1. "Boxing: Mayweather beats Pacquiao by decision - AFP May 03, 2015"
One of the stupidest acts by human kind to watch 2 fighters beating each other up for US$300m of revenue and prize money of ten of millions for each when there are poverties even in Las Vegas, the venue where the fight was held. YES. YES. I am the sour grape! ;-)
2. "Kathmandu, Nepal Earthquake updates - KATHMANDU - The death toll from the disaster crossed 7,000 on Sunday." Yes. Not forgetting these people will NOT care a 'shxt' with the Pacman vs. Mayweather bout!!
3. The REAL Deal: "Socio-political website The Real Singapore goes offline after orders by MDA - AsiaOne May 03, 2015
SINGAPORE - Access to socio-political website The Real Singapore (TRS) has been disabled on Sunday evening after the Media Authority of Singapore (MDA) suspended the statutory class licence of its administrators to operate.
MDA announced the unprecedented move on Sunday 2pm and gave the administrators of the website a six-hour window to disable TRS on its online and social media platforms. It also stipulated that the administrators had to cease posting any new articles immediately.
Five hours later and the website was taken down. Users were directed to a page with the message: "The Real Singapore has been ordered to disable access to all our online services by the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore."
TRS administrators Ai Takagi and Yang Kaiheng, who are Australian and Singaporean respectively, were found to have contravened the Internet Code of Practice, MDA said.
Yang, a 26 Singaporean student, and his girlfriend Takagi, 22, are currently facing seven counts of publishing seditious articles on TRS and the TRS Facebook page, and one of failing to produce documents to a police officer.
Yang and Takagi have seven days to provide information to MDA regarding TRS's operations and to make representations as to why their class licence should not be cancelled.
"The MDA believes this editorial strategy of deceiving readers and doctoring articles was an attempt to increase traffic to TRS, and thus boost advertising revenue. "In so doing, TRS, including its two foreign editors, were seeking to make profit at the expense of Singapore's public interest and national harmony." MDA said that Yang and Takagi have refused to disclose how much advertising revenue they have been collecting from running TRS.
MDA added that Yang and Takagi were out of the jurisdiction of the Broadcasting Act as they were running their operations from outside Singapore. "However, since December, the two of them have been running their operations from Singapore, bringing them within the jurisdiction of the Broadcasting Act." The TRS administrators are not allowed to resume operations under any other name, the statement said."
This is the REAL DEAL for the people who run and profit from the running of The Real Singapore! YOU CANNOT do that without a consequence!!
Lessons for me are:
1. as I had repeated elsewhere in the past, IF you report IRRESPONSIBLY, you have to face the consequence. MORE SO if you are fabricating stories to profit! MORE SO if you are inciting hatreds and conflicts between different people, races, nationalities and whatever that WILL de-stabilized a nation!;
2. is this muzzling of 'freedom of press and speeches'? Well, maybe in some so-called liberal societies where they, or just a small vocal minority, care more about 'freedom of speeches' and NOT 'responsible freedom of speeches', this may be a case of muzzling of 'freedom of speeches'. BUT NOT for me! IF you lied, if you fabricate untruth, you are in the wrong! No amount of clever arguing and twisting and hiding behind the shield of 'freedom of speeches' can let you off the hook! It is as simple as that!;
3. it is important to learn from this case, WHERE are the boundaries of 'you are responsible for what had been published on your website'? Do news website administrators have to be responsible for ALL articles and comments posted in 'your website'? Are the news websites administrators legally obliged to 'censor' any irresponsible and insensitive comments? If so, can any administrators ever achieve it humanly without limiting postings severely?
Hopefully, factual reporting of certain unpleasant and potentially controversial matters are acceptable and welcome. Hopefully this case will not lead the authorities to become paranoid and ban any controversial issues from been reported, discussed and debated as long as the facts are correct!
Shall we say another NEW chapter has unfolded for 'responsible social media' development in Singapore? And for the BETTER?
