Our very first post! Well, the gals, Chole, Surekha and I will be posting nidbits of interesting articles, stats, findings etc on internet filering in Asia periodically and we will be discussing our thoughts on them.. Its kinda like an experient to see how much of information is actually filtered in Asia, how much do we, Asians, actually see and read on the internet.. (I know for one, that pornographic sites is heavily regulated in SIngapore)
To put things rather crudely, internet filtering is simply a euphemism for internet censorship. Will it might not be prevalent in the western civilization, it is pretty common here in Singapore… The recent China-Tibet debacle as well as the Mynmar incident that occured a few months back are all haunting reminders of not believing everything that you read online..
So the 3 gals shall start posting really soon and see what interesting results we derive…
-grace-
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May 21, 2008 at 11:17 pm
sy
I didn’t know that porn sites are heavily regulated in singapore. That’s most interesting indeed. I do know that under Singapore law, there is a list of 100 restricted websites that the ISPs are supposed to prevent access to. According to an authority on the subject, it is an expression of Singapore’s disapproval for such like-minded websites. So, outside of these 100 websites, are the rest really ‘heavily regulated’?