Today is April Fools Day and I am GLAD I DID NOT get many April Fools jokes/pranks as I personally DO NOT like the ideas of pulling some stunts, some badly conceived, to give someone a potential heart attack!
"Death threat for couple who organised petition for 'Lee Kuan Yew Day' - AsiaOne Apr 01, 2015
UPDATE (10.20PM): The website www.lkyday.com has been restored and the online petition is now re-opened.
SINGAPORE - A Singaporean couple who started an online petition for an annual public holiday to honour the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew have taken the websites offline after rumours circulated that the petition was a scam, reported local media. Mr John Lim is the the president of the Academy of Certified Counsellors and his wife, Madam Tan Lay Geok is the principal of the ACC School of Counselling and Psychology. They had started the online petition in their personal capacities.
The accusations went out of hand when Madam Tan received a death-threat via e-mail. The couple then decided to file a police report. The two websites www.lkyday.com and www.1923-2015.org had collected more than 1,600 signatures and contained the e-mail addresses, NRIC and telephone numbers of participants as well as that of Mr Lim and Madam Tan. The couple first initiated the online petition on March 29 but pulled their two websites down after an anonymous e-mail accusing them of breaching Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) went viral."
Is this an April Fools joke or what? I hope not.
Anyway, this is my take:
1. as long as the intention is good, go ahead and do it. In fact, I would have thought that not many Singaporeans will object to having a memorial day for Mr Lee Kuan Yew or in place of it a Founders Day holiday. The question becomes should we have more public holidays or not?;
2. putting 'death threat' against anyone IS very bad behaviours. Perhaps we STILL have VERY IMMATURE cyberspace users who SIMPLY cannot understand 'graceful engagement' in private and cyberspace. If this minority group of users continue to demonstrate lack of self-control, it is best that the laws be used on them firmly and in the most transparent way. If someone can type, he or she PROBABLY is not born with a mental handicap. There is NO EXCUSE for behaving badly and flouting the RULES and LAWS that are VERY CLEAR about 'online harassment';
3. as for the concerns on violating PDPA and that the petition could be a scam, it is reasonable to think so. YET, the detractors can just point that out if he or she or they did not want to engage the originator(s) directly, without resorting to putting up a 'death threat'. Seriously!
One more public holiday for Singaporeans. The government could have just check with the people and decide. YES?
"Death threat for couple who organised petition for 'Lee Kuan Yew Day' - AsiaOne Apr 01, 2015
UPDATE (10.20PM): The website www.lkyday.com has been restored and the online petition is now re-opened.
SINGAPORE - A Singaporean couple who started an online petition for an annual public holiday to honour the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew have taken the websites offline after rumours circulated that the petition was a scam, reported local media. Mr John Lim is the the president of the Academy of Certified Counsellors and his wife, Madam Tan Lay Geok is the principal of the ACC School of Counselling and Psychology. They had started the online petition in their personal capacities.
The accusations went out of hand when Madam Tan received a death-threat via e-mail. The couple then decided to file a police report. The two websites www.lkyday.com and www.1923-2015.org had collected more than 1,600 signatures and contained the e-mail addresses, NRIC and telephone numbers of participants as well as that of Mr Lim and Madam Tan. The couple first initiated the online petition on March 29 but pulled their two websites down after an anonymous e-mail accusing them of breaching Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) went viral."
Is this an April Fools joke or what? I hope not.
Anyway, this is my take:
1. as long as the intention is good, go ahead and do it. In fact, I would have thought that not many Singaporeans will object to having a memorial day for Mr Lee Kuan Yew or in place of it a Founders Day holiday. The question becomes should we have more public holidays or not?;
2. putting 'death threat' against anyone IS very bad behaviours. Perhaps we STILL have VERY IMMATURE cyberspace users who SIMPLY cannot understand 'graceful engagement' in private and cyberspace. If this minority group of users continue to demonstrate lack of self-control, it is best that the laws be used on them firmly and in the most transparent way. If someone can type, he or she PROBABLY is not born with a mental handicap. There is NO EXCUSE for behaving badly and flouting the RULES and LAWS that are VERY CLEAR about 'online harassment';
3. as for the concerns on violating PDPA and that the petition could be a scam, it is reasonable to think so. YET, the detractors can just point that out if he or she or they did not want to engage the originator(s) directly, without resorting to putting up a 'death threat'. Seriously!
One more public holiday for Singaporeans. The government could have just check with the people and decide. YES?
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