being rigid, outdated and paternalistic in them are really showing and taken over their deeds. It is no wonder nobody on the Net take them seriously in what they say or claim to do for the good of the Nation. This is explicitly shown by the lack of participation of their so call "feedback" process executed on the Net.
Sincerity of this regime is being graded near ZERO after many years of observations of how PAP government just WAYANG away on the NET by paying lip service on feedback collection. And how could they try to build up their credibility on the Net when the tightly controlled media keeps pounding on the credibility of the Netizens? It is just like calling out names at a group of people but in the end, you try to "engage" them for views! Since you have already labeled them as "not credible" and worse, ministers keep throwing threats at them, why would anyone believes you and your sincerity in "engaging" them for their view? Couldn't the multi-million dollars annual salaried ministers understand such simple logic?
Goh Meng Seng
Ah Seng! You better believe the pappies can act on their threats! In the 90s, I heard they got a platoon of special SBA unit to surf the net to block out pornos and .............boy did they succeed big time!!! LOL!......maybe you may find the 30 of this outfit still masturbating with their eyes popping out of their skulls in the IMH nowadays.
Good luck to your next move in the coming GE.
Regards,
DOM
Ah Seng! You better believe the pappies can act on their threats! In the 90s, I heard they got a platoon of special SBA unit to surf the net to block out pornos and .............boy did they succeed big time!!! LOL!......maybe you may find the 30 of this outfit still masturbating with their eyes popping out of their skulls in the IMH nowadays.
Good luck to your next move in the coming GE.
Regards,
DOM
There's no way one can respect VIVIAN Bala.(Is that a GIRL's name or what?) Especially coming from someone who said $330 per month is more than enough to take care of the poor. He wont be getting my vote, that's for sure!!!!!
Now he confuses me.
Hasn't Starits Times etc have been saying that online web postings are rubbish and have no bearing on public opinion etc? Then why is he taking this soseriously? Afterall when everyone knows it is just cock that are being posted, just leave them alone and the cock will be old cock and cannot stand!
The more he comes to stir the online cock, the more powderful is the effect on the erections! Why is ministar even bothered with nonsensical rubbish being posted, and most of the populance don't even give shit about?!
maybe he, like us, doesn't believed in the 144th bullshits too? LOL...
If you want to persecute some Singaporean who wrote something when he's in the US, then you better file charges in the US and not in Singapore. After all, when Singaporeans are in a foreign country- any foreign countries, its not Singapore law that they follow; its the country they reside in which they follow.
so the pornos today are still being blocked out??? you sure about this???