tell me about it

Dr L*ee BY assures me in Saturday’s paper that I don’t have to register my blog if I want to talk politicks.

Yay!

He says that they don’t allow politickal blogging because “once a story or rumor is started on the Internet, it is almost impossible to put it right.” He cites the example of one new P*AP candidate who was rumored on the Net of being Ab*ullah Ta*rmugi’s nephew.

“This is completely untrue,” says L*ee, “but how do we rebut it on the Internet and get all the blogs, bulletin boards and chatrooms to put out corrections to set this right?”

Aiyoh. Why so kancheong? This reminds me of the papers we wrote in Year One about how the P*AP retains the right to aggressively rebut all politicky articles and such in international publications, as well as shut them down in Singapore if need be - and they do and have (and will continue to do, from the look of it).

Granted, as our governing body they do have that right for that mode of control, but their excessiveness seems so paranoid. Must they really monitor every single blog post? Rebut every single dissenting voice? Curb every avenue of free expression? Why do they HAVE to rebut every blog and bulletin board and chatroom?

It just borders too much on over-anxiety and obsessive control to me. We’re very much still a nanny state, with citizens who must be spoonfed and babysat and who are not allowed to grow up and can’t be trusted to make informed decisions by themselves. In case the P*AP hasn’t realized it yet, they’re steadily alienating educated youth in Singapore to the point where I honestly want to stop caring.

They are the ones pushing us to our quiescent state of politickal apathy.