YPAP member Sear Hock Rong wants authorities to take “irresponsible” netizens to task

[Watchman]

YPAP member Sear Hock Rong wants authorities to take “irresponsible” netizens to task

Temasek Review

Unfazed by the negative publicity surrounding his business dealings with Eunos grassroots organizations, YPAP member Sear Hock Rong has launched another tirade at the online community again.

In his latest blog posting, Mr Sear attacked the Temasek Review for being an “anti-government” site:

“Over the past few months, I saw for myself how some websites resorted to criticising the Government and individuals to increase their readership. Temasek Review is one such website where articles written were anti-Government and disgustingly one-sided. Most of their readers prefer to hide behind nicknames and launch personal attacks against others. Nasty and biased remarks made by these netizens are easily found in every article, often full of anger and hatred.”

The Temasek Review has offered Mr Sear ample opportunities to explain himself on our site and even offered to sponsor a public forum for him to clear his name which he had declined.

He also took a snipe at Alex Tan who lodged a report to the People’s Association about possible conflicts of interest in his company doing business with several Eunos grassroots organizations where he served:

“He (Alex Tan) also mentioned many times on Facebook that he will leave Singapore if the People’s Action Party wins the coming General Elections by 50%. Many Singaporeans are hoping this man who was charged with ‘general disobedience’ during NS will not go back on his words.”

The People’s Association has since “cleared” Mr Sear of any improprieties in the business transactions between his company and Eunos Grassroots Organisations.

It is quite obvious from his posting that Mr Sear is still feeling very bitter about the entire fracas. Had he taken the trouble to clarify himself on his blog or on our site, none of this would have happened. Instead, he peeved off many netizens with his arrogance, insensitivity and brashness by challenging them to report him to the authorities.

Mr Sear ended his article by calling on the authorities to adopt a more proactive stance in monitoring the internet:

“Perhaps, the authorities should start to take a more active role to investigate those radical websites and take irresponsible netizens to task.”

It is most disappointing that YPAP members have to resort to hiding behind the authorities whenever they are criticized in cyberspace.

Another YPAP member Eric How caused a stir lately by making a police report over a non-existent impersonation under the “advice” of YPAP Chairman Teo Ser Luck.

Since YPAP members seem unable to take the heat in online discussions and debates, they should simply just quit cyberspace altogether and stop putting up the facade that they are interested in engaging netizens.

 

[halsey02]

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What the netizens should do, is to track Sear Hock Rong movement quietly & not engaged him insilly lambasting on the internet. Not ever day a persons who walk, never fall. When that fall comes along, the netizens can post all his misdeeds FACTUALLY on the internet, and see if he squeal.

One have to fight, 'fire with fire'...since he such an arrogant , pompous...B@#$#@#d!! ??

 

[Zhou Tai]

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One have to fight, 'fire with fire'...since he such an arrogant , pompous...B@#$#@#d!! ??

This fat ugly pig has to thank his lucky stars that his funeral blankets are providing porky nightmares for the dead.

 

[halsey02]

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This fat ugly pig has to thank his lucky stars that his funeral blankets are providing porky nightmares for the dead.

That is why I say, we prove to SEAR HOCK RONG we are responsible netizen, we quietly collect all his links, who knows the company that provides the funeral blankets may be his relative or whatever...

But do the RC gets a few quotes before deciding..?? and so forth...connect the dots, get the facts...

publish the truth...and see if he can say "dare"!...or is he going to say the netizens are irresponsible...

we are responsible for the truth...dare he be truthful?

 

[Watchman]

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Those who think they are YPAP . Think that they can behave like mini-gods !

 

[methink]

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Ex-ISD chief‏ : The Straits Times is "trash"

http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-straits-times-above-astroturfing.html
Friday, April 2, 2010

Is the Straits Times above Astroturfing?

This is what is called astroturfing by the mainstream media, especially the Straits Times. The Straits Times in its editorial today was nauseatingly sycophantic in calling on the government to "turf out of consideration astroturfed views when determining policies".

But does the Straits Times genuinely believe that its propagandist organ is above astroturfing? The editorial described astroturfing as a manufactured product masquerading as the real thing: fake mail, phone call or digital campaigns orchestrated to appear like spontaneous "grassroots" responses. Is not the Straits Times answering to this description in its pro-government propaganda to the exclusion of constructive opposition and concerned critics' voices?

The Straits Times seems to be aping the Prime Minister in disparaging online criticisms of the government as fakes orchestrated to appear like spontaneous grassroots responses. Is not the echoing of his master's voice cringingly a form a astroturfing? Right-thinking Singaporeans have seen through the obsequiousness of the Straits Times. There are regular readers of the Straits Times who are digusted with its spineless character and give up reading the trash in the paper going instead to the internet for their local and international news.