One of the stupidest acts by human kind to watch 2 fighters beating each other up for US$300m of revenue and prize money of ten of millions for each when there are poverties even in Las Vegas, the venue where the fight was held. YES. YES. I am the sour grape! ;-)
2. "Kathmandu, Nepal Earthquake updates - KATHMANDU - The death toll from the disaster crossed 7,000 on Sunday." Yes. Not forgetting these people will NOT care a 'shxt' with the Pacman vs. Mayweather bout!!
3. The REAL Deal: "Socio-political website The Real Singapore goes offline after orders by MDA - AsiaOne May 03, 2015
SINGAPORE - Access to socio-political website The Real Singapore (TRS) has been disabled on Sunday evening after the Media Authority of Singapore (MDA) suspended the statutory class licence of its administrators to operate.
MDA announced the unprecedented move on Sunday 2pm and gave the administrators of the website a six-hour window to disable TRS on its online and social media platforms. It also stipulated that the administrators had to cease posting any new articles immediately.
Five hours later and the website was taken down. Users were directed to a page with the message: "The Real Singapore has been ordered to disable access to all our online services by the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore."
TRS administrators Ai Takagi and Yang Kaiheng, who are Australian and Singaporean respectively, were found to have contravened the Internet Code of Practice, MDA said.
Yang, a 26 Singaporean student, and his girlfriend Takagi, 22, are currently facing seven counts of publishing seditious articles on TRS and the TRS Facebook page, and one of failing to produce documents to a police officer.
Yang and Takagi have seven days to provide information to MDA regarding TRS's operations and to make representations as to why their class licence should not be cancelled.
"The MDA believes this editorial strategy of deceiving readers and doctoring articles was an attempt to increase traffic to TRS, and thus boost advertising revenue. "In so doing, TRS, including its two foreign editors, were seeking to make profit at the expense of Singapore's public interest and national harmony." MDA said that Yang and Takagi have refused to disclose how much advertising revenue they have been collecting from running TRS.
MDA added that Yang and Takagi were out of the jurisdiction of the Broadcasting Act as they were running their operations from outside Singapore. "However, since December, the two of them have been running their operations from Singapore, bringing them within the jurisdiction of the Broadcasting Act." The TRS administrators are not allowed to resume operations under any other name, the statement said."
This is the REAL DEAL for the people who run and profit from the running of The Real Singapore! YOU CANNOT do that without a consequence!!
Lessons for me are:
1. as I had repeated elsewhere in the past, IF you report IRRESPONSIBLY, you have to face the consequence. MORE SO if you are fabricating stories to profit! MORE SO if you are inciting hatreds and conflicts between different people, races, nationalities and whatever that WILL de-stabilized a nation!;
2. is this muzzling of 'freedom of press and speeches'? Well, maybe in some so-called liberal societies where they, or just a small vocal minority, care more about 'freedom of speeches' and NOT 'responsible freedom of speeches', this may be a case of muzzling of 'freedom of speeches'. BUT NOT for me! IF you lied, if you fabricate untruth, you are in the wrong! No amount of clever arguing and twisting and hiding behind the shield of 'freedom of speeches' can let you off the hook! It is as simple as that!;
3. it is important to learn from this case, WHERE are the boundaries of 'you are responsible for what had been published on your website'? Do news website administrators have to be responsible for ALL articles and comments posted in 'your website'? Are the news websites administrators legally obliged to 'censor' any irresponsible and insensitive comments? If so, can any administrators ever achieve it humanly without limiting postings severely?
Hopefully, factual reporting of certain unpleasant and potentially controversial matters are acceptable and welcome. Hopefully this case will not lead the authorities to become paranoid and ban any controversial issues from been reported, discussed and debated as long as the facts are correct!
Shall we say another NEW chapter has unfolded for 'responsible social media' development in Singapore? And for the BETTER?
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