It is precisely because of the dearth of genuine news about the political and financial mismanagements of the government which the mainstream media are covering up that there is a healthy growth of the new media to counter this journalistic abberation of the mainstream media. For example it was the new media which provided the news of the recent heavy financial loss of over US $1 billion by the Government Investment Corporation (GIC). True to their obsequious character, there was not a word in the mainstream media about this GIC financial disaster to the public. Although the public were apprised by the new media, there was very little they could do with no accountability by the "democratic" government. Would the Straits Times describe the dramatic disclosure by the new media of the financial loss of GIC as astroturfing?

Hovering over the mainstream media like a sword of Damocles is a body called the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). It is hardly a benevolent organ but a tightly-organised body that supervises closely any piece of pro-government propaganda that goes out from the mainstream media. Woe betides any exuberant journalist who does not toe the line. The next thing he knows is that he will find his rice-bowl dancing (a Chinese slang for dismissal). To ensure absolute obedience to its draconian policy, the government has installed a former deputy prime minister, who is also the government spin doctor, at the head of SPH. So how can one expect anything but astroturfing from the mainstream media, especially the bombastic Straits Times.

 

[methink]

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So who is to punish the MSM for dishing out lies?


http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

The Prime Minister's Conundrum

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is reported to have voiced his disdain as to the authenticity of the new media, among other things, at a dialogue with about 100 so-called active contributors to the government feedback arm Reaching Everyone for Active Citizen (REACH) yesterday. He calls it "astroturfing". As the name suggests REACH could not be anything but a docile body and the 100 active contributors could best be described as a captive audience. It could have made a difference if it had included other discerning Singaporeans.

The Prime Minister has pompously cited the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) saga last year to prove his erroneous contention of online complicity to lure government's involvement to back one side against the other in the leadership tussle. The AWARE saga was a humdrum association domestic quarrel hardly of any national significance and if the government could be duped by so-called online deception into taking sides, then it could go to show the quality of government leadership or the lack of it.

Perhaps it could have occurred to the lucid mind of the Prime Minister the impetus that led to the evolution of the new media in Singapore. Every right-thinking Singaporean is aware that the sycophantic main stream media, epecially the egregious Straits Times, will only disseminate government propaganda and not any dissenting thesis inimical or unflattering to the government. There is the omnipotent Singapore Press Holdings, at the head of which is a government spin doctor, which monitors closely every piece of propaganda that the main stream media dish out to the public. The current news report of the Prime Minister's salvo on the new media is a typical example.

Can you blame the pent-up netizens for opening up an alternative media channel to disseminate the truth about the iniquities of the PAP government? The Prime Minister will be living in a fool's paradise if he thinks that their online crticisms of the government and its ministers are colluded fakes and are not given serious attention by discerning Singaporeans. The Barisan National in Malaysia is a good example for pooh-poohing their netizens and suffered a severe setback in their last general election when they were hit by a tsunami evidently masterminded by the online citizens. This could not have failed to wake up the PAP leadership to the possibility of a similar tsunami hitting the PAP in the next General Election in Singapore. The PAP leadership was seen to be scrambling to clutch at a straw by sending their seasoned war-horse, the narcissistic Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, to Malaysia under the guise of a fraternal visit to suss out the cause of the Barisan National election debacle as a lesson for the PAP.

The Prime Minister is an astute politician and he ignores the pernicious influence (pernicious to the PAP) of the online citizens at his peril.

 

[peterlth]

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Hee hee heee ....

 

[Watchman]

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WTF he is looking like that ? Eating too much Pork ? Another Pork lover ?

 

[halsey02]

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WTF he is looking like that ? Eating too much Pork ? Another Pork lover ?[/B]

No!, you eat too much pork, you won't look like that, must be frankurter lover, must have licked many People's Affordable Party brand Frankfurters and thereafter in delusion shouts, "MEMBER"

 

[Watchman]

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No!, you eat too much pork, you won't look like that, must be frankurter lover, must have licked many People's Affordable Party brand Frankfurters and thereafter in delusion shouts, "MEMBER"

lol hee hee.

 

[Alamaking]

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I'm not siding that ugly Seah, but i personally agree with him that Temasek Review is a fucked up website, both 154th and TR news are all 1 sided, you have to judge yourself to see what is right and wrong.

I repeat again, TR is fucked up!!! :oIo::oIo::oIo:

I still waiting for TR to sue Seah as it claimed few months ago, NATO!!!!, pui!!!!!